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SiTel wins 2009 Frost and Sullivan Green Excellence Award
Energy-efficient Green VoIP processors recognized for their low power consumption that helps reduce energy bills and carbon footprints
‘s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands, December 16, 2009 – SiTel Semiconductor yesterday received the Frost and Sullivan 2009 Global Enterprise VoIP Semiconductors Green Excellence Award in Product Innovation, for its energy-efficient Green VoIP processor range. The award is clear recognition of SiTel’s commitment to delivering low-power, environmentally friendly VoIP and DECT (News - Alert) / CAT-iq IC solutions, which enable enterprise manufacturers to reduce power consumption by up to 2 Watts per desktop phone.
SiTel’s Green VoIP ICs are based on a unique multi-processor architecture. This allows the chips to deliver excellent performance at lower clock frequencies, and enables individual functional blocks to be turned on and off as needed. These features markedly reduce power consumption for the processors themselves. Additional efficiency gains are made on the system level through smart software that controls off-chip functionality such as liquid crystal displays (LCDs).
“SiTel’s Green VoIP ICs are an exciting addition to the enterprise telephony market, with a proven architecture that lends itself to ‘green’ efficiency. This delivers clear benefits for the company’s direct customers and end users alike. System manufacturers can produce products that meet not only current legislation but also more stringent upcoming regulations,” said Jayalakshmi Janakiraman, Research Analyst at Frost and Sullivan. “SiTel’s green implementation is a unique selling point to attract end-users keen to reduce their cost of operations and carbon footprint.”
“With its potential to reduce phone bills, VoIP is causing a revolution in the telephony market. But what is less often mentioned is the increased power consumption for the end user. SiTel is extremely proud that such a well-respected independent authority as Frost and Sullivan has recognized our efforts to reduce the energy impact of VoIP and deliver greener solutions. Analysts estimate 40 million VoIP phones will ship in 2011. A 2 W power reduction in each of these would give a global power saving of 80 MW – the equivalent of a small power station,” said Asmund Tielens, CEO of SiTel Semiconductors.
SiTel’s Green VoIP range combines excellent energy efficiency and impressive performance. With a 16-bit CompactRISC™ processor plus two user-programmable Gen2DSPs, they deliver 240 MIPS of processing power. SiTel’s Perfect Acoustic Echo Canceller (PAEC), a 32-kHz codec for wideband audio and an integrated class D amplifier ensure excellent sound quality. In addition, the latest member of the family, the SC14452, includes an integrated Ethernet MAC and a hardware cryptographic engine to accelerate DES, 3DES and AES computations, allowing four secured IP calls to be handled simultaneously.
The Award was presented at the Frost and Sullivan 2009 Excellence in Best Practices Awards Banquet in San Antonio, Texas on December 15, 2009.
About Green VoIP
Concerns over climate change and fossil fuel supplies have put energy efficiency of all products at the forefront both consumer and government agendas.
For example, the European Commission Regulation on ecodesign (implementing Directive 2005/32/EC) proposes limiting the standby power consumption of domestic and office devices initially to 2 W if the device has a display and 1 W otherwise. A future second phase will further tighten these limits to 1 W and 0.5 W. Similar legislation is currently making its way through Congress in the US.
To help customers respond to these concerns and regulations, SiTel launched the Green VoIP range in 2008. These energy-efficient ICs allow manufacturers to create VoIP solutions that are environmentally friendly and reduce electricity bills. The first Green VoIP product, the SC14450, reduced net system power consumption for typical applications by 50% to around 800 mW during calls and 550 mW in idle mode. The next Green VoIP processor, the SC14452, pushed down power consumption even further to 550 and 350 mW respectively – meeting the most stringent proposed limits.
About Frost & Sullivan (News - Alert) Green Excellence Awards
Instituted as an integral part of the Environment & Building Technologies Practice of Frost & Sullivan, Green Excellence Awards are presented to companies that have excelled in green product and technology innovation, and service achievements. These Awards recognize groundbreaking ideation and innovation across a multitude of disciplines that originated from a firm sense of environmental responsibility. Recipient companies are committed to a continuous focus on reducing the dependency on finite resources, from concept to commercialization. Their efforts demonstrate a resolve to reduce the impact of climate change and overall ecological footprint.
Frost & Sullivan Best Practices Awards recognize companies in a variety of regional and global markets for demonstrating outstanding achievement and superior performance in areas such as leadership, technological innovation, customer service, and strategic product development. Industry analysts compare market participants and measure performance through in-depth interviews, analysis, and extensive secondary research in order to identify best practices in the industry.
About SiTel Semiconductor BV
SiTel Semiconductor BV was established in June 2005, following a management buy-out from National Semiconductor Corporation. Headquartered in ‘s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands. SiTel is a fabless IC manufacturer with design centers in The Netherlands and Greece along with regional sales offices in Hong Kong, Japan and the U.S. The company specializes in the design, manufacturing and marketing of high-performance CMOS solutions for digital cordless and corded communication and is the world’s number one DCT supplier for cordless voice, real-time data and VoIP.
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