‘Connected Home’ Applications from Mindspeed at 2012 Broadband World Forum

“We have a growing ecosystem of technology partners that are supporting our Comcerto processor family, and we are pleased to showcase the latest 'connected life' services that highlight advanced capabilities, such as deep packet inspection for content-aware applications, and a new generation of software-defined networking solutions,” said Marco E. Bello, executive director of marketing and product management with the communications convergence processing business unit at Mindspeed. “Our latest ARM Cortex A9-powered solution is ideal for running OSGI bundles, which enable a new class of broadband subscriber services including home automation, security, energy management and e-healthcare.”

Mindspeed will be hosting private meetings and demonstrations for service providers, customers, press and analysts throughout Broadband World Forum in Meeting Room 8 on the show floor. The company's Comcerto communications processor has been honored as one of the finalists for a 'Best Broadband Enabler' award at the Broadband InfoVision Awards, which will be held on October 17, 2012 during the conference.

Mindspeed’s Comcerto 2000 family enables a new class of cost-effective products that support new protocols and higher speeds with lower power consumption. The processors are designed for a wide variety of applications, including switching, routing, security, multi-service gateways, enterprise-class wireless access points and controllers, network attached storage and Voice-over-IP for residential, enterprise and networking equipment used by small and medium businesses. As the first communications processors to support deep packet inspection, the Comcerto 2000 family also is designed to bring software defined networking to the edge of the network through an API, helping to reduce the cost of delivering complex personalized consumer services and other applications in today’s ultra-connected society.

Representatives from Mindspeed’s high-performance analogue business unit will also be on hand to show its family of highly integrated laser drivers that enable optical transceiver and optical network terminal vendors to significantly reduce their overall system costs. The devices can be implemented in traditional module formats or with a bi-directional optical sub-assembly that can be mounted directly onto the ONT board to reduce bill-of-material costs.