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Mindspeed(R) and Excelocity Collaborate to Deliver Integrated Carrier Access VoIP Solutions
[September 02, 2008]

Mindspeed(R) and Excelocity Collaborate to Deliver Integrated Carrier Access VoIP Solutions


(Marketwire Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) NEWPORT BEACH, CA, September 2 / MARKET WIRE/ --

Mindspeed Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: MSPD), a leading supplier of semiconductor solutions for network

infrastructure applications, today announced that Excelocity, a developer
of embedded gateway solutions, has integrated its carrier-class XL-Gateway
Framework software development kit with Mindspeed's Comcerto 300 Series
access processors to accelerate signaling and call control application
development for carrier access voice-over-IP (VoIP) gateways.

Combining Mindspeed's Comcerto VoIP system-on-chip and media-processing
software with Excelocity's application development framework provides
telecommunications and enterprise equipment vendors with highly scalable
hardware and software reference designs to rapidly develop IP-based
multiservice access nodes (MSANs), IP-digital subscriber access
multiplexers (IP-DSLAMs), multi-tenant units/multi-dwelling units
(MTU/MDUs), IP-private branch exchanges (IP-PBXs) and multimedia routers.

"The growth of next-generation network (NGN) VoIP subscribers will
accelerate substantially over the next five years, both through migration
from legacy telephone networks and the addition of new subscribers in
developing regions," said Greg Collins, vice president of IP telephony
Carrier & Set-top Box Market Research with the Dell'Oro Group. "From 2008
to 2012, over 260 million traditional telephone subscribers are forecasted
to connect through IP-based NGN media gateways deployed in the access
infrastructure."

"We are excited to add Excelocity as an OpenMind? development partner,"
said Kurt Michel, director of marketing for carrier VoIP products at
Mindspeed.

"The ability of Excelocity's call-control framework to easily integrate
third-party signaling protocol stacks such as SIP with customer-specific
software is a perfect complement for our Comcerto 300 Series family.
Through our collaboration, we now offer our joint customers all of the
elements and expertise necessary to implement a successful media gateway
solution on a single Comcerto 300 processor."

The Excelocity XL-Gateway Framework significantly reduces product
development costs and time to market, from years to months, with a modular,
highly scalable architecture with high-level APIs for call, media and OAMP
control. Available for both Linux and VxWorks platforms, it has been
pre-integrated with third-party SIP, MGCP, ISDN and CAS protocol stacks and
provides the multimedia path and call control for all combinations of FXS,
FXO, ISDN, CAS and SIP calls over PSTN, LAN and WAN networks.

Mindspeed's Comcerto 300 Series of multi-core VoIP processors and
carrier-class media processing software delivers the industry's most
complete VoIP media gateway solution for
next-generation network carrier and enterprise applications. With a rich
set of interfaces, voice codec options and packet-processing features, and
an integrated host processor, the Comcerto 300 Series enables manufacturers
to quickly and cost-effectively integrate VoIP-enabled T1/E1 and POTS
gateway functions into a broad variety of carrier and enterprise access
equipment.

Mindspeed's Comcerto 300 Series evaluation boards include Zarlink's Ve880
VoicePort? integrated SLIC/SLAC, while also providing direct connectivity
to Zarlink's long-loop, high-performance VoiceEdge VE790 and
next-generation VE792 SLIC/SLAC evaluation boards, all under the control of
the Excelocity XL-Gateway Framework.

About Mindspeed Technologies?

Mindspeed Technologies, Inc. designs, develops and sells semiconductor
networking solutions for communications applications in enterprise, access,
metropolitan and wide area networks.

The company's three key product families include high-performance analog
transmission and switching solutions, multiservice access products designed
to support voice and data services across wireline and wireless networks,
and WAN communications solutions including T/E carrier physical-layer and
link-layer devices as well as ATM/MPLS network processors.

Mindspeed's products are used in a wide variety of network infrastructure


equipment, including voice and media gateways, high-speed routers,
switches, access multiplexers, cross-connect systems, add-drop multiplexers
and digital loop carrier equipment.

To learn more, visit us at www.mindspeed.com.


About Excelocity Inc.

Excelocity, head quartered in Ottawa Canada, is a Telecom Development
company that specializes in building embedded gateways for Telecom Product
Vendors. Excelocity has developed award winning enterprise and carrier
class gateways for Tier 1 and Tier 2 telecom vendors.

Excelocity's XL Gateway Framework SDK product enables telecom vendors to
significantly decrease development costs and reduce the time to market for
new gateway products from years to months. Excelocity also provides a full
range of professional services for the design and development of embedded
carrier class and enterprise gateways, including the customization of the
XL-Gateway Framework.

Visit our site, www.excelocity.com, to review our products and services and
download our XL-Gateway Framework document.

Safe Harbor Statement

This press release contains statements relating to Mindspeed, and our
future results, including our product features and their benefits, market
growth projections and business trends, that are "forward-looking
statements" as defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of
1995. Actual results, and actual events that occur, may differ materially
from those projected as a result of certain risks and uncertainties. These
risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: future operating
losses; cash requirements and terms and availability of financing;
worldwide political and economic uncertainties and specific conditions in
the markets we address; loss of or diminished demand from one or more key
customers or distributors; fluctuations in the price of our common stock
and our operating results; our ability to attract and retain qualified
personnel; constraints in the supply of wafers and other product components
from our third-party manufacturers; doing business internationally; pricing
pressures and other competitive factors; successful development and
introduction of new products; our ability to successfully and cost
effectively establish and manage operations in foreign jurisdictions;
industry consolidation; order and shipment uncertainty; our ability to
obtain design wins and develop revenues from them; lengthy sales cycles;
the expense of and our ability to defend our intellectual property against
infringement claims by others; product defects and bugs; and business
acquisitions and investments, as well as other risks and uncertainties,
including those detailed from time to time in our Securities and Exchange
Commission filings.

Editorial Contact:
Tom Stites
Mindspeed Technologies, Inc.
(949) 579-3650
Hugh Dysart
Excelocity Inc.
(613) 321-9530

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