ALCATEL WIRELESS ADSL ROUTER WINS INNOVATIONS 2001
DESIGN AND ENGINEERING AWARD
Consumer Electronics Association honors Alcatel's innovative wireless DSL
Paris, January 26, 2001 - Alcatel (Paris: CGEP.PA and NYSE: ALA), the world leader in
Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) announced that its Speed TouchTM Wireless asymmetric DSL
(ADSL) router was awarded the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) Innovations 2001
Design and Engineering Honor.
Alcatel received this honor for its wireless innovation that removes the need for expensive
wiring for home and office local area networks (LANs). This award, in the Home Data
Networking category and endorsed by the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA),
is considered one of CEA's highest marks of distinction.
Marc Hermans, president of Alcatel's Customer Premises Division, said, "We designed
Alcatel's Speed Touch Wireless ADSL router in response to market demand for high-speed,
Internet-ready wireless networking. Winning this award is a significant achievement for
Alcatel as it clearly showcases our strong global reputation in the development of superior
DSL products."
Note to editors :
About the Innovations awards
The Innovations Awards competition focuses on product excellence in design and
engineering. A panel of prominent industry experts evaluates all entries, which fall into
different categories, to select the most innovative products based on weighted criteria:
value to user, aesthetics, contributions to quality of life and innovative qualities. Honoree
companies gain industry-wide recognition, permission to include the highly coveted
Innovations logo on all of their product's advertising and packaging, and many other
benefits.
The Alcatel Speed Touch Wireless ADSL (Asymmetric DSL) router: makes simple,
plug-and-play wireless networking and integrated DSL access available to everyone with a
DSL connection. Businesses and consumers alike can effortlessly interconnect multiple
computers anywhere within a home or office to enable shared services and devices -
without having to install expensive and unsightly wiring. The router does the interconnecting
by routing data packages to their destination and only copying to the network that holds the
computer indicated by the package destination address.
About Alcatel
Alcatel builds next generation networks, delivering integrated end-to-end voice and data
networking solutions to established and new carriers, as well as enterprises and
consumers worldwide. With 116,000 employees and sales of EURO 23 billion
(approximately $24 billion US) in 1999, Alcatel operates in more than 130 countries.
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