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Suite for 3G Wireless Infrastructure Platform Development

20th September, 2004

ASIA : Wintegra Inc., a fabless semiconductor company focused on the access infrastructure market, today announced general availability and released details of its production-ready data path software targeted at the Wireless Infrastructure. New additions to the Wireless 2.0 code library extend the Wintegra Wireless Platform for 3rd Generation Base Station (NodeB), Radio Network Controller (RNC) and Media Gateway (MG) interface designs. This unique approach blends feature-rich, production-quality software with Wintegra's WinPath Access Packet Processors to meet the specific requirements of wireless equipment. Wintegra is the only network processor company providing such a software package for the wireless infrastructure.

The Wireless 2.0 software fully utilizes Wintegra's internal packet processing engines to provide a hardware-enhanced, multi-protocol foundation. It leverages Wintegra's unique hardware architecture with its modified symmetric multi-processors to enable the code to be cost and performance matched across a wide range of wireless systems from 150 Kpps to over 2 Mpps. Among the advantages of Wintegra's wireless approach is the potential to cut as much as a year from a customer's typical data path software development cycle based on traditional older RISC, network and communications processor based designs.

The Wireless 2.0 release supports the industry's widest range of performance and features for market-leading wireless designs. It provides advanced data path features such as ATM, IP and Ethernet transport for the 3GPP Standardized 'Iub' interface between the NodeB (Base Transceiver Station) and RNC (Base Station Controller) equipment. This allows equipment manufacturers using a WinPath-based silicon and software platform to meet stringent 3GPP specification requirements and modify any new design to add new features as they are standardized by 3GPP. New systems can be designed as a scalable platform allowing manufacturers to use any board developed at either end of the Iub, optimizing cost and features for a wide range of wireless infrastructure equipment.

As with other software packages already announced from Wintegra, this new software is factory hardened and provided as a "shrink-wrapped" package that can be easily integrated with customer-specific or pre-developed, third-party control plane code. This software is royalty free and requires no upfront NRE.

Wintegra has numerous manufacturers designing with the WinPath Access Processor family. The Wireless 2.0 software is now being announced to the wider customer base as a logical evolution from the previous release, Wireless 1.0, which has been used successfully by several of the leading equipment manufacturers in their latest equipment designs for 3G in Europe, North America, South America and the Far East.

About Wintegra's Wireless 2.0 software (partial list, see Wintegra for details)

-- Runs on all WinPath devices allowing Iub designs for MG, NodeB and RNC

-- Enables systems from 150 Kpps to over 1 Mpps; with T1/E1 connectivity,
10/100/1000 Ethernet, and up to OC12 ATM support

-- Market leading data path protocol support
-- ATM-UNI, ATM-IMA, IPv4/IPv6 (soon), UDP/IP, PPP, ML-PPP, MC-PPP, PPP-
Mux
-- AAL2 to IP Interworking (CPS and SSSAR)
-- PPPoA, PPPoE
-- SS7 support
-- GRE, GTP
-- Header Compression (RFC 2507/2508/2509)
-- ATM-4.1 traffic management, OAM and PM feature support
-- Multi-field, multi-layer deep packet classification

-- Validated RTOS support for VxWorks and Linux

-- Available now

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