Wireless DSL Consortium Membership Expanding
Five vendors have joined the Wireless DSL Consortium in the first two months
MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 2, 2000-- The Wireless DSL Consortium today announced that five communications and semiconductor companies have joined the Consortium since the launch in July of this year. The new members are: Oren Semiconductor, REMEC, RF Solutions, SiCOM and TelesciCOM.
These Adopter members work with the Promoters in technical committees to develop the Consortium's open standard multi-vendor specifications for wireless access. In addition, the Adopters will be able to develop products - systems and components - from the newly defined specifications. The Consortium will develop specifications for products that will be available in 2000 as well as enhanced products to meet the market demand for Non-Line-Of -Sight (NLOS) solutions greatly reducing installation costs and enabling mass-market deployment of Broadband Wireless Access.
``We are very pleased to welcome Oren, REMEC, RF Solutions, SiCOM and TelesciCOM as new members of the Consortium,'' said John O'Connell, chairman of the Wireless DSL Consortium. ``The growing membership of the Wireless DSL Consortium proves that the momentum is building in the industry for access products based on an open standard and available from multiple sources. The Consortium is responding now to the industry demands.''
ABOUT THE WIRELESS DSL CONSORTIUM
Founded in July 2000, the goal of the Consortium is to provide the telecommunications industry with a market-driven multi-vendor solution for broadband wireless access on an accelerated schedule. The founding members of the Consortium are ADC, Conexant Systems, Gigabit Wireless, Intel, Nortel Networks and Vyyo.
The Wireless DSL Consortium focuses on bringing together an industry-wide initiative in a collaborative environment to rapidly build the world's leading Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) solution. The mission of the Wireless DSL Consortium is to provide a forum for the definition, development, implementation and testing of a set of open interfaces for Wireless DSL products. These interfaces will allow the Promoters and Adopters to rapidly launch a suite of attractive products and services that will enable multichannel multipoint distribution service (MMDS) providers to deliver broadband services to the mass market today and transition smoothly to products based on advanced techniques to provide service to the end customers not accessible with the initial solution. The current thrust of the Wireless DSL Consortium is focused on products for MMDS and the 3.5 GHz Wireless Local Loop (WLL) frequency ranges for the U.S. and international markets.
ABOUT THE NEW MEMBER COMPANIES
Oren Semiconductor, Inc. is a leading provider of DSP-based integrated circuits. The company has developed products targeted at solving problems created in wireless transmission. Their first products improve the quality of broadcast video transmissions and are featured in TVs, VCRs, and set-top boxes. OREN has applied this expertise to the broadband wireless market. The company aims to improve the quality of broadband wireless services by using its proprietary algorithms and specialized RF techniques. Visit the Oren Web site at www.oren.com for additional information.
REMEC (NASDAQ ``REMC'') is a supplier of microwave components and assemblies for commercial, military and aerospace applications. Headquartered in San Diego, California REMEC supplies transport layer solutions for broadband wireless access systems. For more information visit the Remec web site at www.remec.com.
RF Solutions is a developer of transceiver products for the broadband wireless access market. Founded in 1997, RF Solutions is part of the Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC) based in Atlanta, Georgia and is a Yamacraw Partner company. More information is available at www.rf-solutions.com
SiCOM is a leading provider of modem semiconductors for broadband wireless communications. SiCOM's modems increase capacity, reduce cost, and improve reliability of next generation broadband networks. SiCOM's family of silicon solutions and circuit card products are embedded in leading broadband satellite and terrestrial microwave wireless network products. Founded in 1985, the company is headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona. For more information visit the SiCOM Web site at www.sicom.com
TelesciCOM, established in 1997, designs and develops chipset solutions for the Broadband Wireless and Satellite Access market. TelesciCOM is uniquely positioned to be a market leader with its system-on-chip SKYGAIN(tm) and SPACEGAIN(tm) chipset solutions, delivering superior price/performance that is changing the entire cost configuration of the industry. TelesciCOM's staff has a wealth of multi-disciplinary experience and expertise in the areas of advanced coding and modulation techniques, Digital Signal Processing, wireless access, high-speed data transmission, RF design and more. TelesciCOM is a privately held corporation headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel. For more information visit the Telescicom web site at www.telescicom.com
THE CONSORTIUM'S FOUNDING MEMBER WEB SITES
ADC www.adc.com
Connexant www.conexant.com
Gigabit Wireless www.gigabitwireless.com
Intel www.intel.com
Nortel Networks www.nortelnetworks.com
Vyyo www.vyyo.com
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