Interesting tidbit on the newswire this morning — PMC Sierra has announced a series of VoIP multi-service chipsets. The highest powered device in that announcement was the MSP5000, described as a "MIPS-Powered multi-service processor, 1-16 voice channels, 2 DSP cores, VPN security engine, 2×10/100 Ethernet MAC". The stated use was for a small enterprise IAD with IP PBX.
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Which begs the question — since PMC’s customer base includes Cisco, Lucent, Nortel, Alcatel, Ericsson and NEC, how long will we have to wait for a micro-PBX to hit the market from one of these vendors?
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