1998!: Orckit, Virata team up on ATM over ADSL
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Posted: 3:00 p.m. EST, 4/27/98
By Peter Clarke
CAMBRIDGE, England ? Orckit Communications Ltd. (Tel Aviv, Israel), a pioneer in digital-subscriber-line technology, and Virata Ltd. (Cambridge, England), are working together to develop DSL systems with integrated asynchronous-transfer-mode (ATM) hardware and software.
Orckit will license ATM software from Virata and buy that company's ARM RISC-core-based ATM chips for inclusion in Orckit's FastInternet and CopperTrunk ADSL products for central-office and custome r premises.
While ATM over ADSL has been demonstrated using separate subsystems, Chris Williams, vice president of strategic marketing at Virata, said, "The ADSL Forum has specified that ATM will be the protocol of choice running over ADSL. The only way to do it on one card is using our technology."
The combination of the two companies' technologies should help reduce the cost of DSL modems to less than $200, Williams said. Products including the Virata technology are expected in three to six months.
As Advanced Telecommunications Modules Ltd., Virata had developed a series of ATM local-area-network products. When the ATM-to-the-desktop market did not develop as fast as the company had expected, it decided last year to realign itself as a technology licensing company. It changed its name to Virata and sold off its LAN products to Escalate Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
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