Marvell

Marvell's field proven SPIRIT Home Networking firmware provides the maximum performance and advanced functionalities necessary for a high-speed residential wireline network. Based on the UPA Digital Home Standard that assures compatibility between all current and future UPA equipment, SPIRIT includes support for Marvell’s advanced Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) MAC, optimized to handle the high QoS demands of HD IPTV video streaming. Simple consumer self-installation is supported along with all of the features required for advanced operator-based services, including TR-069 CPE Remote Management.

SPIRIT firmware includes the following advantages:

• In-home plug-and-play installation
• Complete TCP/IP stack for advanced networking features (ICMP, DHCP, FTP, TFTP, NTP, DNS)
• Service classifier with 8 priorities
• Automatic smart repeating for no dead zones in a large installation
• End to end bit encryption for secure communications and content protection
• Full on-chip TR-069 remote configuration and management stack
• Native TR-111 for identification of CPE behind the NAT Gateway
• Link layer topology discovery (Windows LLTD technology)
• Embedded Web server
• Multi-Platform configuration Tool
• Push-button security set-up (OBUS)
• Multicast optimization with IGMP snooping
• Link Activity-based power saving

SPIRIT's modular and powerful API makes it easy to extend the basic functionality of Marvell's UPA and G.hn devices, providing the ability to fine-tune a design to meet the needs of a particular application. Examples include the ability to provide signaling in an adaptive rate MPEG encoding system or providing a customized webpage for parameter configuration. SPIRIT contains a complete, optimized POSIX-compliant TCP/IP stack, providing designers the option of using a wide range of readily available source code, thereby reducing development time and effort.