John H. -
<<<I was seriously debating leaving this and probably all other Amati threads because of all the "boring static".
Thanks for reminding us all why we are here.>>>
It's easy to see your point. I left because it got to the point where you could not find the real stuff, with conversations going on about everything but Amati.
I'm Glad to see Techie, Dan T. and the rest are still here posting.
I'm glad too that Techie choose to insure material posted is still relevant.
To keep the momentum going I would like to add that I have been hearing about the deals since my visit to SuperComm, Quotes that I heard :
"NEC tip of the Iceburg" "You ain't seen nothing yet" have had me
waiting with baited breath for the PR.
Todays primer:
Amati already received the world's largest order ever placed for ADSL equipment with the recent Hong Kong Tel deal - now awaiting govt. signoff.
As for some quotes on other technologies being superior? I ask what
trials is this equipment in? I don't see any of these companies making deals with some of the largest Semiconductor, or largest communications companies in the world.
ADI, Westell, and Pairgain, going with Amati's DMT the American & European standard.
PR excerpts:
SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 21, 1996--Amati
Communications Corporation (NASDAQ: AMTX), released the following
information to attempt to clear some published erroneous reports.
Amati Communications does not license any technology from the
former AT&T Paradyne. In fact, Amati holds the patent rights for the
standard technology basis of the ADSL service known as Discrete
Multi-Tone (DMT). Companies that are developing standard ADSL
products license their technology from Amati. Motorola and Northern
Telecom are among the companies that have licensed the Amati
technology.
DMT was chosen as the ADSL standard by ANSI and ETSI three years
ago, following head-to-head competition with an alternative approach
called CAP in lab tests by Bellcore. DMT offers several key
advantages over the proprietary solutions: higher performance (it can
carry more data at longer lengths), higher immunity to noise on the
copper loop (permitting more robust service offering with less manual
intervention), and rate adaptation (the data rate delivered to any
given customer is automatically adapted to the distance and line
quality ensuring optimum performance at all times).
Currently, more than a dozen different telephone company field
trials are based on the Amati products designed with the DMT
technology. The products include: the Overture 4 ADSL/DMT modem
capable of up to 4 Mbps downstream and 160 Kbps upstream and the
Overture 8 ADSL/DMT Modem capable of the fastest ADSL service
available today at 8 Mbps downstream and 640 Kbps upstream.
OSWEGO, Ill., July 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Most people and the mainstream
media don't know what Wall Street, the telecommunications industry and
the trade press know about a hot, new technology that is expected to
change worldwide communications within two years. However, Westell and
Motorola Semiconductor today announced an alliance for the development
of "modern" modems that use the new ADSL* technology to speed the
information superhighway into everyone's home or business.
The new modems will use an innovative technology that the industry
unfortunately tagged years ago with an awful name (asymmetric, digital,
subscriber line) and yet another acronym (ADSL). Though the name sounds
complicated, the beauty of the technology is how easy it is for phone
companies to use it in providing customers with new services, such as
super-fast Internet access, video-on-demand, remote access to corporate
databases, distance learning, video phoning and telemedicine. By
hooking up ADSL modems at its switching center and at its customers'
sites, a phone company can use the standard, copper phone lines -- not
fiber -- to enable access to new multimedia services on one phone line,
along with simultaneous voice service. Currently, nearly 30 phone
companies worldwide have announced plans for ADSL services in 1997.
"The near-term societal impact of this technology will be
phenomenal," said J.W. Nelson, Westell's president of U.S. operations.
"The communications landscape will look radically different in just a
few years, which will greatly benefit everyone."
Westell, which developed the first ADSL modem and has the leading
market share worldwide, will incorporate Motorola's standards-based DMT
(Discrete Multi-Tone) transceiver chip, called CopperGold(TM) in its
modems and systems. In addition, the two companies will collaborate on
product design and development of future-generation, ADSL-based
semiconductors, modems and systems. The highly integrated transceivers
support both STM (synchronous transfer mode) and ATM (asynchronous
transer mode) transmission speeds up to 8 megabits-per-second (Mbps),
which is about 600 times faster than with today's common, 14,400 bit-
per-second (bps) modems. The scaleable DMT architecture supports a
range of transmission speeds from 32,000 bps to 8Mbps from the network
provider to the customer and 32,000 bps to 1Mbps from the customer to
the network provider. |
