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Conexant Secures Video Surveillance Design-Wins with Wave-P

^{Published on 2009-02-03 05:34:16, Last Modified on 2009-02-03 05:36:01 - Market Wire}
 

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.--([ BUSINESS WIRE ])--Conexant Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CNXT), a leading supplier of innovative semiconductor solutions for imaging, audio, video, and Internet connectivity applications, today announced that Wave-particle Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. (Wave-P) has selected the company's CX25853 video decoder and CX25821 media bridge solutions for four new products. These include two new PCI Express™ (PCIe) interface add-in cards for PC-based video surveillance systems with digital video recording (DVR) capabilities, and two new stand-alone DVR products. The new video surveillance products are shipping to customers worldwide now. China-based Wave-P provides leading-edge DVR products for global video security and surveillance applications.

"We are pleased that Wave-P has selected our solutions for their next-generation video surveillance products," said René Hartner, vice president of marketing for Conexant's Imaging and PC Media business. "PCs provide a flexible and cost-effective platform that allows manufacturers to quickly develop a broad range of video surveillance DVR solutions. In addition to providing increased versatility, PC-based DVRs provide more powerful analytic capabilities than embedded DVRs, which facilitate the development of intelligent surveillance systems."

"After a careful assessment, we chose Conexant's highly reliable video solutions because they provide the performance required for advanced, cost-sensitive video security applications," said Zhongbiao Mao, general manager of Wave-P. "In addition, the high level of integration and driver support allows us to reduce product development costs and bring video surveillance products to market more quickly."

Wave-P's new BL-1408 and BL-1416 add-in cards enable the capture and digitization of images from analog cameras, which are then sent via the PCIe interface to the PC for display, analysis, and/or recording. The cards support 8 and 16 real-time camera inputs, respectively, and are compatible with Windows^® XP and Vista 32 operating systems. Wave-P's WAPA-916 and WAPA-924 stand-alone DVRs feature a unique internal PCIe architecture, 16 to 24 channel H.264 compression, Linux operating systems, and user-friendly controls.

Conexant's highly integrated CX25853 is the world's only eight-channel video decoder, and is targeted at advanced, high-capacity DVR surveillance products that capture and record multiple video streams simultaneously.

The CX25821 media bridge enables multi-channel, bi-directional uncompressed digital audio and video transfers to a host computer for preview, processing, or compression via the PCIe interface. The device includes an integrated Windows-based driver which reduces engineering development time and provides time-to-market-advantages.

Together, the CX25853 and CX25821 form a complete eight-channel, industry-standard "D1" digital video solution for real-time video surveillance DVR applications.

About Conexant

Conexant's comprehensive portfolio of innovative semiconductor solutions includes products for imaging, audio, video, and Internet connectivity applications. Conexant is a fabless semiconductor company that recorded revenues of more than $500 million in fiscal year 2008. The company is headquartered in Newport Beach, Calif. To learn more, please visit [ www.conexant.com ].

About Wave-P

Wave-particle Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. founded on April 2003, is a high-tech enterprise dedicated to R&D of digital video recording (DVR) products. It is a leading manufacturer and supplier of DVR products with soft compression in China under the support and trust from its clients, and one of the rare DVR manufacturers in the world to R&D DVR products independently.

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