Kelly, Albert -
>>>> My assumption was is that the life span of adsl product will be limited and amati will not produce any more products after that<<
Albert - The NEC Deal is all about VDSL, I don't understand how you
could make that statement.
>>I personnally agree with you regarding ADSL being a temporary measure; I think the ADSL sunset date will be sometime around 2003 (give ADSL 5 years in the field to recover costs of implementation, etc.)<<
Kelly - ADSL will be around a lot longer than 5 years, For VDSL you must have fiber 1000 to 6000 feet from the customer. It will take the Telco's a long time to get Fiber that close to all of us in the U.S.,
then there is the rest of the world.
A quote from the Amati Press Conference at SuperComm, by Jim Steenburgen:
"We have been working on this for over a year, probably about a year 1/2, and in terms of doing VDSL technology, that coupled with the fact of working with NEC and their directly with their FAB people we believe we can implement this very quickly.
* Question: You're pursuing VDSL, before a standard is even set? *
There will be a long battle, but we're going to keep on doing what we're doing and if we have to change some things in the end, we'll do that. But we believe we'll have a chip out before the standard is set, we'll go do that."
Just trying to keep the facts straight..
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