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Here Captain is the announcement and from DR.TECH the CPE modems are already available and with benchmarks better than Alcatel CPE:
PRESS RELEASE : January 20, 1999
Alcatel and Westell Sign an Agreement for ADSL Product Development
AURORA, ILLINOIS and RICHARDSON, TEXAS... (January
20, 1999) ...Alcatel Microelectronics (NYSE: ALA) and Westell
Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: WSTL) announced today that
they have signed an agreement under which Alcatel will supply
their DynaMiTe™ Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL)
Discrete Multi-tone (DMT) chipset and firmware for use in a new
line of Westell's digital subscriber line (DSL) rate adaptive
customer premise equipment. Westell's DSL digital modems
are currently being deployed in homes and offices around the
world, allowing consumers to access the Internet at very high
speeds.
ADSL digital modems are connected to the consumers'
personal computer(s) and their existing copper telephone line, to
allow simultaneous voice, fax and data always-on connectivity
(no dial up) to the Internet in both home and business
environments. Westell expects to integrate the Alcatel chip into
its DSL equipment and ship the new line of fully interoperable
modems, in the summer of 1999.
Brian Henrichs, Westell's Vice President of Broadband
Systems, stated, "Westell is pleased to form a partnership with
Alcatel to integrate the two-chip DynaMiTe chipset into our DMT
modems. As a result, we will soon be able to make available to
our customers another platform of Central Office-interoperable
customer premise equipment that integrates the power of PPP
functionality with the performance and integration of the Alcatel
DMT."
Westell's Alcatel-enabled customer premise equipment will be
offered to Local Exchange Carriers and Internet Service
Providers as complete, easy-to-install home or business digital
modem systems, with software downloadable protocol support
and full ATM UNI capabilities. "The DynaMiTe MTK-20140 is the
most integrated, powerful and established ADSL technology on
the market," commented Robert Bury, xDSL Product Manager
at Alcatel Microelectronics. The agreement involves Alcatel's
issue 2 ANSI standards-compliant, fourth generation, two-chip
ADSL chipset MTK-20140. The DynaMiTe chipset includes the
analog front-end (AFE) chip (MTC-20144) and a digital chip
(MTC-20146) integrating all the DMT and ATM functions and the
embedded controller.
This totally self-contained ADSL solution is fully ANSI Issue 2
compliant and features direct ATM support (UTOPIA interface),
full software configuration and control, robust broadband
connectivity and software extensions to G.Lite and G.DMT,
including ISDN support.
The new DynaMiTe modem kit combines the digital functions of
the DMT modem and ATM functionality into a single digital chip.
A second chip incorporates the analog front end. The two-chip
MTK-20140 is totally compatible with its three-chip predecessor,
the MTK-20131, providing for interoperability, yet reduces board
area and power consumption. Alcatel and Westell are
recognized leaders in ADSL interoperability through their active
contribution to standards and specific interoperability programs
with other vendors.
All thet best,
Michael |
