Broadcom's Advanced Satellite Communications Technology Selected By EchoStar's DISH Network(TM) Service
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Broadcom's Advanced Satellite Communications Technology Selected By
EchoStar's DISH Network(TM) Service
Advanced Modulation and Turbo Code Technology Deployed In EchoStar's
DISH Network High-Volume Set-Top Box Product Line=20
IRVINE, Calif., Dec. 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Broadcom Corporation
(NASDAQ:BRCM), a leading provider of silicon solutions enabling
broadband communications, today announced that EchoStar Communications
Corp. (NASDAQ
ISH) is using Broadcom's 8PSK (Phase Shift Keying) turbo
code technology across EchoStar's newest line of DISH Network(TM)
satellite TV receivers, including the DISH 111, DISH 311, DISH 322,
Dish Player-DVR 522, DISH 811 and Dish Player-DVR 921 products.
Broadcom's 8PSK turbo code is an advanced modulation and coding
technology that increases information throughput by 35 percent in a
given bandwidth or radio frequency link with no additional power
requirements. This capability allows EchoStar's DISH Network to
provide more programming services to subscribers using their current
dish antennas. With the help of Broadcom(R) turbo code technology in
DISH Network's new line of satellite set-top boxes, DISH Network hopes
to expand the wide variety of available video and audio programming to
include local stations for additional geographic areas, international
programming and bandwidth-hungry, high-definition TV programming.
"Our customers want access to more channels and are increasingly
requesting targeted programming and HDTV channels," said Mark Jackson,
Senior Vice President of EchoStar Technologies Corporation.
"Broadcom's turbo code technology enables us to deploy a field-proven
solution meeting the technical performance that our service offering
requires. We can provide our customers expanded services while
continuing to provide them the variety and premium quality channels
they have come to expect from DISH Network."
"The fact that EchoStar, one of the leading DBS service providers in
the U.S, has begun to use our technology across its satellite receiver
product line is a clear indication of Broadcom's ability to bring
advanced technology solutions to the cost-conscious consumer
electronics market," said Daniel A. Marotta, Vice President of
Broadcom's Broadband Communications Group. "We've invested over 3
years of effort working with EchoStar to take our 8PSK turbo code
solution from the initial specification to a rigorously tested
production ready product. It is satisfying to see our solution going
into volume deployments today which allow EchoStar to provide even more
services to their DISH Network customers."
Product Features
The BCM4500 is a highly integrated, all-digital satellite receiver that
supports BPSK, QPSK, and 8PSK modulation, operating with both advanced
modulation satellite systems and legacy QPSK systems. The advanced
modulation turbo-code forward error correction (FEC) decoder delivers
extremely high performance, approaching theoretical capacity limits,
with no requirement for external RAM. This versatile receiver
provides full variable rate operation from 1-30 Mbaud, providing
multiple operating points for optimal system deployment. Other
features include an integrated microcontroller for configuration,
acquisition and performance monitoring, and a host interface that
operates via a high-level application programmers' interface to reduce
host software development time and simplify system integration.
The BCM3440 Direct Conversion Satellite Tuner delivers superior
performance for the direct broadcast satellite market, and offers all
the advantages of standard logic CMOS process. The fact that the
BCM3440 is fabricated in CMOS technology is significant because it is a
widely available, cost-effective technology and provides a path for
integration with other Broadcom satellite products.
The BCM4500/BCM3440 chipset is available and is priced at $20 for
volume quantities. The BCM3440 is packaged in a 48-pin TQFP, while the
BCM4500 is offered in a 128-pin MQFP. The BCM94500 Advanced
Modulation reference design, which integrates the chipset, is available
today for system evaluation, test and design.
About Broadcom
Broadcom Corporation is a leading provider of highly integrated silicon
solutions that enable broadband communications and networking of voice,
video and data services. Using proprietary technologies and advanced
design methodologies, Broadcom designs, develops and supplies complete
system-on-a- chip solutions and related hardware and software
applications for every major broadband communications market. Our
diverse product portfolio includes solutions for digital cable and
satellite set-top boxes; cable and DSL modems and residential gateways;
high-speed transmission and switching for local, metropolitan, wide
area and storage networking; home and wireless networking; cellular and
terrestrial wireless communications; Voice over Internet Protocol
(VoIP) gateway and telephony systems; broadband network processors; and
SystemI/O(TM) server solutions. These technologies and products support
our core mission: Connecting everything(R).
Broadcom is headquartered in Irvine, Calif., and may be contacted at
1-949-450-8700 or at www.broadcom.com.
