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 With most major U.S. service providers in widespread deployment,
the Voice over IP (VoIP) market will continue to surge over
the next few years. Many analysts believe that as consumers
better understand the technology and its many benefits—such
as receiving home phone calls
wherever they are via a simple, portable media terminal adapter
(MTA) or IP phone, picking
up messages from any phone or computer anytime, or sending
a voice mail to a friend via email—they will sign up
in droves. And for those not instantly attracted to the convenience
and portability of VoIP, the reasonable prices and the allure
of having one bill for triple play services will be the deciding
factors.
In the enterprise, VoIP has been used as a cost-cutting
measure for several years. It is expected to become even
more cost-competitive as larger VoIP providers, including
the telecommunications giants, squeeze smaller providers
out of the lucrative enterprise market. Required services
now include enterprise-level voice mail, automatically answered
calls, conference call bridge service, music-on-hold, three-digit
dialing, portability, and a variety of local, national and
international bundled calling plans.
Overall, VoIP equipment technology has matured, meaning
all expected services are now provided as well as new IP-based
innovations. This technology is now perceived as reliable
and capable of providing the “5-9s” quality that
traditional technology did, which continues to be a major
factor in the time to mass-market adoption.
What does this mean if you’re a service provider?
Clearly, the need to support more and better services at
lower costs is critical. You will undoubtedly choose the
gateway OEM that produces the most feature rich product.
What does this mean if you’re an equipment OEM selling
to service providers? The right chip solution may make the
difference in your success, so whether you require a service
providers/enterprise or consumer/SOHO solution, Centillium
is the answer. Our award-winning VoIP ICs are among the lowest-power,
highest-density chips on the market, carrying up to 1,000
VoIP channels on a single chip. Our highly sophisticated
architectures “future-proof” your designs - allowing
for easy software-based upgrades to new bandwidth intensive
features your customers will require in the future. And no
other company can match our highly scalable, efficient and
low-cost systems.
For more information, visit our Entropia™ (for service
provider/enterprise solutions) product pages. Visit our Atlanta™ and Voice Services
Platform™ (for consumer/SOHO solutions).
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