Agere Systems announced a new chip that integrates the company’s WaveLAN Wi-Fi technology with VoIP . The chipset could be used for Wi-Fi phones featuring the same compact form-factor and low-power consumption of current handheld mobile devices. In addition, Agere has signed an agreement to incorporate NTT’s Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) software into its wireless IP phone solution. As a result, Agere plans to offer a development platform and reference design for handset manufacturers that will enable phones to be built that are interoperable with residential and enterprise broadband VoIP networks deployed by NTT, Japan’s largest broadband service provider. Agere will also provide software drivers, SIP stack, voice compression codecs, and sample demonstration applications.
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- In April 2003, Agere Systems introduced two new VoIP chips for residential and enterprise IP phones. The new devices include both dual and single Ethernet-port system-on-a-chip solutions. The VoIP chips support wide-band codecs for enhanced voice quality, three-way teleconferencing, and full-duplex speakerphone capability with self-adaptive Acoustic Echo Cancellation. Both single-chip solutions couple Agere’s DSP 1600 core with an ARM940T microcontroller, allowing manufacturers to use the same software for a range of IP phone designs. Agere said its IP Phone chips are also compatible with its WaveLAN wireless networking components. The single port device is offered at approximately $12 in quantities of 50,000. The dual-port device is priced at approximately $18 in production quantities of 50,000.