Safe Harbor Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform
Act of 1995:
All statements included or incorporated by reference in this release,
other than statements or characterizations of historical fact, are
forward- looking statements. These forward-looking statements are based
on our current expectations, estimates and projections about our
industry, management's beliefs, and certain assumptions made by us, all
of which are subject to change. Forward-looking statements can often be
identified by words such as "anticipates," "expects," "intends,"
"plans," "predicts," "believes," "seeks," "estimates," "may," "will,"
"should," "would," "could," "potential," "continue," similar
expressions, and variations or negatives of these words. These
forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future results and are
subject to risks, uncertainties and assumptions that could cause our
actual results to differ materially and adversely from those expressed
in any forward-looking statement.
Important factors that may cause such a difference for Broadcom in
connection with the BCM3440, BCM4500 and BCM94500 products include, but
are not limited to, general economic and political conditions and
specific conditions in the markets we address, including the continuing
significant economic slowdown and volatility in the technology sector
and semiconductor industry, trends in the broadband communications
markets in various geographic regions, and possible disruption in
commercial activities related to terrorist activity or armed conflict
in the United States and other locations; the rate at which our present
and future customers and end-users adopt Broadcom's technologies and
products in the markets for satellite set-top box applications; delays
in the adoption and acceptance of industry standards in those markets;
competitive pressures and other factors such as the qualification,
availability and pricing of competing products and technologies and the
resulting effects on sales and pricing of our products; our ability to
retain and hire key executives, technical personnel and other employees
in the numbers, with the capabilities, and at the compensation levels
needed to implement our business and product plans; the availability
and pricing of third party semiconductor foundry and assembly capacity
and raw materials; fluctuations in the manufacturing yields of our
third party semiconductor foundries and other problems or delays in the
fabrication, assembly, testing or delivery of our products; the risks
of producing products with new suppliers and at new fabrication and
assembly facilities; the timing, rescheduling or cancellation of
significant customer orders and our ability, as well as the
availability of our customers, to manage inventory; the loss of a key
customer; our ability to specify, develop or acquire, complete,
introduce, market and transition to volume production new products and
technologies in a timely manner; the timing of customer-industry
qualification and certification of our products and the risks of
non-qualification or non- certification; the volume of our product
sales and pricing concessions on volume sales; the effects of new and
emerging technologies; changes in our product or customer mix;
intellectual property disputes and customer indemnification claims and
other types of litigation risk; problems or delays that we may face in
shifting our products to smaller geometry process technologies and in
achieving higher levels of design integration; the quality of our
products and any remediation costs; the effectiveness of our expense
and product cost control and reduction efforts; the risks and
uncertainties associated with our international operations,
particularly in light of recent events; the effects of natural
disasters, public health emergencies, international conflicts and other
events beyond our control; the level of orders received that can be
shipped in a fiscal quarter; and other factors.
Our Annual Report on Form 10-K, subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form
10-Q, recent Current Reports on Form 8-K, and other Securities and
Exchange Commission filings discuss the foregoing risks as well as
other important risk factors that could contribute to such differences
or otherwise affect our business, results of operations and financial
condition. The forward-looking statements in this release speak only as
of this date. We undertake no obligation to revise or update publicly
any forward-looking statement for any reason.
Broadcom(R), the pulse logo, Connecting everything(R) and SystemI/O(TM)
are trademarks of Broadcom Corporation and/or its affiliates in the
United States and certain other countries. EchoStar(R) and DISH
Network(TM) are trademarks of EchoStar Communications Corporation. All
other trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners.
Broadcom Trade Press Contact
Laura Brandlin
Director of Marketing Communications
949-926-5108
lbrandlin@broadcom.com
Broadcom Trade Press Contact
Bill Blanning
Sr. Director, Corporate Communications
949-926-5555
blanning@broadcom.com
Broadcom Technical Contact
Stuart Thomson
Product Line Manager
949-926-6215
sthomson@broadcom.com
Broadcom Investors Relations Contact
T. Peter Andrew
Sr. Director, Investor Relations
949-926-5663
tpandrew@broadcom.com
Source: Broadcom Corporation
CONTACT: Press, Laura Brandlin, Director of Marketing Communications,
+1-949-926-5108, or lbrandlin@broadcom.com, or Bill Blanning, Sr.
