In consumer communications, connectivity is everything. If products are late to market, too slow or cost too much, they won't sell. A CORBA ORB adds tremendous value to a consumer communications product. It enables heterogeneous communication with the rest of the world, including the Internet. CORBA speeds time to market by freeing developers from building communications framework infrastructures.

If the CORBA ORB isn't fast and small, the benefits fade. Having to add more memory or a faster processor adds to the unit cost of the product. ORBexpress has been designed from the ground up, and is the smallest and fastest ORB on the market today. This provides developers with the flexibility to design an application with memory or processor constraints.

ORBexpress supports plug-in transports in addition to TCP/IP over Ethernet. Consumer communication applications using media such as IEEE 1394 (Firewire) can benefit from CORBA and ORBexpress's speed and deterministic features. Additional protocols, such as IP Multicast and wireless media, can also be used for CORBA communication.

Consumer Electronic Applications

• Consumer Communications
  
• Internet Appliances
  
• Digital Imaging
  
• Digital Entertainment

That's why CORBA is being used in a variety of consumer communication products. Cell phone manufacturers are using CORBA throughout their infrastructure. Even smart appliances are embedding CORBA into their applications. ORBexpress is being used by two of the top providers of consumer set-top boxes for the communications infrastructure.