Teldat selects Celenos 802.

11n Chipset for Next-Generation Multimedia Home Gateways

CL1800 carrier-grade Wi-Fi solution enables whole-home HD video wireless distribution to set top boxes and portable devices

IPTV World Forum 2010, Booth #213, London March 23 , 2010 Celeno Communications, a leading provider of semiconductors for multimedia Wi-Fi home networking applications, today announced that Teldat, a leading European manufacturer of broadband equipment, has selected Celeno CL1800 802.11n chipset to enable its triple play gateway to support in-home IPTV wireless distribution. Teldat will deploy the Celeno powered gateway world-wide in IP-enabled multi-service optical and A/VDSL access networks, to support multimedia services such as multichannel high definition IPTV, internet access and digital enhanced cordless telecommunications (DECT). Service providers deploying IPTV services today face significant challenges with respect to distribution of HD IPTV streams throughout the home. Existing wired technologies lack the ease of installation, ubiquity and portability required to support a standard, scalable HD home networking infrastructure covering any room or location around the house. Wireless distribution of HD IPTV over carrier-grade 5GHz 802.11n Wi-Fi is becoming the solution of choice for many service providers. The CL1800 System on Chip (SoC) quadruples the video throughput/range combination of typical 802.11n systems, consistently reaching over 120Mbps of video throughput at the edge of the home with zero packet errors and carrier-grade interference resiliency. Powered by the OptimizAIR features suite, the CL1800 meets carrier grade performance and Quality of Service rd requirements even with 3 party Wi-Fi client devices. This allows it to distribute up to 8 HD streams to various types of set top boxes, laptops, Wi-Fi USB dongle enabled devices, and the like, independently of their Wi-Fi silicon make. The CL1800 is a highly integrated SoC combining an 802.11n 2x3 or 3x3 MAC/PHY baseband, dual band radio, a powerful CPU and variety of interfaces. This architecture gives the gateway vendor a powerful, yet cost effective and compact solution. The SoC includes a powerful processor and complementary software, enabling it to run as a completely self-contained unit. This frees the gateway host CPU from Wi-Fi processing, hence simplifying integration. Teldat's iRouter is a revolutionary product designed to increase carrier revenues per user in broadband environments. It is based on a completely original proposal: the integration of a high speed triple play home multimedia gateway with an open platform that can simultaneously host added value applications, either from the carrier of from third parties. The next generation of broadband services that will run on Teldat's iRouter include home automation, multimedia content management and secure remote access, in-home cell phone integration and backup, social network integration, e-health, etc.

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Designed for FTTH, VDSL2 and ADSL2+ networks and incorporating 802.11n, DECT CAT-iq, IPv6 and DLNA, the iRouter family of gateways include all functions and services necessary for the digital home communications needs in one single device. Celenos CL1800 802.11n SoC was the ideal choice for our next generation multimedia gateways, said Ignacio Loizaga Matas, VP Marketing at Teldat Based on the feedback from our service providers customers, it was clear that wireless home networking is the technology of choice for in-home IPTV distribution. The CL1800 with its robust video over Wi-Fi performance allows service providers to distribute consistently multiple HD IPTV streams throughout the home and save on costly installation truck rolls. Teldat is known for its innovative broadband communications equipment and their selec tion of the CL1800 further validates the performance and quality of the Celeno technology, said Lior Weiss, Celenos VP Marketing. Using Celenos carrier grade Wi-Fi technology, Teldat is one of the first vendors to provide a broadband gateway enabled with 5GHz 802.11n technology for HD video distribution. This enables consumers with the usability advantages of Wi-Fi and the evolution to IPTV streaming to portable devices. The technology The CL1800 is powered by the OptimizAIR features suite, which combines several innovative technologies that work together intricately at all layers to boost 802.11n performance and throughput, as needed to support whole-home HD video streaming. These include Transmit Beam Forming MIMO for increased range, TDM Scheduled MAC to support multiple clients with the appropriate QoS, channel aware rate and power selection for zero packet errors, real time antenna diversity for robustness and interference resiliency based on adaptive interference detection, fast channel selection, and dynamic 20/40MHz operation. The OptimizAIR expert system drives up performance by applying real time packet-by-packet channel estimation to each one of those elements for fully channel-aware silicon. About Celeno Celeno is a leading provider of high performance Wi-Fi chips for HD multimedia and entertainment home networking applications. Powered by Celeno's system-on-chip (SoC) and its OptimizAIR technology, home gateways, multi-room DVRs and media servers can distribute multiple and simultaneous HD video streams to standard set-top boxes, PCs, television sets and other Wi-Fi enabled consumer devices. Founded in 2005, the company has offices and representatives in EMEA, the U.S. and Asia-Pacific and is backed by blue chip investors including Cisco Systems, Greylock Partners and Pitango Venture Capital. www.celeno.com About Teldat Teldat Group is a leading European telecommunications equipment manufacturer, operating in more than 35 countries worldwide. Products include Residential Gateways, Corporate Access Routers, Wireless WAN Routers, IP Telephony Solutions, DWDM Multiplexors and Physical Security Devices. Teldat's products serve in critical applications of the most demanding carriers and corporations worldwide. www.teldat.com