Aware Sees New G.Lite Product Announcements as Strong Endorsement of ITU Standard
BEDFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 27, 2000--Aware, Inc. (NASDAQ: AWRE), a worldwide leader in DSL (digital subscriber line) technology for high-speed Internet access over existing telephone networks and a pioneer of G.Lite, today announced that recent G.Lite product announcements by industry suppliers are a strong endorsement of the International Telecommunication Union's G.992.2 standard. Aware's G.Lite technology package, available since 1998, meets all the features of G.992.2 including fast-retrain and recently publicized 4Mbps-plus data rates.
The G.Lite standard was targeted at enabling high-speed Internet access service over existing telephone lines. A data rate of 1.5 Mbps was identified as a target operating goal in order to service the demands of the Internet access marketplace as well as accommodate the wide variation of loop lengths and conditions in the telephone network. The fundamental design of the G.Lite standard supports data rates in excess of 5Mbps under ideal loop conditions and greater than 1.5Mbps under better than average conditions. Aware's technology package supports the entire feature set of the G.Lite standard including greater than 5 Mbps downstream data rates, Fast Retrain and Power-down modes.
Aware is an intellectual property supplier that makes its technology available in the form of digital signal processing (DSP) software, application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) designs or cores, system architecture software, and reference designs. Aware's technology offerings can be applied to any silicon architecture, including DSP-centric, ASIC-centric, and host-processor-centric or "soft" solutions.
Michael Tzannes, Aware's president and chief executive officer, said: "New product announcements for G.Lite further increase the momentum developing in the DSL market and clearly demonstrate the flexibility and strength of the G.Lite standard. A number of our customers already support greater than 1.5Mbps speeds, and we applaud the endorsement of the latent higher speed capabilities of this powerful standard." |
