LSI and Aricent have expanded their strategic collaboration to accelerate the deployment of wireless and wireline networking infrastructure and enterprise networking systems to the global marketplace.
Aricent 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. Now, the two companies have extended their collaboration to wireless and additional wireline infrastructure applications.
LSI develops integrated, multicore communications platforms that enable content-rich services. LSI and Aricent expect that pre-integration of their products will enable OEMs to reduce product development cost and time to market by as much as 50%.
Currently, telecom OEMs are required to integrate software and hardware components from many different suppliers in order to create systems for service provider networks. Through early collaboration, LSI expects to enable pre-integrated, pre-optimised solutions for OEMs that reduce the time and cost of delivering systems.
C P Murali, senior vice president, OEM BU at Aricent, said: 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.
Charlie Kawwas, vice president of marketing, networking components division at LSI, said: Demand for next-generation rich media services continues to escalate, and the pace of innovation is causing product development intervals to shrink. A key element of our 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.
