Companies Will Deliver Pervasive Endpoint Management Providing Embedded
Service Visibility to VoIP Gateways, Set Top Boxes, and Other IP Devices
BOSTON, Sept. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Brix Networks, the leading provider of
converged service assurance solutions, and Texas Instruments Incorporated
(NYSE: TXN) (TI) today announced a collaboration and development initiative
designed to deliver pervasive IP endpoint service assurance management. The
companies' collaboration will give service providers the ability to collect
valuable performance information on an unprecedented scale, and provide
crucial, last-mile visibility into the quality of experience of providers'
revenue-generating offerings, including Voice over Internet Protocol
(VoIP), IP television (IPTV), and advanced data services.
"TI has shipped more than 350 million ports across IP phones,
residential modems and gateways, set top boxes, and carrier-class
equipment," said Debbie Greenstreet, director of service provider strategy,
Texas Instruments. "Working together with Brix Networks, our PIQUA(TM)
system automates the process of gathering IP performance metrics and
converts this data into actionable information. This integration empowers
providers, enterprises, and equipment manufacturers to dramatically improve
their subscribers' and users' quality of experience and reduce overall
network operating costs."
TI technology provides functional elements that form the foundation of
the company's PIQUA real-time, IP quality management system. Based on TI's
digital signal processor (DSP) technology and embedded software solutions,
TI's PIQUA system utilizes sophisticated, real-time calculations to
instantly assess quality parameters related to the user's experience,
allowing both equipment manufacturers and service providers to
automatically and dynamically adapt to changing conditions and make
adjustments which today are either impossible or done manually.
In addition to a comprehensive set of active tests and live service
monitoring, Brix Networks' BrixWorx(TM) central-site correlation and
reporting engine collects key performance indicator (KPI) information --
such as availability, bandwidth, packet loss, latency, jitter and call
quality, -- using various standards-based communication protocols,
including RTCP-XR, and TR-069, via the new BrixWorx Connector for TI's
PIQUA software. This information can be gathered from a wide range of
endpoint devices, including residential gateways, IP set top boxes, IP
phones, digital subscriber line (DSL) and cable gateways, and others."
Our customers are increasingly requesting a unified source of quality
and IP performance management with visibility to their various endpoints,"
noted Robert Travis, director of solutions marketing at Brix Networks. "The
Brix collaboration with TI offers a mechanism for customer satisfaction,
service performance visibility, faster problem resolution, and overall
operational efficiency improvement."
Today's announcement was made in conjunction with the Fall 2006 VON
Conference & Expo being held at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center,
September 11-14, where Brix is exhibiting in booth 1049 and Texas
Instruments is hosting a hospitality suite in room 158. A demonstration of
the joint solution, highlighting BrixWorx and TI's PIQUA system, providing
voice QoS monitoring and reporting, will be available at both companies'
respective locations at this event.
About Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments Incorporated provides innovative DSP and analog
technologies to meet our customers' real world signal processing
requirements. In addition to Semiconductor, the company includes the
Educational & Productivity Solutions business. TI is headquartered in
Dallas, Texas, and has manufacturing, design or sales operations in more
than 25 countries.
Texas Instruments is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the
symbol TXN. More information is located on the World Wide Web at
http://www.ti.com .
About Brix Networks
Brix Networks is the leading provider of converged service assurance
solutions that allow the world's largest service providers and enterprises
to offer reliable and high-quality experiences in voice, video, data, and
mobile services to their customers, partners, and employees. The company
brings a proven heritage of IP expertise unique to the service assurance
marketplace, and collaborates closely with its customers and partners to
assure the delivery of any IP-based service, over any network, to any
endpoint. For more information, visit http://www.brixnet.com , or call
978-367-5600/1-888- BRIXNET.
Trademarks
PIQUA is a trademark of Texas Instruments. Brix Networks, Brix,
Brixnet, BrixWorx, and the Brix Networks logo are trademarks of Brix
Networks, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective
owners.
SOURCE Texas Instruments Incorporated; Brix Networks, Inc.
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CONTACT:
Debbie Shemony of Texas Instruments
Incorporated, +1-301-515-6643, or dshemony@ti.com ; or Erin
Arnold of GolinHarris, +1-972-341-2506, or
earnold@golinharris.com , for Texas Instruments Incorporated; or
John H. Ricciardone of Brix Networks, Inc., +1-978-367-5757, or
jricciardone@brixnet.com . Please do not publish these numbers or
email addresses.
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