Mindspeed Crosspoint Switch Technology Helps Harris Corporation Optimize Core Processing, Redundancy and Efficiency for its Selenio™ Media Convergence Platform

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mindspeed Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: MSPD), a leading supplier of semiconductor solutions for network infrastructure applications, today announced that Harris Corporation (NYSE: HRS), an international communications and information technology company, has integrated Mindspeed®’s crosspoint switch technology into Selenio, the broadcast industry’s first media convergence platform.

“The Harris® Selenio platform has been designed to address the convergence of baseband and broadband signals within our customers’ facilities,” said Michael Steel, vice president, video processing and distribution, at Harris Broadcast Communications. “The integration of Mindspeed’s crosspoint technology underscores the Selenio platform’s key value propositions, including enhanced system reliability, ease of system configuration and setup and improved remote monitoring capabilities. The new Selenio platform permits our customers to switch video from slot to slot and module to module for automatic and manual failover switching. Integrating crosspoint technology within the Selenio platform enables internal routing of baseband processing to compressed IP networks without the cost and complexity of external cabling, while driving our integrated thumbnail and video streaming engine that enhances remote monitoring applications.”

Ideal for hybrid environments, Selenio uses a modular architecture to combine traditional baseband video and audio processing, video/audio compression and IP networking technology into a single, 3 Rack Unit (RU) platform. Selenio enables service providers to support content from multiple sources and deliver it over multiple paths, and handles multiple redundancy schemes (1+1 and n+1) with Standard Definition and High Definition (SD/HD) 1080p digital transmission head-end equipment. The system also enables customers to future-proof their infrastructure by providing an on-ramp to IP networks as business evolves.

“Selenio is an exciting platform for broadcast service providers, and we are excited to have played a key role in bringing it to market,” said Kurt Busch, senior vice president and general manager of the high-performance analog business unit at Mindspeed. “The combination of our powerful, fully non-blocking switching technology and low-power design gives the Selenio platform best-in-class performance and power efficiency, along with the confidence of a fully redundant failover architecture.”

The switching core of Mindspeed’s crosspoint technology enables multichannel systems to route any input to any output. The crosspoints feature robust signal-conditioning capabilities, including input equalization and output de-emphasis, to compensate for losses that a high-speed signal can incur, as well as the flexibility of per-lane configurability, which ensures top-in-class performance that is optimized for printed circuit board (PCB) traces and shielded twisted pair (STP) cables. The crosspoints’ low-power design provides a flexible power supply range while allowing unused I/O to be powered off as required. Additional power savings can be realized by using Mindspeed’s SmartPower feature, which dynamically powers-down unused portions of the switch core.

About Harris Corporation

Harris is an international communications and information technology company serving government and commercial markets in more than 150 countries. Headquartered in Melbourne, Florida, the company has approximately $6 billion of annual revenue and more than 16,000 employees — including nearly 7,000 engineers and scientists. Harris is dedicated to developing best-in-class assured communications® products, systems, and services. Additional information about Harris Corporation is available at www.harris.com.

About Mindspeed Technologies

Mindspeed designs, develops and sells semiconductor solutions for communications applications in the wireline and wireless network infrastructure, which includes enterprise networks, broadband access networks (fixed and mobile), and metropolitan and wide area networks. We have organized our solutions for these interrelated and rapidly converging networks into three families. Our communications convergence processing (CCP) products include ultra-low-power, multi-core digital signal processor (DSP) system-on-chip (SoC) products for the fixed and mobile (3G/4G/LTE) carrier infrastructure and residential and enterprise service platforms. Our high-performance analog (HPA) products solve difficult switching, timing and synchronization challenges in next-generation optical networking, enterprise storage and broadcast video transmission applications. Our wide area networking (WAN) communications portfolio helps optimize today's circuit-switched networks. Mindspeed's products are sold to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) for use in a variety of network infrastructure equipment which serves these markets.

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