Science & Technology
Science and Technology
Science and Technology
Thu, January 8, 2009
Wed, January 7, 2009 Mindspeed Technologies: Mindspeed(R), Wind River and DigiOn Demonstrate Home Digital Media Sharing With DLNA(R)-Enabled Broadba
NEWPORT BEACH, CA--(Marketwire - January 7, 2009) - Mindspeed Technologies, Inc. (
The demonstration will show how a broadband home router implementing DLNA technology allows consumers to effortlessly share or stream digital media saved in non-DLNA-enabled storage devices with a variety of home consumer electronic devices such as televisions, set-top boxes, personal computers and gaming consoles. The demonstration will take place in Mindspeed's booth, which will be located in South Hall 1 of the Las Vegas Convention Center, number 21828.
"DigiOn has a long track record of successfully delivering multimedia, storage and networking software products. Combined with Wind River's 20-plus years of device software leadership, the tight relationship between the three companies has resulted in a solution that will highly benefit our customers," said Preet Virk, senior vice president and general manager for Mindspeed's CPE products. "The superior performance and headroom of our Comcerto 100 low-power packet processor combined with industry leading DigiOn's DMS software and Wind River's Linux platform, enables us to deliver an off-the-shelf solution to our customers targeting the next-generation consumer electronic devices where media sharing capabilities are a must!"
"Our DiXiM Media Server supports a wide array of leading edge processors in the consumer electronics market and we are very excited to announce our partnership with Mindspeed," said Hisatoshi Taura, president of DigiOn. "DiXiM Media Server software combined with Mindspeed's low-power processor platform provides a proven and integrated solution to home networking equipment manufacturers. This collaboration will help our customers reduce time-to-market while providing substantial value-add to future home gateway products with home digital, media sharing capabilities."
"We are pleased to be working with DigiOn and Mindspeed to offer CES attendees a glimpse of what tomorrow's networked home can enable," said Nithya Ruff, senior director of the Linux product division at Wind River. "Market demand for smarter, more connected devices is almost insatiable, and consumer device manufacturers can no longer ignore the viability of standardized Linux solutions to deliver DLNA-enabled offerings to market in a timely, cost-effective manner. Wind River's Linux platform streamlines the process for developers to incorporate functionality that will allow users to manage and share the content they want, where and when they want it."
The Comcerto 100 family of embedded low-power packet processors enables service providers the ability to deploy sophisticated and reliable revenue generating services with the CPU headroom and high-packet throughput required for delivering next-generation multimedia content to their subscribers. Additionally, the Comcerto 100 platform-rich ecosystem of software and ODM partners delivers cost-effective turnkey solutions to broadband home gateways, small-to-midsized businesses (SMB) VPN/SSL routers and enterprise access points (EAP) manufacturers. The Comcerto 100 key features include low power consumption, gigabit wire rate NAT and VPN data routing, quality of service (QoS), carrier-class Voice-over-IP (VoIP) software offering and full IPv6 support.
Wind River's Platform for Consumer Devices, Linux Edition is optimized for the development and deployment of software for broadband access CPE devices, mobile handhelds, home entertainment devices, digital video devices, and automotive navigation and infotainment systems. This platform is ideal for customers who require specialized Linux features for memory-constrained, high-performance devices. It is designed for a small footprint but contains all the Linux capabilities consumer device developers demand, as well as support for leading next-generation processors and reference boards. Platform for Consumer Devices, Linux Edition is based on a Linux 2.6.21 kernel implementation and comes fully tested and validated on industry-specific hardware.
DigiOn's DMS provides DLNA guideline qualified media server functionalities. The main features include content discovery services (CDS), AutoSync, content distribution, upload function and a DTCP-IP encrypted distribution option. DMS has been used as the de facto server among top manufactures in the home networking industry.
About Mindspeed Technologies®
Headquartered in Newport Beach, Calif., Mindspeed Technologies, Inc. designs, develops and sells semiconductor networking solutions for communications applications in enterprise, access, metropolitan and wide area networks.
The company's three key product families include high-performance analog transmission and switching solutions, multiservice access products designed to support voice and data services across wireline and wireless networks, and WAN communications solutions including T/E carrier physical-layer and link-layer devices, as well as ATM/MPLS network processors.
Mindspeed's products are used in a wide variety of network infrastructure equipment including voice and media gateways, high-speed routers, switches, access multiplexers, cross-connect systems, add-drop multiplexers and digital loop carrier equipment.
To learn more, visit us at [ www.mindspeed.com ].
About DigiOn
DigiOn, Inc. is a software developer with experience in the development of multimedia, storage and networking products, and has established a leading position in the home network field. DigiOn, established in 1999, has its headquarters in Fukuoka, Japan.
To learn more, visit DigiOn at [ www.digion.com ].
About Wind River
Wind River is the global leader in Device Software Optimization (DSO). Wind River enables companies to develop, run and manage device software faster, better, at lower cost and more reliably. Wind River platforms are pre-integrated, fully standardized, enterprise-wide development solutions. They reduce effort, cost and risk and optimize quality and reliability at all phases of the device software development process, from concept to deployed product.
To learn more, visit Wind River at [ www.windriver.com ].
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