ADI/Aware announce licensing agreement with Amati (Part II)
I wonder if this also works in reverse; will Amati have trouble interoperating with ADI/Aware modems and in particular with DWMT??
ADI & AWARE Press release
Monday September 15 3:31 PM EDT
Company Press Release
Analog Devices To Offer Selected ADSL Protocols Via Software Option
DMT Patents Licensed from Amati Added to ADSL Chipset by Aware Part of
Company's
Drive to Speed Deployment of ADSL Services
NORWOOD, Mass., Sept. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Analog Devices (NYSE:ADI) today
announced certain discrete multitone (DMT) protocols, included in patents
licensed from Amati Communications, will be a software-provided option of its
DMT-based ADSL chipset. Analog Devices' software partner Aware will facilitate
the option. The price for this version will be 1% higher than the current
production-level Analog Devices DMT-ADSL chipset, shipping in volume.
The Aware-produced software option is the latest part of a drive by Analog
Devices, the DMT-ADSL chipset leader, to remove the few remaining barriers to
the rapid deployment of ADSL services. The option does not impact chipset
performance.
Russ Johnsen, Vice President and General Manager of Analog Devices'
Communications Division, said ``certain minor interoperability issues stand in
the way of broad market acceptance and use of DMT-ADSL services. This software
option addresses those here-today matters while allowing telecommunications,
data communications equipment and modem manufacturers to have a chipset design
that can adapt easily to evolving DMT-ADSL standards.''
``The ANSI, ETSI and ITU standards are still evolving and may not require the
Amati patents in the future,'' said Jim Bender, President and CEO of Aware, Inc.
``If it turns out that they are ever necessary, then the ADI-Aware chipset will
have them.'' Aware's financial relationship with Analog Devices is unaffected by
this software option.
ADSL provides high speed data transmission over existing copper phone lines, as
fast as 8 Mbps, or 60 times faster than ISDN and more than 200 times faster than
33.6 voice-channel modems. The Analog Devices/Aware AD20msp910 ADSL
chipset is
rate adaptive, assessing each line's condition and transport capacity to
optimize throughput. The chipset automatically adapts to special line parameters
and noisy environments and offers a low-noise solution when neighborhood wires
are within the same cable trunk.
With its high speed, simple deployment and presentation of ``lifeline'' voice
services, ADSL technology is an effective near-term remedy for the data
communications bottlenecks created by the growing popularity of the Internet.
About Analog Devices
With sales of $1.2 billion for fiscal 1996, Analog Devices is a leading
manufacturer of precision high-performance integrated circuits used in analog
and digital signal processing applications. Analog's Communications Division
focuses on products for wireless and broadband wired communications
applications. Headquartered in Norwood, Massachusetts, the company employs
approximately 7,200 people worldwide and has manufacturing facilities in
Massachusetts, California, North Carolina, Ireland, the Philippines and Taiwan.
About Aware, Inc.
Aware (Nasdaq:AWRE), headquartered in Bedford, Massachusetts, is a world leader
in ``last-mile'' technology for broadband communications and high speed access
to the Internet. The company's products allow users to maximize use of scarce
bandwidth resources for transmitting digitized data. Aware is developing ADSL
technology, software, modules and modems for high-speed, interactive broadband
network applications.
SOURCE Analog Devices |
