Microsemi Reaches Major Milestone By Shipping Over 1 Billion Voice Line Circuits

Reinforces Market Leadership in Voice for Broadband Gateways and Multi-Channel Access Applications

Aliso Viejo, CA /PRNewswire/ - Microsemi Corporation (Nasdaq: MSCC), a leading provider of semiconductor solutions differentiated by power, security, reliability and performance today announced it has reached a major milestone by shipping over 1 billion voice line circuits. This achievement comes after more than three decades of worldwide industry leadership in providing reliable and cost competitive voice solutions. With over 65 percent market share in voice line circuit solutions for VoIP enabled broadband gateways, Microsemi continues to develop easy-to-use and highly cost-effective voice line solutions with a wide array of products such as the next generation miSLIC™ Series, the ZL880, and VE950 product families.

Microsemi's latest line circuit devices are optimized for short loop, power sensitive applications and provide the highest level of integration available today. Target applications include cable embedded multimedia terminal adaptors (eMTAs), DSL integrated access devices (IADs), fiber to the premise (FTTx) applications, LTE gateways and analog terminal adaptors (ATAs).

According to Infonetics Research, broadband providers continue to increase the number of services offered (including voice) which will continue to drive the CPE market at volumes around 200 million units per year for the next five to seven years.

Additionally, Microsemi offers systems designers an extensive application toolset, including software development tools, reference designs and development platforms, to speed time-to-market when adding voice to residential gateway applications.

"We are proud to reach this industry milestone and continue our leadership in voice line circuits with over 65 percent market share," said Jacques Issa, vice president and voice business unit manager, Microsemi. "With our proprietary SLIC process and manufacturing capacity, Microsemi remains the trusted partner who delivers in high volume a reliable and cost effective solution."

About Microsemi Line Circuits

• miSLIC Series The miSLIC Series provides the most economical solution for adding two channels of voice to broadband applications, such as residential gateways, IAD, eMTAs and FTTX applications. The miSLIC Series supports ringing and system power management, enabling energy efficient control of two telephone lines and meeting the European Code of Conduct specifications. The miSLIC device together with the new patent pending shared buck boost automatic battery switching (BBABS) power supply design are Microsemi's most economical RBOM for two channels of voice.
• ZL880 Series The ZL880 Series features low power, dual-channel wideband foreign exchange service (FXS) voice solutions for broadband residential gateways, eMTAs and FTTX applications.
• VE890 Series The VE890 Series targets low-cost residential gateways, especially DSL IADs and some ATAs that often require a single FXS line and/or an FXO interface. The VE890 Series of chipsets enable all popular voice interface options in DSL IADs including 1 FXS, 1 FXO, 2 FXS, 2 FXO, 1 FXS + 1 FXO and 2 FXS + 1 FXO. The Series offers full worldwide programmability, requires very few external components and meets the European Code of Conduct power requirements.
• VE950 Series The VE950 Series offers high-performance, voice-over-broadband SLIC devices with universal differential ringing and codec interfaces optimized for short loop, power-sensitive applications. The VE950 products are designed to interface to residential gateway SoCs with integrated analog codecs.

For additional product information, visit http://www.microsemi.com/products/voice-line-circuits. Customers can also contact Microsemi's sales team at sales.support@microsemi.com.

About Microsemi
Microsemi Corporation (Nasdaq: MSCC) offers a comprehensive portfolio of semiconductor and system solutions for communications, defense & security, aerospace and industrial markets. Products include high-performance and radiation-hardened analog mixed-signal integrated circuits, FPGAs, SoCs and ASICs; power management products; timing and synchronization devices and precise time solutions, setting the world's standard for time; voice processing devices; RF solutions; discrete components; security technologies and scalable anti-tamper products; Power-over-Ethernet ICs and midspans; as well as custom design capabilities and services. Microsemi is headquartered in Aliso Viejo, Calif., and has approximately 3,400 employees globally. Learn more at www.microsemi.com.

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