BARCELONA -- LSI Corporation (NYSE: LSI) today announced the StarPro® SP2704S, a higher-speed version of the StarPro SP2704 media processor, enabling new levels of performance for networking infrastructure equipment manufacturers. The production-qualified family of SP2700 media processors, including the SP2704, SP2704S and SP2716, offers a single platform for a wide range of applications from enterprise to carrier-class media gateways, servers and wireless base stations, and can scale to more than 3,000 simultaneous media gateway channels.

Based on the highly cycle-efficient StarCoreTM SC3400e DSP core, the SP2700 family of media processors provides more than twice the processing capacity and consumes less power than competitive DSP architectures. The increased frequency of the SP2704S coupled with a cycle-efficient architecture allows for high-density media processing, reducing the number of line cards and lowering power consumption. All StarPro media and baseband processors are equipped with embedded CPUs and integrated high-density memory that eliminates the need for external memory in many applications.

"Wireless operators need powerful, highly scalable solutions to handle the exploding demand for broadband and real-time video services," said Will Strauss, principal analyst, Forward Concepts. "The StarPro SP2704S media processor enables networking and telecommunication OEMs to deploy high-capacity, media-rich, any-to-any wireless services across the network with minimum cost and risk."

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BARCELONA -- LSI Corporation (NYSE: LSI) today announced the expansion of the AxxiaTM Communication Processor family with the ACP3423 communication processor, targeted at equipment such as multi-radio base stations and wireless backhaul. The Axxia Communication Processor family enables OEMs to deliver deterministic performance in wireless applications such as video streaming, web browsing and high-quality digital voice.

The ACP3423 represents the next generation of communication processors built using the LSI asymmetric multicore architecture. The ACP3423 communication processor supports Synchronous Ethernet, which is critical for high-accuracy frequency synchronization for base-station and cell-site equipment deployed in all-IP/Ethernet networks. The ACP3423 also supports IEEE1588v2 timing-over-packet timing synchronization.

"With the proliferation of mobile broadband and the move to Ethernet and IP-based backhaul, system timing has become an essential ingredient for multiplexing, switching and transmission equipment," said Joseph Byrne, senior analyst for The Linley Group. "In addition, expanding the Axxia Communication Processor family enables customers to leverage common software architecture across multiple designs, lowering costs and speeding time to market."

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BARCELONA -- LSI Corporation (NYSE: LSI) and Zarlink Semiconductor today announced a collaborative solution that pre-integrates Zarlink’s Timing over Packet expertise with the LSI® AxxiaTM Communication Processor family, speeding time to market and simplifying integration for networking OEMs.

The combined offering brings together innovative networking silicon products that feature award-winning traffic management capabilities and industry-leading Timing over Packet products to provide a complete and scalable synchronization solution for next-generation mobile networks. These offerings provide timing synchronization information for 3G and LTE base stations and other mobile network infrastructure, enabling TDM infrastructure to be replaced with low-cost Ethernet-based backhaul.

"Wireless networks are increasingly pushing the bandwidth envelope as consumers continue to use their smartphones and connected devices to watch videos, browse the Internet and interact with social media applications," said Tareq Bustami, multicore communication processor product line director, LSI. "By integrating the Axxia Communication Processor family and Zarlink timing synchronization, we are enabling service providers to deploy Ethernet backhaul to efficiently deliver data-intensive applications while reducing operating costs."

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