Digital 5 and Broadcom Collaborate on Development of Digital Media Server Solution5 January 2005
The companies are developing a complete hardware and software platform to
help accelerate the time-to-market for products by original design
manufacturers (ODMs) and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) addressing
the attached storage needs of digital media content throughout the home.
The joint collaboration is focused on developing and bringing to market a
digital media server platform based on the Broadcom BCM4780 Network Attached
Storage on-a-Chip (NASoC) chip with software integration, validation and
customization for new products to be introduced in 2005.
The continued growth in the amount of digital entertainment content such
as video, music and digital photographs has led to the need for solutions that
provide cost-effective methods for storing, streaming and protecting these
files on home networks. Broadcom and Digital 5 will offer a platform to
ensure that OEMs can respond to this need by rapidly bringing NAS-based media
server products to market.
"We are very excited to collaborate with Digital 5 to bring advanced media
server capabilities to our customers," said David Murray, Director of Business
Development for Broadcom's NASoC products. "Digital 5 provides a proven
solution in the streaming media space, which combined with Broadcom's NASoC
solution will provide OEMs and ODMs with a turn-key solution for producing
consumer electronic products for the storing and streaming of multimedia
content throughout the home."
"We are pleased to collaborate with Broadcom to support their connected
home vision and enable technology essential for sharing, storing and
protecting a household's personal and commercial digital media files," said
Michael Harris, president and COO of Digital 5. "Our solution enables
OEMs/ODMs to leverage a complete reference platform and accelerate time-to-
market for devices designed to manage the increasing digital media content in
the connected digital home."
The Digital 5 technology supports industry standards such as UPnP, HTTP,
RTP, NMPR and 802.11g. Digital 5 provides an application customization layer
creating the ability to easily add additional application functionality and
utilize the customizable user interface to expose more features, enhance the
device capabilities and enrich the user experience.
About Digital 5, Inc.
Digital 5, Inc. (Digital 5) is a leading provider of software enabling
both wireless and wired sharing of multimedia content among networked consumer
electronics (CE) devices. Digital 5's software technology is used to enable
new products for existing CE categories, such as DVD players, televisions, and
stereo systems, giving them the capability to access media content over a home
network and the Internet. These products allow consumers to enjoy their music,
digital pictures, or video in the comfort of their various home entertainment
locations.
About Broadcom
Broadcom Corporation is a leading provider of highly integrated
semiconductor solutions that enable broadband communications and networking of
voice, video and data services. We design, develop and supply complete system-
on-a-chip (SoC) solutions incorporating digital, analog, radio frequency (RF),
microprocessor and digital signal processing (DSP) technologies, as well as
related hardware and software system-level applications. Our diverse product
portfolio addresses every major broadband communications market and includes
solutions for digital cable and satellite set-top boxes; high definition
television (HDTV); cable and digital subscriber line (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 and security
processors; and SystemI/O(TM) server solutions. These technologies and
products support our core mission: Connecting everything(R).
Source: PR Newswire
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