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Harbour Networks Ships Mindspeed Traffic Management Network Processor in Intelligent Multi-Layer Switch

Posted on: Monday, 19 April 2004, 06:00 CDT

Mindspeed's Traffic Stream Processor Solution Enables Harbour

Networks to Deploy Wire-Speed Multi-Layer Switch to Enterprise and

Service Providers

¶ Mindspeed Technologies Inc. (Nasdaq:MSPD), a leading supplier of semiconductor solutions for network infrastructure applications, today announced that Harbour Networks Inc. is shipping Mindspeed's traffic stream processor (TSP) solution in its Bighammer 6800 series backbone intelligent multi-layer switch. ¶ Beijing-based Harbour Networks is a leading provider of broadband Internet Protocol (IP) network solutions to telecommunications carriers, service providers, enterprises and government departments throughout China. The company supplies a variety of customers, including China Telecom, China Netcom, China Unicom, China Railway Communication, as well as finance and service industry, education and government institutions. ¶ The Bighammer 6800 series switch allows increased network capacity and improved communications performance by featuring high-port densities, a wide variety of interfaces, and sophisticated quality-of-service (QoS) features for next-generation IP-based networks. ¶"From our detailed comparison and selection, we believe that Mindspeed's TSP network processor is more mature and feature-rich than other similar solutions," said Li Jianguo, project manager of R&D, Harbour Networks Inc. "By using Mindspeed's TSP network processor in our new series intelligent multi-layer switch, we were able to produce a more competitive product and shorten our time to market."¶"We are very pleased that Harbour Networks has chosen to leverage Mindspeed's proven traffic management processing technology in its intelligent multi-layer switch," said Scott Lane, product line manager for Mindspeed's broadband internetworking systems business unit. "Our network processors offer comprehensive support for a wide variety of interfaces and routing protocols as well as bandwidth-intensive applications requiring robust QoS functions."¶"Mindspeed's success in China is due not only to our excellent technology, but also to an outstanding local support team that has been significantly increased during the past year to serve this growing market," added Jerry Hamilton, vice-president of Asia-Pacific sales for Mindspeed. ¶ The TSP CX27470 is integrated on the 8 x 155 Mbps asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) line card for the Ethernet switch contained in the Bighammer 6800. The CX27470 delivers a suite of traffic-management functions, including scheduling, shaping, policing, queuing, buffer management, congestion control, statistics and alarms. The combination of the CX27470 network processor and ready-to-use firmware offers networking equipment manufacturers a complete solution for immediate application in new system designs that will enable revenue-generating services. ¶ The CX27470 is the second generation of TSP, the industry's first programmable, traffic management and internetworking engine to offer wire-speed performance for gigabit-scale packet and cell networking equipment. The CX27470, with a uniprocessor architecture and multiple hardware assist engines, adapts the protocol and flow of up to 64,000 input traffic streams to managed traffic streams in an output data path. The CX27470 TSP can define traffic streams as packets or cells, allowing it to manage a wide range of asynchronous transfer mode (ATM), packet-over-SONET (POS), frame relay and multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) applications up to OC-12 rates.

¶ About Mindspeed Technologies(TM)

¶ With headquarters in Newport Beach, Mindspeed Technologies Inc. designs, develops and sells semiconductor networking solutions for communications applications in enterprise, access, metropolitan and wide-area networks. ¶ The company's four 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, T/E carrier physical-layer and link-layer devices, and 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 the company at www.mindspeed.com.

¶ About Harbour Networks

¶ Harbour Networks Limited was founded in 2000; it has been continuously focusing in broadband IP and optical Ethernet fields since its inception. Its revenue reached 1 billion RMB in 2003, increased by 122%. Projected revenue is 2 billion RMB in 2004. Harbour Networks has 1,500 employees; 850 are engineers. Harbour Networks has applied for 105 patents and 16 software copyrights. ¶ Harbour Networks has launched 10G core routers and switches, ADSL/VDSL broadband access equipment, soft switch and NGN large-scaled integrated access solutions, etc. Harbour products have been deployed to serve telecom carriers such as China Telecom, China Netcom, China Mobile, China Unicom and China Railcom and government, education, finance and electrical power industries. At the same time, Harbour Networks has penetrated into overseas markets such as North America, Japan, Hong Kong and Southeastern Asia, making every effort to become a trustworthy 10G IP networking solution provider.

¶ 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: the cyclical nature of the semiconductor industry and the markets addressed by the company's and its customers' products; availability of capital needed for the company's business; demand for and market acceptance of new and existing products; successful development of new products; the timing of new product introductions; the availability of manufacturing capacity; pricing pressures and other competitive factors; fluctuations in manufacturing yields; product obsolescence; the ability to develop and implement new technologies and to obtain protection for the related intellectual property; the successful implementation of the company's expense reduction and restructuring initiatives; the ability to attract and retain qualified personnel; and the uncertainties of litigation, as well as other risks and uncertainties, including those detailed from time to time in the company's Securities and Exchange Commission filings. These forward-looking statements are made only as of the date hereof, and the company undertakes no obligation to update or revise the forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

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