Centillium Communications announced that NEC has selected its Entropia III VoIP media gateway solution to power advanced IP services for NGN and 3G wireless infrastructure deployments. NEC chose Centillium's Entropia VoIP solution because it provides carrier-quality voice and media functions, as well as powerful processing, efficient power usage and flexibility.

"We look to Centillium to provide us with leading-edge technology and resources as we deliver NGN, fixed-mobile convergence and IP Multimedia Subsystem services that combine voice and data capabilities on both wireless and wireline networks," said Toshio Suzuki, assistant general manager, NEC Communication Systems. "Entropia III's superior processing power, low power consumption and technically advanced software features provide us with clear competitive advantages as we deploy both NGN and 3G wireless infrastructures for carriers in Japan and around the world."

The Entropia solution provides an advantage over traditional Digital Signal Processor (DSP) by delivering more than two and a half times the wireline and wireless codec capacity at less than half the power-per-channel. Integrating six patented SigmaPlus DSPs as well as four RISC network processors, the Entropia processor - coupled with the 3G-NGN software suite - provides carrier-grade voice quality, critical to service providers rolling out NGN VoIP offerings. With a 1,008 full feature VoIP channel density, Centillium is able to offer a powerful voice processor in an optimized and flexible architecture tuned specifically for voice convergence processing.

The Entropia solution supports IMS Media Gateway Functions (MGF) for CDMA/3GPP2 or GSM/3GPP applications, along with all wireline requirements. Additionally, Entropia supports IMS Media Resource Function Processors (MRFP) delivering such features as tones, unlimited announcements, conferencing and gaming.