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Broadcom Introduces DOCSIS® EoC for EPON Product Portfolio in Support of China's Network Convergence

Provides up to 400 Mbps Support that Enables Cost-Effective, Triple-Play Services to Multi-Dwelling Units in China

BEIJING, Oct. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- ICTC 2010 -- Broadcom Corporation (Nasdaq: BRCM), a global leader in semiconductors for wired and wireless communications, today introduced a customized, highly integrated and cost-efficient DOCSIS® Ethernet over Coax (EoC) for Ethernet Passive Optical Network (EPON) solution in support of China's Next Generation Broadcast (NGB) initiative that will help to drive the convergence of telecommunications, Internet and cable television networks in China.

With a portfolio of market leading and high performance DOCSIS 2.0 and 3.0 cable modem, coax media converter (CMC), EPON and set-top box (STB) technologies, Broadcom is playing a key role in enabling the convergence of voice, video and data services in China and will be demonstrating these industry-leading solutions at this week's International Coverage and Transmission (ICTC) Conference in Beijing, booth #203.

Highlights/ Key Facts: 

    --  China's State Council has designated accelerated triple network
        convergence as an important policy in 2010, and local scholars estimate
        that triple network convergence will induce investment and consumption
        of 700 billion yuan (about $103 billion), according to Digitimes
        Research.
    --  To help advance China's network convergence, DOCSIS provides a
        standardized technology for triple play services over cable networks
        with interoperability and powerful quality of service (QoS) methods that
        ensure a high-quality TV, broadband and telephone experience.
        --  Before the introduction of Broadcom's DOCSIS EOC for EPON solution,
            DOCSIS was considered too expensive to deploy in China's
            multi-dwelling units (MDUs).
        --  However, leveraging already deployed and successful EPON technology
            in China, Broadcom has developed a highly integrated DOCSIS EoC for
            EPON solution that will allow Chinese cable operators to take
            advantage of the benefits of DOCSIS while providing an economical
            architecture for implementing triple play services to MDUs
            throughout the country.
    --  The Broadcom® DOCSIS EoC for EPON solution is a family of products that
        includes CMC, DOCSIS 2.0 and 3.0 cable modem and STB system-on-a-chip
        (SoC) solutions.
        --  The solution's CMC transitions DOCSIS customer premises equipment
            (CPE) from the MDU coaxial network to the EPON fiber network.
        --  The solution features Broadcom's TurboQAM® technology that supports
            downstream speeds up to 400 Mbps, which is a 25 percent improvement,
            and upstream speeds up to 160 Mbps, which is a 33 percent
            improvement over downstream and upstream speeds in support of the
            DOCSIS 3.0 standard.
        --  The solution also provides advanced ingress and impulse noise
            mitigation technologies for S-CDMA (synchronous code division
            multiple access) transmission mode.  Broadcom's S-CDMA Ingress Noise
            Cancellation or SINC technology allows operators to maximize use of
            the reverse path bandwidth for DOCSIS EoC applications for
            delivering fast, reliable and interactive services.
    --  By leveraging EPON standards and customizing DOCSIS as a cable access
        solution, Broadcom's complete EoC for EPON chipset and software
        solutions specifically meets the low cost infrastructure requirements
        for deploying triple play services to MDUs in China.

Supporting Quotes:

Liu Lei, Deputy Chief Engineer, Gehua

"Achieving network convergence will greatly enhance the TV and broadband experience in China.  By leveraging already established standards like DOCSIS and EPON and adding highly integrated and high performance technology, we look forward to the ability to cost efficiently upgrade our network infrastructure and offer high quality triple play services to our subscribers."

Cao Liqi, Deputy Chief Engineer, Topway

"As a leading provider of high definition and interactive television services in China, we want to offer triple play services as soon as possible and make our subscribers benefit from it. We recognize the importance of standardized and high quality technologies like Broadcom is offering here, and I believe it will provide the very best entertainment and information experience in the home for our subscribers."