Director,
Corporate Communications, +1-949-926-5555, or blanning@broadcom.com, or
Technical Contact, Stuart Thomson, Product Line Manager,
+1-949-926-6215, or
sthomson@broadcom.com, or Investors, T. Peter Andrew, Sr. Director,
Investor
Relations, +1-949-926-5663, or tpandrew@broadcom.com, all of Broadcom
Corporation=20
Web site: http://www.broadcom.com/
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Broadcom's Advanced Satellite Communications Technology Selected By
EchoStar's DISH Network(TM) Service
Advanced Modulation and Turbo Code Technology Deployed In EchoStar's
DISH Network High-Volume Set-Top Box Product Line=20
IRVINE, Calif., Dec. 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Broadcom Corporation
(NASDAQ:BRCM), a leading provider of silicon solutions enabling
broadband communications, today announced that EchoStar Communications
Corp. (NASDAQ
ISH) is using Broadcom's 8PSK (Phase Shift Keying) turbo code technology across EchoStar's newest line of DISH Network(TM)
satellite TV receivers, including the DISH 111, DISH 311, DISH 322,
Dish Player-DVR 522, DISH 811 and Dish Player-DVR 921 products.
Broadcom's 8PSK turbo code is an advanced modulation and coding
technology that increases information throughput by 35 percent in a
given bandwidth or radio frequency link with no additional power
requirements. This capability allows EchoStar's DISH Network to
provide more programming services to subscribers using their current
dish antennas. With the help of Broadcom(R) turbo code technology in
DISH Network's new line of satellite set-top boxes, DISH Network hopes
to expand the wide variety of available video and audio programming to
include local stations for additional geographic areas, international
programming and bandwidth-hungry, high-definition TV programming.
"Our customers want access to more channels and are increasingly
requesting targeted programming and HDTV channels," said Mark Jackson,
Senior Vice President of EchoStar Technologies Corporation.
"Broadcom's turbo code technology enables us to deploy a field-proven
solution meeting the technical performance that our service offering
requires. We can provide our customers expanded services while
continuing to provide them the variety and premium quality channels
they have come to expect from DISH Network."
"The fact that EchoStar, one of the leading DBS service providers in
the U.S, has begun to use our technology across its satellite receiver
product line is a clear indication of Broadcom's ability to bring
advanced technology solutions to the cost-conscious consumer
electronics market," said Daniel A. Marotta, Vice President of
Broadcom's Broadband Communications Group. "We've invested over 3
years of effort working with EchoStar to take our 8PSK turbo code
solution from the initial specification to a rigorously tested
production ready product. It is satisfying to see our solution going
into volume deployments today which allow EchoStar to provide even more
services to their DISH Network customers."
Product Features
The BCM4500 is a highly integrated, all-digital satellite receiver that
supports BPSK, QPSK, and 8PSK modulation, operating with both advanced
modulation satellite systems and legacy QPSK systems. The advanced
modulation turbo-code forward error correction (FEC) decoder delivers
extremely high performance, approaching theoretical capacity limits,
with no requirement for external RAM. This versatile receiver
provides full variable rate operation from 1-30 Mbaud, providing
multiple operating points for optimal system deployment. Other
features include an integrated microcontroller for configuration,
acquisition and performance monitoring, and a host interface that
operates via a high-level application programmers' interface to reduce
host software development time and simplify system integration.
The BCM3440 Direct Conversion Satellite Tuner delivers superior
performance for the direct broadcast satellite market, and offers all
the advantages of standard logic CMOS process. The fact that the
BCM3440 is fabricated in CMOS technology is significant because it is a
widely available, cost-effective technology and provides a path for
integration with other Broadcom satellite products.
The BCM4500/BCM3440 chipset is available and is priced at $20 for
volume quantities. The BCM3440 is packaged in a 48-pin TQFP, while the
BCM4500 is offered in a 128-pin MQFP. The BCM94500 Advanced
Modulation reference design, which integrates the chipset, is available
today for system evaluation, test and design.
About Broadcom
Broadcom Corporation is a leading provider of highly integrated silicon
solutions that enable broadband communications and networking of voice,
video and data services. Using proprietary technologies and advanced
design methodologies, Broadcom designs, develops and supplies complete
system-on-a- chip solutions and related hardware and software
applications for every major broadband communications market. Our
diverse product portfolio includes solutions for digital cable and
satellite set-top boxes; cable and DSL modems and residential gateways;
high-speed transmission and switching for local, metropolitan, wide
area and storage networking; home and wireless networking; cellular and
terrestrial wireless communications; Voice over Internet Protocol
(VoIP) gateway and telephony systems; broadband network processors; and
SystemI/O(TM) server solutions. These technologies and products support
our core mission: Connecting everything(R).
Broadcom is headquartered in Irvine, Calif., and may be contacted at
1-949-450-8700 or at www.broadcom.com.
