Aricent Joins eNsemble™ Multi-Core Alliance to Accelerate the Adoption of End-to-End LTE Software Frameworks for Multi-Core Processors

Palo Alto, California - April 27, 2010 - Aricent®, a global innovation, technology and services company focused exclusively on communications today announced that it has become a member of the eNsemble™ Multi-Core Alliance, a premier industry organization founded to drive best-in-class innovations in multi-core parallel processing platforms and software development.  Supported by a broad base of world-class hardware and software providers, the eNsemble Multi-Core Alliance serves as the foundation upon which original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) can more effectively and more efficiently develop high-performance networking equipment using industry-leading multi-core processors. 

“Aricent is very enthusiastic about the opportunity to collaborate with the eNsemble Multi-Core Alliance membership,” said Rakesh Vij, assistant vice president at Aricent. “It is important for us to provide LTE software framework solutions for Multi-Core programming environments, which help to improve time to market and reduce development costs for our customers who develop the latest 4G infrastructure.”

Aricent provides a comprehensive portfolio of pre-packaged software and frameworks that spans devices, access, backhaul, and core networks and is designed to accelerate delivery of high quality products.

  • LTE User Equipment (UE) Software Suite – Aricent’s LTE UE Software Suite is a complete software package for device and semi-conductor vendors and is a fully optimized Layer 1, Layer 2 protocol solution. Its implementation ensures optimal power consumption, processor utilization and easy integration on multiple hardware platforms.
  • eNodeB Protocol Stacks and Framework – Aricent offers turnkey solutions for radio access, from pluggable stack software to pre-integrated and optimized software frameworks that have been benchmarked on multiple industry leading hardware platforms. Aricent’s eNBF (eNodeB Framework) serves as a robust software platform for infrastructure providers to develop a complete LTE Release 8+ compliant eNodeB of varying densities (macro/pico/femto).
  • IP Backhaul – Aricent’s IP Backhaul solution is based on our industry-proven ISS Metro platform which offers pre-integrated Layer 2 switching solutions and can be used to build LTE and IP backhaul devices such as IP RAN Aggregation devices, Internet Offload Gateways, and Metro Ethernet devices.
  • Evolved Packet Core (EPC) Protocol Stacks and Frameworks – Aricent offers EPC protocol stacks as well as frameworks for the System Architecture Evolution (SAE) Gateway and the Mobility Management Entity (MME) Gateway. These include support for QoS, high availability, lawful interception, and bearer-related features.

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“Aricent is recognized worldwide as a leading supplier of advanced software frameworks and product life-cycle services for LTE, and we welcome Aricent as a valuable member of the eNsemble Multi-Core Alliance,” said Behrooz Abdi, executive vice president and general manager at NetLogic Microsystems, a founding member of the eNsemble Multi-Core Alliance.  “By having a community of technology innovators who are respective leaders in their areas of expertise, the Alliance creates a platform on which these developers can innovate to create new, breakthrough applications and solutions that can take full advantage of the superior performance and functionality of multi-core processors.”

As a founding member of the eNsemble Multi-Core Alliance, NetLogic Microsystems (NASDAQ: NETL) is committed to an open programming model for its family of market-leading multi-core, multi-threaded processors to allow greater access and tighter coupling between networking software and the XLR®, XLS® and XLP™ multi-core processors.  This enables significant improvements in the application development efficiency of software code and overall system performance.  In addition, this enables the development of new enhanced services and applications for next-generation Internet networks that are highly optimized for multi-core, multi-threaded processors.

For more information about the eNsemble Multi-Core Alliance, please visit eNsembleAlliance.org.

About Aricent
Aricent is a global innovation, technology and services company focused exclusively on communications. Aricent combines the leading innovation capabilities of frog design with unparalleled domain expertise in communications as a strategic supplier to the world's foremost infrastructure, application and service providers. The company’s investors include Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., Sequoia Capital, The Family Office and The Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board. For more information, visit http://www.aricent.com.

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