Dan Marotta, Executive Vice President & General Manager, Broadcom's Broadband Communications Group

"Broadcom combines our market leading and proven ability to design standards-based, highly integrated and cost-effective cable and EPON technology to meet the government and service provider requirements in China, accelerating the country's realization for network convergence."

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About Broadcom

Broadcom Corporation is a major technology innovator and global leader in semiconductors for wired and wireless communications.  Broadcom products enable the delivery of voice, video, data and multimedia to and throughout the home, the office and the mobile environment.  We provide the industry's broadest portfolio of state-of-the-art system-on-a-chip and software solutions to manufacturers of computing and networking equipment, digital entertainment and broadband access products, and mobile devices.  These solutions support our core mission: Connecting everything®.

Broadcom, one of the world's largest fabless communications semiconductor companies, with 2009 revenue of $4.49 billion, holds more than 4,500 U.S. and 1,900 foreign patents, and has more than 7,800 additional pending patent applications, and one of the broadest intellectual property portfolios addressing both wired and wireless transmission of voice, video, data and multimedia.

A FORTUNE 500® company, Broadcom is headquartered in Irvine, Calif., and has offices and research facilities in North America, Asia and Europe.  Broadcom may be contacted at +1.949.926.5000 or at http://www.broadcom.com.

Cautions regarding Forward Looking Statements:

All statements included or incorporated by reference in this release, other than statements or characterizations of historical fact, are forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are based on our current expectations, estimates and projections about our industry and business, management's beliefs, and certain assumptions made by us, all of which are subject to change.  Forward-looking statements can often be identified by words such as "anticipates," "expects," "intends," "plans," "predicts," "believes," "seeks," "estimates," "may," "will," "should," "would," "could," "potential," "continue," "ongoing," similar expressions, and variations or negatives of these words  Examples of such forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, references to China's Next Generation Broadcast driving the convergence of telecommunications, Internet and cable television networks in China. These forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future results and are subject to risks, uncertainties and assumptions that could cause our actual results to differ materially and adversely from those expressed in any forward-looking statement.

Important factors that may cause such a difference for Broadcom in connection with DOCSIS EoC for EPON solutions for China include, but are not limited to:

    --  our ability to timely and accurately predict market requirements and
        evolving industry standards and to identify opportunities in new
        markets;
    --  competitive pressures and other factors such as the qualification,
        availability and pricing of competing products and technologies and the
        resulting effects on sales and pricing of our products; and
    --  the gain or loss of a key customer, design win or order.

Additional factors that may cause Broadcom's actual results to differ materially from those expressed in forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to the list that can be found at http://www.broadcom.com/press/additional_risk_factors/Q42010.php.

Our Annual Report on Form 10-K, subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, recent Current Reports on Form 8-K, and other Securities and Exchange Commission filings discuss the foregoing risks as well as other important risk factors that could contribute to such differences or otherwise affect our business, results of operations and financial condition.  The forward-looking statements in this release speak only as of this date. We undertake no obligation to revise or update publicly any forward-looking statement, except as required by law.

Broadcom®, the pulse logo, Connecting everything®, the Connecting everything logo, TurboQAM® and SINC(TM) are among the trademarks of Broadcom Corporation and/or its affiliates in the United States, certain other countries and/or the EU.  Any other trademarks or trade names mentioned are the property of their respective owners.

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    Senior Public Relations Representative    Director, Investor Relations
    949-926-6367                              949-926-7567
    danabrz@broadcom.com                      czegarel@broadcom.com

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CONTACT: Trade Press, Dana Brzozkiewicz, Senior Public Relations Representative, +1-949-926-6367, danabrz@broadcom.com, or Investor Relations, Chris Zegarelli, Director, Investor Relations, +1-949-926-7567, czegarel@broadcom.com, both of Broadcom Corporation

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