Qualcomm, Mindspeed offer embedded video-over-Wi-Fi service

Qualcomm Atheros and software systems provider Mindspeed Technologies have launched embedded video-over-Wi-Fi service and an integrated board using Qualcomm Atheros' three-stream 802.11n chip, the AR9580. Qualcomm Atheros' Wi-Fi services are integrated with Mindspeed's Comcerto 1000 broadband packet processors, providing a development experience OEMs and ODMs. The embedded service allows processing voice- and video-over-IP media streams in enhanced media gateways and systems performing the media resource function processing (MRFP) for IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) networks. Key applications include video and voice content conversion in support of telephony, MMS and video ad insertion. The service also is suitable for applications such as FTTH Ethernet uplink gateways supporting 1 Gbps data rates and voice and video services. These gateways are important to carriers that deliver broadband access to residential customers via FTTH. Mindspeed's media processor SoC services integrate two ARM11 processors, acceleration engines and a set of interfaces. Companion software includes a range of codecs supporting VoIP. The joint reference design for embedded video-over-Wi-Fi services is available now.