Linux-based VoIP gateway designs boast 1Gbps throughputs

Arabella and Kenati will jointly create a series of VoIP-enabled SOHO (small-office, home-office) gateway reference designs said to offer 10 times more throughput than competing products.

 

 The designs will combine Arabella's Expedited Fast Path (EFP) microcode and custom Linux implementation with Kenati's Network Persona (NP) application stacks for gateways, wireless routers, DSL modems, VoIP equipment, and VPN routers.

Arabella's EFP product comprises microcode for the QUICC or CPM engines found in Freescale NPUs (network processor units), along with an AMP (asymmetrical multi-processing) Linux implementation capable of segregating slow- and fast-path functions. Fast-path operations are "entirely implemented in microcode" and are "aggressively optimized," the company says, leaving the NPU's PowerPC core "almost entirely free for user applications."

Kenati's NP Suites target "converged" gateway devices with integrated VoIP (voice-over-IP) capabilities. Its NP product family comprises five Linux-based designs, including:

  • "NP Base Platform," targeting M2M (machine-to-machine) applications, RFID devices, and vending machines

  • "NP Gateway," targeting SOHO (small-office, home-office) gateways, routers, and set-top boxes

  • "NP Wireless Platform," targeting wireless gateways and access points

  • "NP VoIP," targeting phones, terminal adapters, and PBXs

  • "NP VPN," targeting secure gateways
Kenati says its NP Suites enjoy broad embedded architecture support and are easy to configure and customize. The Suites include web interfaces, as well as a "Cisco-like" command-line interface for developers and network admins, it says.
 

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Posted by Dal on May 31, 2006 11:11 AM |
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