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KEYMILE Selects Mindspeed Network Processor for Next-Generation Multi-Service Access Node

Posted on: Thursday, 3 June 2004, 06:00 CDT

Mindspeed's Edge Stream Processor and EdgeMaker Firmware Enable KEYMILE to Provide High Performance and Multiple Protocols for Multi-Service Access Applications

Mindspeed Technologies Inc. (Nasdaq:MSPD), a leading supplier of semiconductor solutions for network infrastructure applications, today announced that KEYMILE AG has chosen Mindspeed's Edge Stream Processor (ESP) and complementary EdgeMaker firmware for its circuit-to-packet interworking cards in its next-generation UMUX multi-service access node.

The UMUX multi-service access node is a versatile platform that helps network operators reduce capital and operating expenditures, while enabling comprehensive migration to a fully packetized environment.

"We chose the Edge Stream processor and EdgeMaker firmware from Mindspeed because of its flexible and standardized circuit-to-packet interworking services and its interoperability capabilities with third-party network components which we see as a key requirement in the context of network evolution and migration," said Christian Haas, head of product management at KEYMILE Switzerland. "We have been pleased with the collaborative working relationship between our development team and the Mindspeed product support team during the program," he added.

"We are pleased that KEYMILE has chosen to use our Edge Stream processors in its next generation multi-service access node. The flexibility and performance of our ESP products make them ideal for multi-service applications," said Kurt Michel, product manager for Mindspeed's broadband internetworking systems business unit. "Our network processor solutions will enable KEYMILE to further expand in the multi-service access market."

With UMUX, public telecommunications operators can deliver IP/Ethernet, ATM and TDM-based services from a single node. The UMUX multi-service access node includes support for IP/Ethernet, ADSL, G.SHDSL, telephony and private circuit services. UMUX offers built-in SDH, Gigabit Ethernet or ATM functionality for traffic backhaul.

Mindspeed's ESP is a network-optimized processor that combines the benefits of reduced instruction set computing (RISC) and complex instruction set computing (CISC), providing capabilities uniquely suited to network edge and access applications. The EdgeMaker firmware leverages the ESP's processing power and standard interface flexibility to provide internetworking between packet (IP, Frame), cell (ATM), and circuit-based (TDM) networks, providing a turnkey solution for an array of "any-service/any-port" applications.

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, multi-service 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 KEYMILE AG

KEYMILE is a specialist in access solutions, delivering class-leading solutions today for multi-service access, with seamless migration to packet convergence (ATM or IP) and Next Generation Network architecture.

With headquarters in Vienna, Austria, KEYMILE AG was launched in 2002 following the combining of Ascom Transmission AG and Datentechnik AG. In July 2003, KEYMILE also acquired Hanover-based ke Kommunikations-Elektronik GmbH. KEYMILE has subsidiaries worldwide and a customer base in over 100 countries.

More information can be found on the Internet at http://www.keymile.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: 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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