Octasic, a fabless semiconductor vendor based in Montreal, Canada, announced commercial availability of its echo cancellation and voice quality enhancement (VQE) products. Octasic’s OCT6100 Series is a family of voice chips with densities ranging from 128 to 672 channels, and power consumption of less than 3mW per channel. The feature set includes noise reduction, acoustic echo control, signaling tone detection, audio conferencing and other capabilities for use in the wireless, VoP, and TDM segments of the telecommunications industry.
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- Octasic was founded in 1998 and has been an outsourced design house for ATM and IP voice-over-packet solutions for major telecommunications vendors, such as Ericsson, Alcatel, Nortel Networks, NEC and Fujitsu. The company is now developing its own line of ASICs for key VoP functions: packetization, aggregation and mediation; compression; and echo cancellation. Octasic offers specialized processors performing each one of those individual functions.