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Mindspeed Technologies and ProSyst Software have announced a strategic collaboration to co-market optimized OSGi SoC solutions to service providers and product manufacturers worldwide. ProSyst now commercially supports Mindspeed's Comcerto 1000 Series broadband gateway packet processor and Mindspeed will use ProSyst's mBS Smart Home software solutions as its OSGi framework of choice.

"The combination of ProSyst's OSGi implementation on Mindspeed's Comcerto 1000 packet processor provides customers with a field-proven solution for complete residential gateway system," said Alex Aali, director of customer premises equipment (CPE) strategic alliances at Mindspeed. "Together, ProSyst and Mindspeed will help our common customers develop advanced residential gateways that can easily and seamlessly deliver exciting, sophisticated capabilities to end users without any degradation in core system performance. These capabilities include delivering triple-play services throughout the home, while simultaneously supporting remotely-managed value-added OSGi applications from carriers or third-party providers."

Mindspeed and ProSyst have worked together to optimize system performance using OSGi on Mindspeed's unique dual-core asymmetric processing platform. Typical fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) packet processors run all tasks on a single core or implement a symmetric multi-core architecture in which various applications can consume most available system resources and, in extreme cases, disrupt core system software and degrade quality of service for mission-critical applications. Mindspeed's unique dual-core architecture allows each processor to run completely independently of the other. The Comcerto 1000 SoC's Media Stream Processor (MSP) remains dedicated to core gateway functionalities, such as IPTV routing and voice processing, while the SoC's Application and Control Processor (ACP) independently runs OSGi-based applications, thus creating a logical and physical partitioning.

Mindspeed's Comcerto 1000 processor and ProSyst's OSGi / ProSyst mBS Smart Home software provide a multi-application execution environment that can run multiple software components simultaneously and deliver a robust and very resource-efficient, multi-purpose facility. Moreover, ProSyst's OSGi adds sophisticated remote-management capabilities, including software and firmware lifecycle management, provisioning, remote configuration and remote monitoring. These capabilities help to significantly reduce the operating costs of broadband value-added service delivery.

"Mindspeed's Comcerto 1000 processor provides the ideal platform for delivering the benefits of OSGi," said Daniel Schellhoss, executive vice president at ProSyst. "OEMs can now use OSGi on the Mindspeed Comcerto platform to effectively differentiate their products, while enabling service providers to capitalize on revenue-generating applications. In addition, service providers can use this innovative combination to streamline the delivery of new offerings and firmware upgrades. Finally, users will benefit from simplified access to an emerging wealth of exciting, easy-to-download applications -- all at top system throughput and performance."

Mindspeed will be showcasing the jointly developed reference solution at the Broadband World Forum 2010 conference, October 26-28, 2010, in Booth #D17 at the CNIT La Defense in Paris, France. The company will show its Comcerto 1000 SoC processor running an interactive ProSyst OSGi home-security demonstration, while also distributing multiple simultaneous high-definition (HD) video streams, HD voice-over-IP (VoIP) service, and gigabit data transfer rates, with robust quality of service (QoS) and no degradation in the user's quality of experience.