Mindspeed Technologies Inc. (MSPD) Wrap Up:

Mindspeed Technologies, Inc. engages in the design, development, and sale of semiconductor networking solutions for communications applications in enterprise, access, metropolitan, and wide-area networks (WANs). It provides analog transmission devices, which include laser drivers, transimpedance amplifiers, post amplifiers, clock and data recovery circuits, serializers/deserializers, video reclockers, cable drivers, and line equalizers; and switching products, such as crosspoint switches. These products support storage area networking, fiber-to-the-premise, and broadcast video, as well as mainstream synchronous optical networking (SONET)/synchronous digital hierarchy (SDH) and packet-over-SONET applications. The company also offers software-configurable multiservice access digital signal processor products, which serve as bridges for transporting voice, fax, and modem transmissions between circuit-switched networks and packet-based networks. These products also offer voice over Internet protocol, voice-over-asynchronous transfer mode (ATM), voice-over-digital subscriber line services, and wireline-to-wireless connectivity. Its WAN communications products include transmission solutions and ATM/multi-protocol label switching network processors that facilitate the aggregation, processing, and transport of voice and data traffic over copper wire or fiber optic cable to access metropolitan and long-haul networks. It also provides Ethernet media access controllers and oversubscription aggregators. Mindspeed Technologies sells its products directly to network infrastructure original equipment manufacturers; and indirectly through electronic component distributors and third-party electronic manufacturing service providers in the Americas, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific region. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Newport Beach, California.