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News Release from: Freescale Semiconductor | Subject: Smart Packet Telephony 8101
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 26 March 2003
Platform points to packet telephony
development
Working to open packet telephony equipment development to the general market, Motorola has unveiled its Smart Packet Telephony 8101.
Working to open packet telephony equipment development to the general market, Motorola has unveiled its Smart Packet Telephony 8101 This comprehensive voice-over-IP reference platform addresses the needs of small- to medium-sized media gateway equipment that handles voice, fax or modem data services, and is the first in a series of packet telephony reference platforms for enterprise applications
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 20 Mar 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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"Further, Motorola's strong advantage is the use of a single, scalable DSP architecture - StarCore.
This protects OEMs' application software investment as they develop a range of low- to high-channel-density products".
The level of system integration in this platform leverages the strengths of Motorola and its Smart Networks Alliance members.
The development platform incorporates Motorola's MPC8260 PowerQUICC II processor that supports Fast Ethernet interfaces to the packet network and a DSP daughter-card featuring six MSC8101 DSPs in a PTMC form factor.
The full IP-PBX reference design includes schematics.
Its modular design supports future expansion via StarCore DSP-based PTMC form factor daughter cards.
The Smart Packet Telephony 8101 platform includes support for voice compression and echo cancellation, essential for voice over packet systems.
Other VoIP functions include dual-tone multiple frequency (DTMF) detection, voice activity detection, and silence suppression, as well as modem and fax data modulation and demodulation.
The CodeWarrior Development Studio for Packet Telephony, a software development environment from Metrowerks, a Motorola company, supports the platform.
"This development kit offers equipment manufacturers a single source for an IP telephony reference design and software tools, said Mark Gessner, StarCore DSP solutions product manager for Metrowerks.
"It demonstrates our solution for a platform that can handle voice, fax or modem data services".
Multiple third parties supply media gateway and remote access server software to complete the packet telephony solution and support fast time to market.
"As the supplier of network system components, we understand the hardware and software integration issues faced by system designers", said Tim Summers, Worldwide Packet Telephony Operations Manager, for Motorola's RF and DSP Infrastructure Systems Division.
"Smart Packet Telephony 8101 was created to meet the specific needs of scaleable media gateway equipment manufacturers.
What you are seeing is a natural extension of our networking industry leadership".
The Smart Packet Telephony 8101 development kit is expected to be available from Metrowerks in June 2003.
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