Texas Instruments and AudioCodes Jointly Promote Voice over IP Processors for Range of VoIP Applications

DALLAS and LOD, Israel, May 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI), the world leader in digital signal processors (DSPs) and AudioCodes , a leading provider of Voice over Packet (VoP) technologies and Voice Network products, announced today that they will jointly promote AudioCodes' Voice over IP (VoIP) processors, based on TI DSPs. This announcement furthers the two companies' longstanding relationship and enables AudioCodes to provide the highest quality VoIP solutions to their customers more quickly and efficiently.

"AudioCodes considers the recent acceleration of VoIP adoption in the market an excellent opportunity to utilize TI's proven power to enhance the promotion of our solution," said Shaul Weissman, Managing Director of VoP Processors at AudioCodes. "Combining our field-proven, diverse and more than eight-year-old VoIP solution with optimized silicon from the leading DSP vendor offers OEMs a very high level of confidence as to the quality and roadmap of our products."

AudioCodes has a wide variety of solutions for Voice over IP applications, starting from the AC494 System on a Chip for IP phones and CPE, through the AC490, an 8 and 12 channel DSP for IP-PBX applications, and up to 64 and 102 channels in the AC491 for digital gateways and carrier grade equipment. As these solutions are based on TI's TMS320C55x(TM) DSP generation and share uniform API software, vendors can develop a wide variety of VoIP solutions based on the same state-of-the-art hardware and software.

"As a valued TI DSP customer, AudioCodes has been successfully selling VoIP solutions for almost a decade," said Ashley Johnston, director of business development, TI's communications infrastructure group. "By joining forces in promoting AudioCodes' solution, and having our DSPs form the basis for many of their products, TI will continue to serve the fast growing market for VoIP applications in broader ways than ever before.

As a leading provider of VoIP technology, TI has shipped over 125 million VoIP ports worldwide for the IP phone, customer premise equipment (CPE) gateway and high-density infrastructure markets. Products incorporating TI's technology are deployed by service providers throughout the world and power billions of minutes of VoIP calls every month.

AudioCodes and TI launched their recent cooperation with a joint seminar in Israel that will continue in the Far East and Europe during the latter half of the year. More information will be available at the companies' respective websites: http://www.ti.com/voip and http://www.audiocodes.com/ .

About AudioCodes' AC494 SoC

AudioCodes' AC494 family of System on a Chip (SoC) provides IP phone and customer premises equipment (CPE) manufacturers with cutting-edge VoIP processing system capabilities. The AC494 family combines a MIPS(TM) Controller, DSP and a rich set of peripherals such as Codecs, Ethernet MACs and Phys, integrated 3-port switch and more. Several silicon derivatives of this family allow cost optimization per application.

About Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments Incorporated provides innovative DSP and analog technologies to meet our customers' real world signal processing requirements. In addition to Semiconductor, the company's businesses include Sensors & Controls, and Educational & Productivity Solutions. TI is headquartered in Dallas, Texas, and has manufacturing, design or sales operations in more than 25 countries.

Texas Instruments is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol TXN. More information is located on the World Wide Web at http://www.ti.com/ .

About AudioCodes

AudioCodes Ltd. enables the new voice infrastructure by providing innovative, reliable and cost-effective Voice over Packet technology and Voice Network products to OEMs, network equipment providers and system integrators. AudioCodes provides its customers and partners with a diverse range of flexible, comprehensive media gateway and media processing technologies, based on VoIPerfect(TM) -- AudioCodes' underlying, best-of-breed, core media gateway architecture. The company is a market leader in voice compression technology and is a key originator of the ITU G.723.1 standard for the emerging Voice over IP market. AudioCodes' voice network products feature media gateway and media server platforms for packet-based applications in the wireline, wireless, broadband access, and enhanced voice services markets. AudioCodes' enabling technology products include VoIP and CTI communication boards, VoIP media gateway processors and modules, and CPE devices. Its customers include the leading telecom and data network equipment providers globally. AudioCodes' international headquarters and R&D facilities are located in Israel, with U.S. headquarters in San Jose, California. Additional offices are in Boston (MA), Chicago (IL), Research Triangle Park (NC), Somerset (NJ), Beijing, London, Mexico City, Paris and Tokyo. For more information on AudioCodes, visit http://www.audiocodes.com/ .

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Statements concerning AudioCodes' and TI's business outlook or future economic performance; product introductions and plans and objectives related thereto; and statements concerning assumptions made or expectations as to any future events, conditions, performance or other matters, may be considered "forward-looking statements" as that term is defined under U.S. Federal securities laws. Forward-looking statements are subject to various risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those stated in such statements. These risks, uncertainties and factors include, but are not limited to: the effect of global economic conditions in general and conditions in AudioCodes' and TI's industries and target markets in particular; shifts in supply and demand; market acceptance of new products and continuing products' demand; the impact of competitive products and pricing on AudioCodes' and TI's and their customers' products and markets; timely product and technology development/upgrades and the ability to manage changes in market conditions as needed; and other factors detailed in AudioCodes' and TI's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. AudioCodes and TI assume no obligation to update the information in this release.

Trademarks

TMS320C55x is a trademark of Texas Instruments. AudioCodes, AC, Ardito, AudioCoded, NetCoder, TrunkPack, VoicePacketizer, MediaPack, Stretto, Mediant, VoIPerfect and IPmedia are trademarks or registered trademarks of AudioCodes Limited. All other products or trademarks are property of their respective owners.