TECHNOLOGY HIGHLIGHT
Today's home includes many multimedia systems that need to be easily linked together for consumers to maximize their enjoyment of audio and visual content.
Storm Semiconductor, Inc. delivers semiconductor solutions for distributing digital multimedia content. The Storm vision is a seamless, meshed network that delivers multiple digital multimedia data streams to devices in a heterogeneous network of PCs, HDTVs, set-top boxes, game consoles, digital video recorders, cameras, standard and VoIP phones, printers, storage systems, and other business and consumer audio/video equipment.
Powering the network are embedded Storm Semiconductor chips that deliver and manage high-density multimedia data streams in equipment such as wireless gateways, wireless access points, residential gateways, fiber to the home ONUs, media servers, broadband routers, NAS storage solutions, networked audio/video appliances, video conferencing and phone systems, IP cameras and gaming equipment.
Foundation technologies that enable Storm Semiconductor to deliver a new class of multimedia distribution devices are core Ethernet protocol technology, mesh networking protocols, dual processor SoC designs, advanced quality of service and content-aware provisioning technologies, security and L4 to L7 NetEngine™ processing capabilities and 1 to 10 gigibit/second Ethernet connectivity. With these fundamental technologies Storm Semiconductor can develop and deliver a range of high performance, low-cost, highly optimized solutions for the delivery of multimedia content.