Broadcom Corporation (Nasdaq: BRCM), a leading provider of highly integrated semiconductor solutions enabling broadband communications, today announced that CableLabs has chosen the Broadcom? BroadVoice16? voice compression codec as one of two royalty-free voice codecs for all future PacketCable? 1.1 and 1.0 certified and qualified embedded multimedia terminal adapters (EMTAs) and public switch telephone network (PSTN) media gateways beginning in April of 2005, pending successful conclusion of certain conditions such as demonstration of multi-vendor interoperability. A mandatory voice compression codec in PacketCable products provides cable operators with universal toll-quality voice compression for Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) telephony services over cable.