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Subj: Alcatel DynaMiTe Chips Customers Benefit From Alcatel/Amati Cross-Licensing Agre
Date: 97-10-16 11:16:53 EDT
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BRUSSELS, Belgium--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 16, 1997--Alcatel
Mietec announced an agreement with Amati covering any Amati patent
involved in the standard DMT technology implemented into the Alcatel
Mietec's DynaMiTe ADSL chipset.
This is part of the recently announced, Alcatel/Amati
cross-licensing agreement enabling both companies to use mutual
patents on ADSL and VDSL. Under the agreement Alcatel Mietec's
DynaMiTe customers now get the assurance that their DynaMiTe -based
design is legally covered. In addition, purchasers of the Mietec
chips automatically receive the right to use them in their own
products, which they can sell without additional royalty fees.
"The agreement with Amati further positions the DynaMiTe chipset
as the technology of choice for high volume ADSL deployment," said
Robert Bury, marketing manager for telecommunications products at
Alcatel Mietec. "Taking care of legal issues is part of our global
strategy to solve problems that are relevant to our customers and
that often go far beyond the pure delivery of the silicon and
software. In the same line of thought, we have designed the DynaMiTe
offering taking into account the complete system environment of the
chipset to offer straightforward integration into new or existing
designs. This reduces systems design and integration leadtime but
also considerably eases the migration from other technologies to the
standard, interoperable DMT ADSL."
Interoperability is the other benefit of the Alcatel/Amati
agreement. The latter shows that both companies are committed to the
support of the interoperability of their DMT solutions. In addition
to the compliance to the ANSI DMT standard, the use of common
patented implementations is further guaranteeing interoperability
between DMT solutions from different sources, a key requirement for
mass deployed technologies.
Alcatel Mietec is the Microelectronics division of Alcatel with
chip design and manufacturing headquartered in Belgium. Alcatel
Mietec offers both custom and standard chipsets for communications
applications with a focus on the access network technologies.
Amati Communications Corporation is a pioneer and leading
developer of advanced transmission equipment utilizing DMT technology
for the ADSL, Very High-Speed Digital Subscriber Line (VDSL) and xDSL
markets. Amati is the holder of the ADSL/DMT patents and has
licensed the technology to companies such as Alcatel, Analog Devices
Inc., Motorola and Nortel. The ADSL/DMT technology, recently
selected by BC TEL, Canada for a proposed roll out of commercial ADSL
services, is an effective means of transmitting high-speed data over
existing copper phone lines, making Internet access, interactive
services, broadcast quality video and video-on-demand realizable to
many subscribers. Amati also provides network connectivity systems
for the gateways, client-based workstation software and network data
communications interfaces. For more information about Amati
Communications, see website at www.amati.com .
CONTACT:
Alcatel
Michael Newsom, 972/996-7896
michael-newsom@aud.alcatel.com
or
Alcatel Mietec
Robert Bury, +32 2 728 18 37
ro-bury@mietec.be
or
Alcatel Mietec USA
Paul Osiecki, 972/996-2489
paul-osiecki@aud.alcatel.com
or
Amati Communications
Benjamin W. (Tac) Berry, 408/879-2035
bberry@amati.com |
