Business Description

Centillium Communications, Inc. is combining technical innovation and customer commitment to make broadband communications a market reality. Centillium consistently delivers value to its customers by providing broadband networking systems for applications across all market segments. The company designs and markets communications chipset solutions for central office equipment, digital loop carrier (DLC) line cards, and customer premise equipment for Digital Subscriber Line (DSL), Voice over Packet (VoP) and Premise Networking.

Centillium Communications' business strategy is built upon three cornerstones:

• Providing broadband networking for all market segments
  
• Inventing new technologies and driving them through standards adoption
  
• Consistently delivering systems with the highest level of value
  

By delivering on these objectives, Centillium strengthens an already dominant position in the worldwide broadband communications market. Expertise in communication protocols, design of programmable Digital Signal Processors (DSPs), algorithms, analog and mixed-signal electronics, and system expertise has enabled Centillium to deliver market-leading solutions.

In fact, of the 327 employees at Centillium at the end of first quarter 2001, most have advanced degrees and nearly 10% are PhDs. Many of Centillium's experts have backgrounds working in network system design firms (large and small) in addition to semiconductor companies, and others have worked at service providers. The management team has more than 100 years of combined experience in the communications semiconductor or high-tech industries, completing the combination of just the right experience to push innovation into motion.

Equipment companies are using Centillium's Entropia™ VoP chip for development of next generation digital loop carriers and collapsed central office equipment. These pieces of equipment are intended to enhance currently existing networks by providing packet voice service capability to customers already served by digital loop carriers. The equipment will also provide voice services to customers of competitive local exchange carriers that have limited space and want the most flexibility for the investment made in network equipment. Large incumbent carriers can benefit by integrating existing networks with newer, more efficient packet-based networks that cost-effectively transport voice services.

Management Team