IP Communications

D-Link has chosen Infineon Technologies’ DSL CPE Solution to support concurrent Erasure Decoding and Retransmission for High Quality IPTV (News - Alert). D-Link already has its own CPE solution called the XWAY DANUBE based CPE and it will upgrade that with Infineon’s software extension pack.

 

Infineon Technologies AG (News - Alert), Neubiberg, Germany, offers semiconductor and system solutions addressing three central challenges to modern society: energy efficiency, communications, and security. D-Link (News - Alert) is a network specialist.

 

“Infineon’s solution helps us offer the best-in-class IPTV-ready CPE equipment to our customers. Thanks to Erasure Decoding, all customers will experience higher quality with their IPTV service, regardless of what DSLAM they are connected to,” said Kevin Wen, president D-Link Europe. “The IPTV market is exploding and quality of this service is of highest importance to the providers. Together with Infineon we can ensure best quality of service for IPTV.”

 

D-Link includes the new IPTV feature package in its next generation Triple-Play Home Gateway (News - Alert) solutions DVA-G3170i and DVA-G3060i, available this month. The IPTV feature package includes technologies like Extended Erasure Decoding and Gamma Layer Retransmission concurrently supported on a single chip.

 

Infineon maintains that the IPTV package provided by them can provide the same excellent performance even when they are offered along with other services such as the VoIP. Customers like D-Link can achieve up to two times better error protection than with a non-erasure decoding capable CPE in real world deployment scenarios.

 

According to officials, Erasure Decoding improves impulse noise immunity with no changes to the carrier DSLAM. The Gamma Layer Retransmission mechanism utilizes an intelligent traffic shaping and discrimination algorithm, in conjunction with central office (CO) equipment.

 

There are also other technologies that are included in the pack that ensures minimum delay and maximum error protection, thus improving user experience. Furthermore, an embedded Packet Processing Engine enables wire speed routing throughput for all packet sizes. This Smart Acceleration technology boosts routing performance while reducing the workload of the CPU core. For more info visit www.infineon.com