DS2 adds native TR-069 remote management support to AITANATM powerline communications chipset solution

December 7, 2007 – DS2, a Spanish provider of powerline chipsets, has announced the availability of an integrated TR-069 solution embedded in its DSS9101 powerline communications System on a Chip (SoC), part of the AITANATM chipset.

The DSS9101 SoC is the latest member of DS2’s family of UPA-compliant 200 Mbps powerline communications products, chosen as the home networking solution by IPTV service providers such as BT, Belgacom, Portugal Telecom, Telefonica, Telecom Italia and Telia Sonera.

“The DSS9101 is the first powerline communications SoC to integrate a full TR-069 stack on-chip, thus eliminating the need for an external processor,” said Chano Gómez, Vice President of Technology and Strategic Partnerships for DS2.  “Other powerline products currently available in the market only provide proprietary and limited configuration mechanisms and lack even a basic TCP/IP stack, so adding any kind of remote management capabilities requires expensive external processors and memories to run the protocol stack, adding complexity and increasing the cost and power consumption of the overall solution.”

By adding native support for TR-069 in DS2’s silicone, service providers can use their existing network management infrastructure to control, configure, troubleshoot or perform a secure firmware upgrade to any device that uses DS2’s AITANATM solution.