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Legerity and Mindspeed Introduce the Industry's First 48-Channel VoIP Reference Solution With Integrated Line Testing

Posted on: Wednesday, 15 March 2006, 12:00 CST

Legerity, Inc., the "V" in VoIP(TM) and Mindspeed Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:MSPD), a leading supplier of semiconductor solutions for network infrastructure applications, today announced at Spring VON 2006 a reference and evaluation platform which demonstrates complete system-level voice-over-IP (VoIP) processing for 48 standard telephone lines within an IP Multimedia System (IMS) infrastructure. The reference design will accelerate product design for access equipment vendors developing carrier-grade plain old telephone service (POTS) capabilities on an Ethernet/IP-based access network.

The system, focused on Multi-Service Access Platform (MSAP) and remote fiber-to-the-curb (FTTC) infrastructure equipment, is built around Mindspeed's Comcerto(TM) 500 family of VoIP processors, and Legerity's Voice Edge 790 family of narrowband copper loop termination devices.

The Mindspeed(R) programmable Comcerto VoIP devices integrate digital signal processing, packet processing, signaling, call control and system management, and are available in footprint-compatible versions supporting 4 to 128 VoIP ports. Mindspeed's production-quality voice processing software completes the full-featured offering. Legerity's Ve790 devices provide long-loop, high performance telephone loop termination capabilities, including the industry's most robust, accurate, and feature-rich line testing functions. This automated, remote line testing allows network operators to monitor, diagnose, and pinpoint potential problems, all before involving service technicians, or affecting customers. The entire system can be configured to different standards worldwide, due to the software-programmable nature of both product families.

"The tight collaboration between Mindspeed and Legerity resulted in a solution that will significantly reduce our joint customer's time to market," said Jacques Issa, senior director of marketing and applications at Legerity. "Moreover, the innovation presented in this partnership is setting the standard for the industry. This platform is not only the first true 48 channel solution, but also the first reference platform that shows full functionality from Ethernet packets to copper loops with integrated line-test diagnostic capability."

"Telephone customers expect the phone to work, even when the power fails. This 'lifeline' service is what the carrier telephone network provides, and what the networks of tomorrow must continue to provide. This system demonstrates that there is no need to sacrifice this lifeline or the carrier-class quality that we expect from our wired phones as we move to the advanced IP-based networks and services of the future," said Kurt Michel, director of product marketing at Mindspeed.

Legerity and Mindspeed will be showcasing reference design demonstrations this week at the VON Spring 2006 tradeshow in San Jose, the industry event for VoIP.

About Legerity, Inc.

Legerity is the world's most trusted name in voice integrated circuits (ICs) for high-voltage, analog/mixed signal semiconductor and software technologies. Legerity has years of demonstrated expertise in multiple voice technologies, world-class factory and field engineering support with a "high touch" customer philosophy, and consistent, reliable, high volume supply of premium quality IC components. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Legerity supports the needs of a global customer base through proprietary semiconductor technologies, superior manufacturing processes, and more than 650 U.S. and international patents. Visit Legerity on the Web at www.legerity.com.

About Mindspeed Technologies(R)

Headquartered in Newport Beach, Calif., Mindspeed Technologies, Inc. designs, develops and sells semiconductor networking solutions for communications applications in enterprise, access, metropolitan and wide area networks.

The company's three key product families include high-performance analog transmission and switching solutions, multiservice access products designed to support voice and data services across wireline and wireless networks, and WAN communications solutions including T/E carrier physical-layer and link-layer devices, as well as ATM/MPLS network processors. Mindspeed's products are used in a wide variety of network infrastructure equipment including voice and media gateways, high-speed routers, switches, access multiplexers, cross-connect systems, add-drop multiplexers and digital loop carrier equipment. To learn more, visit us at www.mindspeed.com.

Safe Harbor Statement

This press release contains statements relating to Mindspeed, and our future results, including certain projections and business trends, that are "forward-looking statements" as defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Actual results, and actual events that occur, may differ materially from those projected as a result of certain risks and uncertainties. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: market demand for our new and existing products and our ability to increase our revenues; our ability to maintain operating expenses within anticipated levels; our ability to reduce our cash consumption; constraints in the supply of wafers and other product components from our third-party manufacturers; availability and terms of capital needed for our business; the ability to attract and retain qualified personnel; successful development and introduction of new products; our ability to obtain design wins and develop revenues from them; pricing pressures and other competitive factors; order and shipment uncertainty; fluctuations in manufacturing yields; product defects; and intellectual property infringement claims by others and the ability to protect our intellectual property, as well as other risks and uncertainties, including those detailed from time to time in our Securities and Exchange Commission filings.

Legerity, the Legerity logo and combinations thereof are registered trademarks, and BatteryDirect, PhonePort, SLAC, VoiceEdge, VoicePort, VoicePath, "the 'V' in VoIP" and WinSLAC are trademarks of Legerity, Inc. Other product names used in this publication are for identification purposes only and may be trademarks of their respective companies.

Source: Business Wire

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