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alt Need to cut costs?

Motorola’s groundbreaking softmodem is a unique, powerful–and yet low-cost–communications solution for Internet-accessible devices such as set-top boxes, Internet appliances, e-mail/Web terminals, and much more. With Motorola softmodem technology, you can build Internet appliances with the most robust communications technology available while reducing production costs at the same time. Using a software configurable Data Access Arrangement (DAA) provided by Silicon Laboratories, you can provide worldwide coverage with a single hardware configuration. This simplifies product qualification/ design-in and forecasting.

Benefits of Using a Silicon Laboratories silicon DAA

alt What is a softmodem?

Softmodem is Motorola’s unique software modem, a technology that relies on software to eliminate the need for a dedicated modem processor in embedded applications. The result is a sleek design at a lower cost and with a smaller footprint. Motorola’s softmodem is particularly attractive to the embedded information appliance market. The Motorola softmodem has already passed rigorous qualification testing. In the most important test of all, name-brand PC manufacturers have selected the Motorola softmodem to install in millions of today’s PCs.

alt How does softmodem help me?

The Motorola softmodem is designed to meet the specific needs of the Internet appliance manufacturer. Softmodem communications software gives manufacturers greater flexibility in platform design while offering significant cost savings because it greatly reduces the amount of modem hardware. In a nutshell, the Motorola softmodem is:

Lower cost
Dramatically smaller
Lower power
Easily software upgradeable

And extensive diagnostic support with detailed phone line quality statistics reduce the number of technical support calls and the length of each call.

alt What's in it for the end user?

Softmodem offers three powerful features that every end user wants: lower cost, higher functionality and easy upgradability. Motorola’s softmodem comes feature packed with ITU-T V.92 mode and auto-fallback to K56flex and V.34. Software upgrades are made simple with a user-friendly Upgrade Utility making it easy for end users to keep current with new communications technology.

alt What about the competition?

Softmodem from Motorola gives you a unique industry advantage: It’s a software-designed system available only from Motorola, a world leading producer of embedded processors