FREMONT, Calif. -- Centillium Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq: CTLM - News), a leading provider of broadband access solutions, today announced that NEC has selected Centillium's pioneering Entropia(TM) III VoIP media gateway solution to help power advanced Internet Protocol (IP) services for NGN and 3G wireless infrastructure deployments. NEC chose Centillium's Entropia VoIP solution because it provides carrier-quality voice and media functions, as well as powerful processing, efficient power usage, rich software features and flexibility that are critical to the deployment of state-of-the-art NGN and 3G networks for leading service providers in Japan.

"We look to Centillium to provide us with leading-edge technology and resources as we deliver NGN, fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) and IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) services that combine voice and data capabilities on both wireless and wireline networks," said Toshio Suzuki, assistant general manager, NEC Communication Systems. "Entropia III's superior processing power, low power consumption and technically advanced software features provide us with clear competitive advantages as we deploy both NGN and 3G wireless infrastructures for carriers in Japan and around the world."

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