Vitesse Demonstrates Industry’s First Gigabit Ethernet Wireless Broadband Gateway Solution for the SME and SOHO Markets


Integrated Solution Supports Industry Leading Technology Offered by Intoto, Ralink Technology and Star Semiconductor

CAMARILLO, Calif. – June 5, 2006 - Vitesse Semiconductor Corp. (NASDAQ: VTSS), the market leader in Gigabit Ethernet ICs, today announced that it will showcase the industry’s first integrated Gigabit Ethernet wireless broadband gateway solution designed to meet the needs of the small and medium enterprise (SME) and small office/home office (SOHO) markets.  Vitesse will be demonstrating the company’s wireless broadband gateway solution at COMPUTEX Taipei 2006 in One Grand Room, Room No. 1121, which will be held at the Taipei World Trade Center held on June 6-10.

Vitesse’s Gigabit Ethernet wireless broadband gateway solution incorporates industry-leading technologies offered by Intoto, Ralink Technology and Star Semiconductor.  The increase in demand for Gigabit Ethernet and the 802.11n standard has been driven by the high bandwidth requirements of the SME/SOHO markets for higher levels of performance, storage, web-applications with rich presentations and large data movement from databases.  With the emergence of the 802.11n standard, large scale deployments of Gigabit Ethernet will also become more prevalent as Fast Ethernet will not be able to keep up with the increased bandwidth demands of 802.11n networks. 

“Wireless technology has become a critical business tool for today’s SME/SOHO market,” said Martyn Humphries, vice president and general manager of the Ethernet Products Division at Vitesse.  “This solution is the first of its kind, a wireless broadband gateway solution using industry leading Gigabit Ethernet technology from Vitesse.  ODMs and OEMs will be able to take advantage of our wireless turnkey solution utilizing the best of breed products from Vitesse and our leading solution partners.”

 “The adoption of Gigabit Ethernet will continue to grow to keep up with the higher bandwidth demands of SME/SOHO markets and the upcoming 802.11n standard,” said Bob Wheeler, senior analyst at The Linley Group.  “Vitesse’s Gigabit Ethernet wireless broadband gateway solution responds to the higher bandwidth demands of the 802.11n standard, resulting in stronger performance and increased reliability for the growing wireless market.”

Vitesse’s Gigabit Ethernet wireless broadband gateway solution combines Intoto’s iGateway RGS Standard – a complete software platform with network access, wireless LAN security, and firewall; and Ralink Technology’s wireless LAN chipset, the RT2600 which supports all standard-based features and requirements such as security, quality of service and international regulatory, thus providing end-users with higher performance than legacy devices.  Star Semiconductor will also be providing its CPU for the demo.  Star’s Orion family of ARM9 based processors consists of a Gigabit interface to enable 1000Mbps performance in home application.  The Orion 9100/9200 family provides networking vendors a single chip solution with integrated Gigabit Ethernet MAC, USB 2.0 host controller, PCI 33/66Mhz Host, 32bit DDR memory controller and internal high performance hardware acceleration for NAT and Layer 7 content inspection.

About the Gigabit Ethernet Products Division
Vitesse is the pre-eminent supplier to OEMs designing tomorrow’s new wave of broadband products.  With the industry’s most far-reaching offering of tightly integrated, ultra-low power Gigabit Ethernet devices, and a staunch commitment to Gigabit Ethernet, the company continues to set the pace of innovation across market sectors.

About Vitesse
Vitesse designs, develops and markets a diverse portfolio of high-performance, cost-competitive semiconductor solutions for communications and storage networks worldwide.  Engineering excellence and dedicated customer service distinguish Vitesse as an industry leader in Gigabit Ethernet LAN, Ethernet-over-SONET, Advanced Switching, Fiber Channel, Serial Attached SCSI, Optical Transport, and other applications.  Vitesse innovation empowers customers to deliver superior products for Enterprise, Access, Metro, and Core applications.  Additional company and product information is available at www.vitesse.com.

Here’s What the Technology Leaders are Saying about the Industry’s First Integrated Gigabit Ethernet Wireless Broadband Gateway Solution

Intoto, Inc.
“The SME and SOHO markets demand reliable wireless solutions,” said Doug Makishima, vice president of marketing at Intoto.  “With Vitesse’s Gigabit Ethernet technology, coupled with Intoto’s feature-rich iGateway RGS software platform, we are delivering a secure and dependable wireless broadband gateway solution.”

Ralink Technology
According to Rick Jeng executive vice president of x  at Ralink Technology, “Leveraging Ralink’s wireless LAN chipset with Vitesse’s leadership in the Gigabit Ethernet space, Vitesse is offering a robust wireless broadband gateway solution which will be fundamental to meet the higher bandwidth demands driven by the adoption of the 802.11n standard.”

Star Semiconductor
“Vitesse’s highly optimized SparX family will benefit our OEM/ODM partners with a world-class solution that significantly reduces power consumption and overall system costs,” said Gene Liu, CTO at Star Semiconductor.  “This combination will offer a high-performance total solution to networking vendors building a secure next-generation networking equipment, such as unified threat management (UTM) appliances, security appliances, security routers, secure WLAN AP and switches, and VoIP IADs.”