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News Release from: Design of Systems on Silicon | Subject: Montgo
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 12 December 2007
Consumer chipset accelerates PLC to
100Mbit/s
Products designed for Internet sharing, audio distribution or data networking applications in the home will benefit from the extremely low cost chipset.
DS2's Montgo powerline communications chipset for the consumer market provides a maximum datarate of 100Mbit/s and is specifically targeted at data networking applications Products designed for Internet sharing, audio distribution or data networking applications will benefit from the extremely low cost of Montgo, which offers full interoperability with DS2's highly successful UPA-DHS compliant 200Mbit/s product (Universal Powerline Association Digital Home Systems Standard) and future 400Mbit/s powerline products that offer higher performance levels for the requirements of video networking
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 16 Mar 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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MONTGO will be sampling during Q1 2008 and will be available in volume during Q2 2008.
The chipset (comprising the DSS8101 PHY/MAC and the DSS7800 AFE) will be priced at US $5.55 in volume.
Chano Gomez, Vice-President of Technology and Strategic Partnerships at DS2 said: "Until today, equipment manufacturers have been offered medium-speed powerline ICs that are expensive (between US $8 and $10 for an 85Mbit/s and $5.00 for 14Mbit/s powerline IC from Intellon) and which are not compatible with higher speed 200Mbit/s products".
"Consumers are then offered products that lack high performance and that risk becoming obsolete as the industry moves to 200, 300 and future 400Mbit/s".
"Our new Montgo chipset solves these two problems: it's very competitively priced at $5.55 and can interoperate with 200Mbit/s and future 400Mbit/s powerline products".
"This provides a very compelling proposition to device manufacturers, service providers and consumers".
Jorge Marcos, Product Manager at DS2 said: "Our market research clearly shows that one of the biggest concerns for device manufacturers developing powerline products in the medium-speed segment is that they are forced to deal with a single solution that, until today, did not face competition in that segment and which does not deliver interoperability".
"We are convinced that DS2's latest offering will introduce some healthy competition and will allow device manufacturers to develop 100Mbit/s products for data networking applications that interoperate with 200 and 400Mbit/s generations".
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