Broadcom Unveils Chips for Residential and SOHO IP Phones

Broadcom introduced two new IP phone engine chips that could be used to build feature-rich IP phones for the residential, small office home office (SOHO), and small-to-medium sized business (SMB) markets. The two devices (BCM1113R and BCM1115R) are highly integrated IP phone chips supporting advanced features, such as high fidelity voice quality; the integration of voice, instant messaging, email and video; the integration of landline, wireless LAN and cellular; on-line gaming with voice; etc. Both chips feature an 87 MHz MIPS32 RISC processor for advanced Computer Telephony Integration (CTI) applications, and an 87 MHz dual-MAC digital signal processor (DSP) to support voice signal processing. The DSP can support narrowband voice communication using G.711, G.729A, or BroadVoice16, or wideband using G.722 or BroadVoice32. Full- duplex speakerphone capability is supported in conjunction with any of these voice compression techniques. The BCM1113R's integrated Ethernet switch enables the office PC and IP phone to share a single LAN connection, and supports IEEE 802.1p packet prioritization and 802.1q VLAN identification. The BCM1115R is a single Ethernet port version of the BCM1113R. Both chips integrate analog CODECs capable of supporting both narrowband 8 Kilohertz (KHz) and wideband 16 KHz sampling.


"In recent months, AT&T, SBC, Verizon and several other service providers have made announcements about rolling out VoIP-enabled services to residential and small-to-medium sized business users," said Paul Shore, Director of Marketing for Broadcom's VoIP Client Products. "Now that VoIP is rapidly moving toward mass acceptance in large enterprises, we are leveraging our proven strengths in a variety of broadband technologies to ensure that cost- effective IP telephony devices are available for the small-to-medium sized business and residential markets."


Broadcom's VoIP technology is already deployed in several residential markets throughout the Asia-Pacific region in equipment from iCableSystem and Ambit Microsystems. Together, these companies have deployed over four million residential VoIP units using Broadcom chips and software, supplying equipment to many of the largest carriers of consumer VoIP services in Japan. http://www.broadcom.com