LSI Corporation and Aricent have announced an expansion of their joint efforts to accelerate the deployment of wireless and wireline networking infrastructure and enterprise networking systems to the global marketplace.

 

Aricent (News - Alert) and LSI currently offer pre-integrated software stacks for multi-service business gateways that run on LSI APP communications processors and have co-developed broadband networking software with IPv6 capabilities.

 

LSI Corporation (News - Alert) officials said that the two companies now have extended their collaboration to wireless and additional wireline infrastructure applications.

“Aricent is a global innovation, technology and services company with a goal of providing OEMs with comprehensive software frameworks and engineering services, which ultimately reduce development risk and costs, while speeding time to market of wireless and wireline infrastructure solutions,” said C.P. Murali, senior vice president, OEM BU at Aricent, at press time.

 

Murali said that the company’s laser focus differentiates it as a unique supplier.

 

“Demand for next-generation rich media services continues to escalate, and the pace of innovation is causing product development intervals to shrink,” said Charlie Kawwas, vice president of marketing for LSI’s “Networking Components” division.

 

Kawwas said that a key element of the company’s strategy is to partner with global providers like Aricent who can provide standard products and custom software services so OEMs can rapidly develop next-generation “solutions” at significantly lower cost.

LSI Corporation is a provider of silicon, systems and software technologies that bring people, information and digital content together.

 

The company offers a broad portfolio of capabilities and services including custom- and standard-product ICs, adapters, systems and software that are trusted by some of the world’s best-known brands to power leading solutions in the storage and networking markets.

Recently LSI Corporation had announced immediate availability of LSI Broadband Access Software Release 8.1 for the family of LSI APP communications processors.

 

The new software supports the IPv6 protocol, including enhanced security and quality of service management capabilities that are crucial to the effective delivery of services over IPv6, in addition to supporting IPv4 video, voice and data services.