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Aware, Inc. Announces Technology to Supply Second-Line Residential Voice Over ADSL
BEDFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 2, 2000--
With Aware's VeDSL Technology, Service Providers Can Utilize ADSL to
Supply Toll-Quality Second-Line Voice to Residences
Aware, Inc. (NASDAQ:AWRE), a worldwide leader in DSL (digital
subscriber line) technology for high-speed Internet access over
existing telephone lines, today announced its Voice-enabled DSL
(VeDSL) technology specifically designed to supply residences with
toll-quality second-line voice.
VeDSL Technology
Aware's Voice-enabled DSL (VeDSL) will allow service providers to
offer toll-quality second-line voice service to residential consumers.
VeDSL is unique among proposed voice-over-DSL solutions in that it
transports voice traffic within the ADSL protocol, significantly
reducing latency and packetization overhead, thereby ensuring
reliability and true toll quality. In addition, VeDSL dynamically
allocates bandwidth to support voice calls while maintaining both
lifeline plain old telephone service (POTS) and standard-compliant
full-rate or G.lite ADSL data access.
Aware's VeDSL technology expands the services that ADSL can
provide. With VeDSL, an additional toll-quality voice call can be
placed over a customer's single phone line while POTS and high-speed
Internet access services are in use. As calls are placed or received,
up to 64 kbps of the ADSL data traffic is allocated to support the
voice call. When the call is complete, the data can be reallocated to
the ADSL data stream.
Michael Tzannes, president and chief executive officer of Aware,
said: "ADSL is a revolutionary access technology that enables phone
lines to be transformed into multi-service access pipes. In addition
to Internet access, voice service is among the most promising
applications of ADSL and we've seen strong demand for a cost-effective
and scalable solution for residential second line services. VeDSL will
allow service providers to bundle a full array of voice, data and
Internet services over a single copper pair."
Tzannes added: "By keeping voice within the ADSL protocol, we
offer a cost-effective, low-latency, toll-quality solution. VeDSL in
the access network complements Voice-over-DSL (VoDSL) using emerging
voice packetization techniques such as Voice-over-ATM (VoATM) and
Voice-over-IP (VoIP)."
ADSL Background
ADSL is an industry-standard technology that enables regular
telephone lines to simultaneously supply multi-megabit high-speed data
and regular voice transmissions. Using ADSL, telephone companies
around the world are offering high-speed Internet access over the same
telephone lines supplying POTS. In addition, competitive local
exchange carriers (CLECs) and Internet service providers (ISPs) are
using ADSL to supply high speed data service on telephone lines leased
from telephone companies. By using ADSL, a home's single telephone
line is transformed into a multi-service access pipe offering both
POTS and true high speed Internet access. |
