Embedded architecture aids IP telephony company: Study
Far South Networks (FSN) is a South African company that specializes in developing next-generation telecommunications platforms for voice, data, and voice over IP (VoIP) networks. The company’s range of innovative products helped it carve out significant market segment share in South Africa, a notable achievement given that multinational incumbents dominated the marketplace. To cut manufacturing costs, gain product design flexibility, and access new territories−such as Europe, the Middle East, and the U.S.−FSN used the Intel® Atom™ processor E6xx Series to develop innovative, industry-leading IP telephony products.
Challenges
• Reduce costs. A key element of existing FSN products, the x86 network appliance motherboard, is a standard product sourced from Taiwan, resulting in high import costs and non-optimal design fit
• Increase design flexibility. Because its server boards were sourced from a third party, the company didn’t have the design flexibility to meet new customer needs
• Expansion constrained. This hampered FSN’s long-term growth strategy to expand from its local South African base into other territories, as well as target the more volu¬minous, smaller market segments such as small office, home office (SOHO)
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Embedded architecture aids IP telephony company: Study
Far South Networks (FSN) is a South African company that specializes in developing next-generation telecommunications platforms for voice, data, and voice over IP (VoIP) networks. The company’s range of innovative products helped it carve out significant market segment share in South Africa, a notable achievement given that multinational incumbents dominated the marketplace. To cut manufacturing costs, gain product design flexibility, and access new territories−such as Europe, the Middle East, and the U.S.−FSN used the Intel® Atom™ processor E6xx Series to develop innovative, industry-leading IP telephony products.
Challenges
• Reduce costs. A key element of existing FSN products, the x86 network appliance motherboard, is a standard product sourced from Taiwan, resulting in high import costs and non-optimal design fit
• Increase design flexibility. Because its server boards were sourced from a third party, the company didn’t have the design flexibility to meet new customer needs
• Expansion constrained. This hampered FSN’s long-term growth strategy to expand from its local South African base into other territories, as well as target the more volu¬minous, smaller market segments such as small office, home office (SOHO)
Read the full Embedded Architecture Aids IP Telephony Company case study.
