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DS2’s New Chip for Home Audio Networks

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DS2 announced General Availability of its DSS9011, a new chipset for Home Audio Networking whose low cost makes it specially useful for IP-Phones, MP3 Players, Home Theaters and other low cost appliances.

The DSS9011 is the newest chip in DS2’s award winning 200 Mbps power line chipset. Family. The DSS9011 uses the well proven PHY and MAC of the previous members of the family, the DSS9003, DSS9002, DSS9001 and the DSS9010, the only Universal Solution available for Home-Wide Video and Media Network and PLC-Access networks.

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DS2 has shipped more than 800,000 units of its 200 Mbps DSS90XX power line chips. The DSS90XX family also offers “Home-Wide coverage” for ADSL and Cable Modem prolongations for Triple Play Home Networking”. DS2 chips include extremely reliable encryption and advanced features for network operators, and due to their programmable notching capabilities they can be adapted to any regulatory environment in any country of the world. Furthermore, the DS2 chipset complies with ETSI specifications for Co-existence between In-Home and BPL-Access networks.

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The new member of the family is released together with new Reference Designs that achieve small formats, plug and play and low cost. A Wall Plug PLC-to-Ethernet bridge and a module for embedded applications add new elements to the already large family of Reference Designs for Access and In-Home Communications ( www.ds2.es ) and support tools, evaluation equipment.

Speaking at the CES Unveiled event in Las Vegas, Jorge Blasco, President and CEO of DS2 applauded the CES Innovations Awards Jury for acknowledging DS2’s breakthrough and granting DS2 the CES Best of Innovations Award for the 200 Mbps chips. He stated that “our real achievement has not only been in hitting the market more than 2 years earlier than the nearest competitor, but in providing a flexible family of chipsets addressing the different needs of different niches of the market (Video, Audio, In-Home Networks, PLC Access Networks,..), as well as state of the art Reference Designs, Networking Software, Support Tools and the highest quality and motivation Customer Support and Sales teams”. According to Mr Blasco, ” DS2’s partners have been essential to the success of the 200 Mbps power line chips through the rapid development of a large portfolio of products that include products for the PLC-Access sector, together with an expanding portfolio of PLC-products for In-Home communications.

The DSS 90XX chip family and the new DSS9011 chip together with client products are on display at CES (Innovations Plus are, booth IP 584) along with products incorporating these including PLC-to-Ethernet bridges, ADSL-to-PLC bridges, PLC-STBs, PLC-Hard Disks. A myriad of new products will hit the market during the coming weeks/months.

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