BRECIS debuts first multi-service processor architectureSan Jose 05 March 2001 BRECIS Communications, a communications company focused on leading-edge, broadband multi-service network processor architectures for the "last mile," today unveiled the world's first "Multi-Service Processor" (MSP) architecture. The BRECIS architecture is expected to make possible a new class of powerful but cost-effective network processors that uniquely enable multiple, diverse applications such as voice telephony, video, and data to be delivered to customer premises with the requisite levels of quality of service.
The BRECIS Multi-Service Processor is particularly ideal for the integrated
access equipment that will be required in enterprises or small offices to "break
out" from the multi-service digital data stream various combinations of voice
telephony channels, high-speed Internet access, and a variety of other planned
services such as streaming video.
According to Dataquest, the worldwide market for voice-over-packet services
alone - just one segment of the multi-service market -- is expected to grow
from about $2 billion in 2000 to over $13 billion in 2003. This, in turn,
generates a huge opportunity for equipment manufacturers. Dataquest also expects
the annual unit shipments of broadband customer premise equipment to exceed 36
million units in 2003. Many think that this is just the tip of the iceberg, once
digital bandwidth is widely available in the last mile.
"But bandwidth alone is insufficient," said Joseph Byrne, principal analyst at
Gartner Dataquest. "Another requisite piece of technology is an economical
processor for broadband integrated access devices that can handle multiple
streams of information of different types, such as voice telephony and Internet
data."
The Multi-Service Processor architecture is a design for a new
class of network processors that are the first to affordably enable a range of
multi-service, customer-premise applications without compromising quality of
service. The architecture provides for media conversion, security, provisioning
and application flexibility.
The architecture is particularly adept at addressing several of the key problems
faced by network equipment designers today -- "jitter," random delays in the
receipt of digital data that creates a particularly offensive distortion in
voices or video, and "latency" -- end-to-end delays in the network that destroy
the normal cadence of communications. In today's networks, the built-in delays
are such that virtually no "budget" remains at the customer premise, making the
performance of the Multi-Service Processor particularly critical.
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