Lucent Technologies and 3Com Corporation Design
Specification for ADSL Interoperability
09:25 a.m. Jun 09, 1998 Eastern
MURRAY HILL, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 9, 1998--Lucent Technologies
and 3Com Corporation, Santa Clara, Calif., (NASDAQ:COMS) today announced a
jointly-designed technical specification for interoperable Asymmetrical Digital
Subscriber Line (ADSL) products and services based on the International
Telecommunication Union's emerging Discrete Multitone (DMT) standard.
The companies also announced an interoperability demonstration at SuperComm '98
in Atlanta from June 9 through June 11. The demonstration--to be held in the
Lucent booth, number 6639--will feature 3Com's new OfficeConnect(R) Remote
811 ADSL Router as well as Lucent's AnyMedia FAST(tm) ADSL Application
Pack integrated into Lucent's 5ESS(R)-2000 AnyMedia Switch.
The technical specification is posted on Lucent's Internet site at
lucent.com and at 3Com's Internet site at
3com.com. Lucent and
3Com encourage other ADSL and related equipment vendors to review the
technical specification and prepare comments for the companies' joint presentation
to the ADSL Forum on June 16 in Montreal.
The companies are working together to ensure their current and future ADSL
products and services work together based on the ANSI T1.413 Issue 2
specification for ADSL and, later this year, on the ITU G.dmt full-rate ADSL
standard. Lucent and 3Com expect to incorporate sub-rate ADSL solutions. Both
companies support the efforts of the Universal ADSL Working Group (UAWG)
and expect to implement the ITU G.lite standard into their respective ADSL
products and services. Ultimately, the companies anticipate that the jointly-designed
specification will lead the ADSL industry to interoperability.
"Our customers have clearly said that interoperability is crucial to the deployment of
ADSL products and services to the mass market," said Linda Manchester, director
of ADSL business management and strategy for Lucent. "Our goal is to lead the
industry to interoperability, and to quickly get ADSL products to market."
Al Brisard, director of business development for 3Com's xDSL group, said, "The
interoperability work between 3Com and Lucent will move the market closer to
completely ensuring end-to-end equipment compatibility. "We're working closely
with Lucent and other players to ensure that interoperability is eliminated as a
concern to our mutual customers."
3Com offers a portfolio of consumer and business ADSL CPE products based on
a common platform founded on a highly flexible and fully programmable Digital
Signal Processor (DSP). This architecture allows 3Com's CPE to be readily
modified and software upgraded for compliance with emerging standards. 3Com's
approach ensures that customer investment in CPE products is safely retained by
providing a migration path to determined industry standards for full-rate and
sub-rate ADSL.
3Com's commitment to this architectural approach is evident in the new
OfficeConnect Remote 811 ADSL Router and single-user ADSL modems recently
announced. These products support full-rate ADSL and will fully support the G.lite
standard. Today's announcement further demonstrates Lucent's and 3Com's
commitment to achieving interoperability with other major players in the ADSL
market.
Lucent's interoperability efforts will cut across the company's entire ADSL product
portfolio, including previously announced partnerships and product development
plans. The company's portfolio will offer service providers ADSL products based
on a common architecture for cost-effective, integrated and overlay solutions for
communications service providers' central offices, 5ESS(R)-2000 AnyMedia
Switches, SLC(R)-2000 digital loop carriers, SLC(R)-Series 5 digital loop carriers
and remote offices.
Lucent offers service providers flexible platforms that can be deployed within
existing infrastructures to deliver full-rate and G.lite ADSL services to mass-market
and high-end users on an incremental, on-demand basis without incurring huge
equipment upgrade costs.
Lucent Technologies, headquartered in Murray Hill, N.J., designs, builds and
delivers a wide range of public and private networks, communications systems and
software, business telephone systems and microelectronic components. Bell Labs is
the research and development arm for the company. For more information about
Lucent Technologies, visit our web site at lucent.com.
3Com enables individuals and organizations worldwide to communicate and share
information and resources at any time from anywhere. As one of the world's
prominent suppliers of data, voice and video communications technology, 3Com has
delivered networking solutions to more than 100 million customers worldwide. The
company provides large enterprises, small and medium enterprises, carriers and
network service providers, and consumers comprehensive, innovative information
access products and system solutions for building intelligent, reliable and high
performance local and wide area networks. For further information, visit 3Com's
World Wide Web site site at 3com.com or the press site at
3com.com.
3Com and OfficeConnect are registered trademarks of 3Com Corporation. All
other company and product names may be trademarks of the respective companies
with which they are associated.
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