From: morning18@alerts.equityalert.com
To: alewis@ect.enron.com
Date: 2001-10-18 12:46:15+00:00
Subject: Your News Alert for TXN


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Texas Instruments and RADVISION Team to Offer Fully Integrated Silicon and Software Solutions for IP Phones and GatewaysBundled VoIP Solution for MEGACO and H.323-based IP Phones and Gateways Enables Faster Time to Market and Reduced Costs   DALLAS and MAHWAH, N.J., Oct 18, 2001 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE: TXN), the leader in digital signal processors (DSPs) and software solutions for voice-over-packet applications, and RADVISION (Nasdaq: RVSN), the leading provider of award-winning, industry-standard products and technology for real-time voice and video over IP (V2oIPTM), today announced an agreement to bundle RADVISION's MEGACO/H.248 in TI's IP Phone and VoIP residential/small office home office (SOHO) gateway solutions. TI is already offering RADVISION's H.323 enabling technology in their voice over IP (VoIP) Phone chipset. Customers purchasing a VoIP solution from TI will now have direct access to the RADVISION protocol toolkits that best suit their development needs. This approach shortens new product time-to-market and reduces development costs.   "This offering includes all the necessary silicon components, software and even a blueprint of how to build your IP Phone or residential/SOHO gateway for manufacturers. This solution will make it simpler, quicker and easier for developers of VoIP communication devices," said Gadi Tamari, CEO of RADVISION. "Companies can concentrate on developing unique capabilities and innovative industrial designs for their devices because programming intense functionality and intelligence have been developed and integrated for them in the chipset. The Texas Instruments-RADVISION solution reduces the need for complex engineering and testing which are some of the biggest bottlenecks in developing new technologies."   "TI is dedicated to providing the silicon and software our customers require to address the needs of the VoIP market which is why we're working with RADVISION to bundle MEGACO and H.323 with our existing solutions," said Bill Simmelink, general manager, VoIP Business Unit at Texas Instruments. "Customers will benefit from the incorporation of RADVISION's protocol toolkits with TI's IP Phone and VoIP gateway solutions to shorten their time-to-market and provide access to best-of-class technologies for their products."   About the Texas Instruments-RADVISION Solution   Both the IP Phone and residential/SOHO gateway solutions feature low-power, highly-integrated processors with TI DSP cores, RISC processors, and Telogy Software(TM). TI's IP Phone solution features the TMS320C5472 and TI's VoIP codec, and the VoIP residential/SOHO gateway solution features the TNETV1010 processor. The TI-RADVISION solution offers manufacturers all the system software and support needed for quick and easy development of IP Phones and gateways.   TI's Telogy Software products feature a variety of standards-based packet-network protocols and user interfaces for customer applications. The VoIP software includes signaling, telephony and protocol-processing modules as well as network-management APIs. The software addresses quality-of-service issues, such as network delay, jitter and lost packets, and incorporates compression, line-echo cancellation (G.168-compliant) and tone detection.   Customers can license a specific embedded RADVISION toolkit that meets their development requirements. RADVISION has models for MEGACO and H.323-based IP Phones and H.323 media gateways and trunking gateways.   About Texas Instruments   For OEM's developing broadband communications solutions, TI's advanced signal processing-based silicon and software platforms deliver the optimal performance, lower power consumption, and system level integration required to rapidly deploy differentiated next generation products for cable modems, digital subscriber line (xDSL) modems, integrated access devices (IADs), Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) gateways, carrier infrastructure, and home and office wireless networking. See www.ti.com/sc/broadband   Texas Instruments Incorporated is the world leader in digital signal processing and analog technologies, the semiconductor engines of the Internet age. The company's businesses also include sensors and controls, and educational and productivity solutions. TI is headquartered in Dallas, Texas and has manufacturing 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 web site at http://www.ti.com.   About RADVISION   RADVISION is a leading provider of products and technology for real-time voice, video, and data communications over packet networks; this includes the Internet and other Internet Protocol (IP) based networks. Recognized universally as the experts in real-time voice and video over IP (V2oIP), RADVISION offers the broadest and most complete set of enabling technology and networking systems needed to enable enterprises and service providers to migrate their voice and video communications from traditional telephone networks to new converged networks. Today, hundreds of thousands of end-users around the world communicate over next-generation networks, using IP-centric products and solutions built around RADVISION products and technology. RADVISION's multi-protocol software toolkits for developers of IP communications include: SIP, MEGACO, MGCP, and H.323; RADVISION's V2oIP networking products include: gateways, conferencing bridges, and gatekeeper applications. For more information, please visit RADVISION's website at http://www.radvision.com.   This press release contains forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from these forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, general business conditions in the industry, changes in demand for products, the timing and amount or cancellation of orders and other risks detailed from time to time in RADVISION's and Texas Instruments filings with the Securities Exchange Commission, including RADVISION's Annual Report on Form 20-F.   All trademarks recognized.                     MAKE YOUR OPINION COUNT -  Click Here                http://tbutton.prnewswire.com/prn/11690X24134573  SOURCE Texas Instruments and RADVISION   CONTACT:          David Seligman, Chief Financial Officer, +972-3-645-5446,                   cfo@radvision.com, or Sandra Fathi, Director Corporate Communications,                   +1-201-529-4300, ext. 301, sfathi@radvision.com, both of RADVISION; Jody                   Burfening or Sanjay Hurry of Lippert-Heilshorn & Associates, +1-212-838-3777,                   jbs@lhai.com, for RADVISION; Marisa Speziale, Media Relations Program Manager,                   Texas Instruments, +1-214-480-1795, m-speziale@ti.com URL:              http://www.radvision.com http://www.prnewswire.com  Copyright (C) 2001 PR Newswire.  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