Scientific-Atlanta is using Broadcom’s VoIP chips and software for the development of next generation VoIP adapters. The products are aimed at global markets.
Broadcom is already a supplier of chips and software to Scientific-Atlanta for its digital interactive set-top boxes, voice modems (EMTAs) high speed data modems & wireless residential gateways. Scientific-Atlanta has extensive relationships with both cable multiservice operators (MSOs) and incumbent voice service providers.httop://www.broadcom.com
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You just read about Broadcom. One of the companies whose work it now carries:
Sandburst built Carrier-class Ethernet switch and traffic-manager silicon. What became of it?
Sandburst brought Carrier-class Ethernet switch and traffic-manager silicon to Semiconductor. That work was distinctive enough to lead to its acquisition by Broadcom for US$80M. The standalone name now passes into the archive — but the team and technology continue inside Broadcom today. One of 430 names here whose work outlived the company.
You just read about VoIP. Here is what it replaced:
POTS / PSTN served from 1876. What ultimately replaced it?
POTS / PSTN analog voice carried as a continuous electrical signal over a copper loop to a circuit-switched exchange, which set up an end-to-end dedicated path for the duration of the call. Its job passed to VoIP — but the problem it solved, and the ideas it proved, live on in what replaced it. The standard rests here in the archive. One of 198 technologies here that opened a door and then held it for the next.
