NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. -- Mindspeed Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: MSPD), a leading supplier of semiconductor solutions for network infrastructure applications, today announced the first device in its new family of Comcerto(tm) voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) convergence processors. The industry's highest-density voice processor, the Comcerto Carrier Convergence Processor M82710 offers telecommunications equipment manufacturers a single device that can seamlessly transmit highly secure, carrier-class quality voice across wireless and wireline networks with integrated voice encryption, authentication, and denial-of-service (DoS) protection.

The Comcerto M82710 delivers two gigahertz of digital signal processing (DSP) power and is capable of processing more than 500 channels of secure carrier-class VoIP for wireline applications. For wireless applications, the Comcerto M82710 can process more than 100 channels of Mindspeed's patented CDMA selectable-mode-vocoder (SMV) technology, which enables the highest-quality and lowest bit rate wireless transmission of any voice coder on the market. It also offers a complete suite of voice codecs and protocols for GSM and W-CDMA wireless networks.

"With Comcerto, Mindspeed offers the industry's most integrated and fully featured family of VoIP processors for converging voice and data networks," said Raouf Halim, chief executive officer of Mindspeed. "With advanced security features and our patented SMV technology, the Comcerto M82710 provides our telecommunications equipment customers with an extremely powerful and versatile VoIP processor to enable compact and cost-effective systems across a full range of wireline and wireless voice protocols and architectures."

Mindspeed Technologies Inc.