Aware, Inc. Announces PMC-Sierra as New Licensee
Tuesday May 30, 5:15 am ET
BEDFORD, Mass., May 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Aware, Inc. (Nasdaq: AWRE - News), a worldwide leader and innovator of broadband intellectual property, today announced a new licensee: PMC-Sierra, Inc. (Nasdaq: PMCS - News), a leading provider of broadband communications and storage semiconductors for metro, access, fiber to the home, and customer premises equipment (CPE). PMC-Sierra is licensing Aware's StratiPHY2+(TM) technology for its newly announced ADSL2+ residential gateway solutions.
"Combining Aware's field-proven StratiPHY2+ technology with PMC's leading-edge products for communications applications offers the market a superior ADSL2+ semiconductor solution," commented Luke Smithwick, Aware's vice president of DSL licensing. "PMC's family of production-ready reference designs for residential gateways exceeds the current market technology requirements for the delivery of advanced services such as quad-play, triple-play, video-over-DSL, and IPTV."
"Aware is regarded as a key source for DSL intellectual property and has achieved broad acceptance through interoperability in the marketplace," commented Dino Bekis, vice president of marketing and applications for PMC-Sierra's Communications Products Division. "We chose to work with Aware's StratiPHY2+ because it contained all the requisite field-proven technology that enabled us to rapidly incorporate ADSL2+ into our new CPE product offerings." |
