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WiMAX End-to-End IP
Quality Management |
Texas Instruments Extends
End-to-End IP Quality Management with its PIQUA™ Software for Carrier
Infrastructure
Other Topics: Broadband Wireless
Mesh Deployment, WiMAX Core Networks,
WiMAX Device Data Management
Texas Instruments
November 15, 2006
Service Providers Get Clearer Network Views for Advanced IP and
Converged Applications
Dallas, TX -- Further demonstrating its commitment to improving all forms of
Internet Protocol (IP)-based communications, Texas Instruments,
Incorporated (TI) [NYSE:TXN] today extends its PIQUA™ software with its
first implementation in media gateways for carrier networks. TI’s PIQUA
system of IP quality management elements enables service providers and
carriers to deliver an advanced level of quality to consumer and
business subscribers migrating to Internet and IP-based services. With
TI’s PIQUA elements embedded in equipment at both the customer premise
and the network, consumers using IP-based services – such as Voice over
IP (VoIP), Video over IP, IPTV and Internet-based music – will realize
exceptional quality and performance with their IP applications. For more
information on TI’s PIQUA technology, please visit www.ti.com/piqua. |
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TI’s PIQUA technology is
a standards-based system for IP quality management, using RTCP-XR and
TI-developed extensions to measure VoIP performance, with plans to
incorporate RTCP-HR and RTCP-Video for future IP applications. These
standards allow the delivery of quality metrics to a network management
and quality assurance system. The PIQUA system extends the parameters
available in these reports with custom features such as its Echo Quality
Index, providing enhanced statistics and diagnostic capabilities.
Together these features allow for the real-time response to service
degradation while providing the carrier or service provider with
extensive metrics that accurately convey the user experience.
“TI's commitment to IP quality speaks volumes about the company's belief
in not only offering high performance hardware, but also ensuring that
its customers have the most complete VoIP solution,” said William
Stofega, research manager with IDC’s VoIP Services Program. “As carriers
prepare to deliver next-generation services, like IP Multimedia
Subsystems (IMS) and fixed mobile convergence (FMC), they will need
greater access to and better views of their networks to support and
monitor the wide variety of applications delivered via broadband
connections.”
The transition to an all-IP network enables service providers to deliver
enhanced features for voice, video and data to their commercial and
residential customers. These same service providers are also confronted
with additional performance challenges, as their fixed, cellular and
broadband networks converge over IP. In order to adequately manage these
challenges, it is essential that they focus on quality of service (QoS)
parameters to best manage IP performance and their subscriber’s
experience.
The advent of IMS and other advanced services and functionality will
make QoS an even higher priority. With TI’s PIQUA technology, service
providers can adapt to changing conditions and quickly make adjustments,
enabling the discovery, monitoring and repair of their services and
networks.
“By embedding TI’s PIQUA elements in the network, service providers can
focus on meaningfully identifying potential problems and flagging and
repairing degraded service, ensuring they deliver the best IP services
and applications that their subscribers expect and demand,” said John
Warner, strategic marketing manager for TI’s Communications
Infrastructure group. “Ensuring voice quality in an all-IP network is a
complex issue, as there are many opportunities for problematic service,
including signaling errors, packet loss, echo, delay and dropped calls.
TI’s PIQUA technology combines a variety of indicators that identify
each of these issues to offer service providers a more complete view of
their network, enabling them to best protect their initial investments,
reduce customer turnover and continue to add new subscribers.”
TI’s PIQUA system is based on the company’s digital signal processor (DSP)
technology and embedded software solutions that provide a real-time
distributed system of complete quality management elements that monitor
and improve the quality of IP-based services, such as voice, data and
video. This unique quality management tool collects data from a variety
of endpoints, including user devices, IP set-top boxes and residential
and media gateways. These endpoints use DSPs to execute software, which
encode voice and perform the signal processing required to facilitate
the transmission of voice between various networks.
With TI’s PIQUA-embedded elements represented in more endpoints
throughout the network and CPE devices, better quality can be delivered
with additional information available for monitoring and analysis.
Endpoints with TI’s PIQUA elements also provide a valuable resource for
managing today’s complex IP networks.
The flexible PIQUA system enables TI’s customers to use their own
algorithms and management features to determine which parameters are
most important for their network quality management. This ensures that
manufacturers can implement their own quality features to better
differentiate their products from competitive offerings while making
their solutions ready for quick deployment in advanced IP networks as
more operators begin demanding better quality metrics.
Additionally, service providers can determine which parameters they most
need analyzed and corrected to best meet their customers’ needs and
requirements.
Availability
TI’s PIQUA technology is available today and included in select TI
carrier infrastructure products shipping to customers around the world.
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
www.ti.com.
Trademarks
PIQUA is a trademark of Texas Instruments. All other trademarks and
registered trademarks are property of their respective owners. |
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