Safe Harbor Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform
Act of 1995:
All statements included or incorporated by reference in this release,
other than statements or characterizations of historical fact, are
forward- looking statements. These forward-looking statements are based
on our current expectations, estimates and projections about our
industry, management's beliefs, and certain assumptions made by us, all
of which are subject to change. Forward-looking statements can often be
identified by words such as "anticipates," "expects," "intends,"
"plans," "predicts," "believes," "seeks," "estimates," "may," "will,"
"should," "would," "could," "potential," "continue," similar
expressions, and variations or negatives of these words. These
forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future results and are
subject to risks, uncertainties and assumptions that could cause our
actual results to differ materially and adversely from those expressed
in any forward-looking statement.
Important factors that may cause such a difference for Broadcom in
connection with the BCM3440, BCM4500 and BCM94500 products include, but
are not limited to, general economic and political conditions and
specific conditions in the markets we address, including the continuing
significant economic slowdown and volatility in the technology sector
and semiconductor industry, trends in the broadband communications
markets in various geographic regions, and possible disruption in
commercial activities related to terrorist activity or armed conflict
in the United States and other locations; the rate at which our present
and future customers and end-users adopt Broadcom's technologies and
products in the markets for satellite set-top box applications; delays
in the adoption and acceptance of industry standards in those markets;
competitive pressures and other factors such as the qualification,
availability and pricing of competing products and technologies and the
resulting effects on sales and pricing of our products; our ability to
retain and hire key executives, technical personnel and other employees
in the numbers, with the capabilities, and at the compensation levels
needed to implement our business and product plans; the availability
and pricing of third party semiconductor foundry and assembly capacity
and raw materials; fluctuations in the manufacturing yields of our
third party semiconductor foundries and other problems or delays in the
fabrication, assembly, testing or delivery of our products; the risks
of producing products with new suppliers and at new fabrication and
assembly facilities; the timing, rescheduling or cancellation of
significant customer orders and our ability, as well as the
availability of our customers, to manage inventory; the loss of a key
customer; our ability to specify, develop or acquire, complete,
introduce, market and transition to volume production new products and
technologies in a timely manner; the timing of customer-industry
qualification and certification of our products and the risks of
non-qualification or non- certification; the volume of our product
sales and pricing concessions on volume sales; the effects of new and
emerging technologies; changes in our product or customer mix;
intellectual property disputes and customer indemnification claims and
other types of litigation risk; problems or delays that we may face in
shifting our products to smaller geometry process technologies and in
achieving higher levels of design integration; the quality of our
products and any remediation costs; the effectiveness of our expense
and product cost control and reduction efforts; the risks and
uncertainties associated with our international operations,
particularly in light of recent events; the effects of natural
disasters, public health emergencies, international conflicts and other
events beyond our control; the level of orders received that can be
shipped in a fiscal quarter; and other factors.
Our Annual Report on Form 10-K, subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form
10-Q, recent Current Reports on Form 8-K, and other Securities and
Exchange Commission filings discuss the foregoing risks as well as
other important risk factors that could contribute to such differences
or otherwise affect our business, results of operations and financial
condition. The forward-looking statements in this release speak only as
of this date. We undertake no obligation to revise or update publicly
any forward-looking statement for any reason.
Broadcom(R), the pulse logo, Connecting everything(R) and SystemI/O(TM)
are trademarks of Broadcom Corporation and/or its affiliates in the
United States and certain other countries. EchoStar(R) and DISH
Network(TM) are trademarks of EchoStar Communications Corporation. All
other trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners.
Broadcom Trade Press Contact
Laura Brandlin
Director of Marketing Communications
949-926-5108
lbrandlin@broadcom.com
Broadcom Trade Press Contact
Bill Blanning
Sr. Director, Corporate Communications
949-926-5555
blanning@broadcom.com
Broadcom Technical Contact
Stuart Thomson
Product Line Manager
949-926-6215
sthomson@broadcom.com
Broadcom Investors Relations Contact
T. Peter Andrew
Sr. Director, Investor Relations
949-926-5663
tpandrew@broadcom.com
Source: Broadcom Corporation
CONTACT: Press, Laura Brandlin, Director of Marketing Communications,
+1-949-926-5108, or lbrandlin@broadcom.com, or Bill Blanning, Sr.
Director,
Corporate Communications, +1-949-926-5555, or blanning@broadcom.com, or
Technical Contact, Stuart Thomson, Product Line Manager,
+1-949-926-6215, or
sthomson@broadcom.com, or Investors, T. Peter Andrew, Sr. Director,
Investor
Relations, +1-949-926-5663, or tpandrew@broadcom.com, all of Broadcom
Corporation=20
Web site: http://www.broadcom.com/
