[November 29, 2011]

Mindspeed Ships Five Millionth Multi-Core Packet Processor for Customer Premises Equipment

Mindspeed Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: MSPD), a leading supplier of semiconductor solutions for network infrastructure applications, today announced it has shipped five million Comcerto® multi-core system-on-chip (SoC) embedded packet processors for customer premises equipment (CPE), including residential gateways and broadband home routers (BHRs).

"Our Comcerto 1000 processor has particularly strong penetration in the BHR market, where we are playing an important role in this segment's rapid expansion and evolution," said Naser Adas, vice president and general manager, CPE and wireless, at Mindspeed. "We continue to deliver a growing range of capabilities on the multi-core SoC foundation of our Comcerto processor, which combines performance with extremely low power consumption and carrier-class voice, quality of service (QoS) and reliability. This architecture has proven ideal for value-added services deployment by enabling remotely-managed applications from carriers, or third-party providers, to be run on one core, while the other remains dedicated to primary gateway functionality including voice processing and IPTV (News - Alert) routing."

Mindspeed recently extended its Comcerto 1000 family to enable a new category of CPE service offload platform (SOP) hardware that can be used with existing BHRs in the connected home. SOP Boxes™ will make it easier and more cost-effective for service providers to partner with best-of-breed home automation, utility monitoring, security, healthcare and networked appliance vendors to deliver cloud-based applications that can be provisioned and securey managed using their current hardware and software infrastructure.

"The broadband home networking market is on the rise, as new devices and technologies allow consumers to turn their homes into digital hubs for media sharing, social networking, and a wide variety of emerging value-added, carrier-managed broadband health, energy and security services," said Jeff Heynen, directing analyst for broadband access at Infonetics Research. "Next generation residential broadband home routers have become the fastest growing segment of the broadband customer premises equipment devices market."

About Comcerto 1000 and 100-series Processors

Mindspeed®'s Comcerto 1000 processor features a state-of-the-art QoS hardware capability that delivers the highest quality of experience to demanding users that expect flawless, simultaneous streaming of voice, high-definition (HD) grade video and data applications. The Comcerto 1000's unique, programmable software architecture enables manufacturers to offer multiple system solutions for various deployments ranging from fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) based triple play gateways to 3G/4G-routers and WiMAX integrated access devices (IADs). Comcerto processors take advantage of Mindspeed's design experience using ARM (News - Alert)® cores, and its long history of leadership in carrier-class voice technology.

Mindspeed also offers a Comcerto 1000 software design kit (SDK) that includes a complete BHR reference implementation and a carrier-class, feature-rich voice package to help accelerate and reduce the total cost of system development. Additionally, Comcerto processors are supported by Mindspeed's OpenMind™ ecosystem, which includes a complete OSGi and Java application-development framework to speed development for a wide range of connected home products.

The Comcerto 100 series of devices for residential, small office/home office (SOHO) and small-to-midsize businesses (SMB) combine a high-performance VPN/WAN router platform with a guaranteed low-latency voice subsystem. The 100 series speed the delivery of broadband residential gateway and office-in-a-box CPE products, while reducing total system cost.

About Mindspeed Technologies (News - Alert)

Mindspeed Technologies (NASDAQ: MSPD) is a leading provider of network infrastructure semiconductor solutions to the communications industry. The company's low-power system-on-chip (SoC) products are helping to drive video, voice and data applications in worldwide fiber-optic networks and enable advanced processing for 3G and long-term evolution (LTE (News - Alert)) mobile networks. The company's high-performance analog products are used in a variety of optical, enterprise, industrial and video transport systems. Mindspeed's products are sold to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) around the globe.

To learn more, please visit www.mindspeed.com. Company news and updates are also posted at www.twitter.com/mindspeed.

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