SUMMARY of 1996 News and 1997 Projections (at the Bottom)
This is a good time to review 1996 and speculate on 1997. I am sure others here are more qualified than I to put this together. Someone please fill in any significant things that I missed.
December 9, 1996 - GTE Begins Second Phase of Lightning-fast Internet Access Trial in Redmond, Wash. -- to include up to 100 area firms and 50 additional Microsoft employees
November 18, 1996 - Success of First 8 Mbps ADSL/DMT System in Trial with France Telecom. France Telecom Launches First Broadcast Video Service and Internet Mid-band Services at 8 Mbps with New Overture 8 ADSL/DMT Modem Design.
November 11, 1996 - Amati and NEC -- Agreement to Develop Technology and Products for VDSL Services. (60 Mbps of Data and Video Over Copper Wire).
October 17, 1996 - Amati and TI -- Agreement to Jointly Develop and Market DMT for ADSL Modems based on TI DSPs.
October 7, 1996 - Agreement with Chatterjee Group, an Affiliate of Soros Fund Management .
September 17, 1996 - Amati and XEL Comm. -- Plans for Business Agreement on Internet Access Products.
September 11, 1996 - Amati Reports Financial Results for the Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 1996
September 4, 1996 - Amati Moves to Larger Facility and Consolidates Operations into one Building
September 4, 1996 - TV Quality Video Conferencing Over Ordinary Phone Lines Demonstrated by 8x8, Inc. and Amati using ADSL Technology.
August 14, 1996 - GTE and Microsoft Launch New High-speed Modem Technology Trial to Provide Faster Internet Access. Amati to provide modems.
August 14, 1996 - GTE Calls its Industry-first, Data Asymmetrical Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) Trial in Texas a Success.
August 7, 1996 - Amati and Tadiran Report Positive Results in ADSL Video-on-Demand Trial in Israel.
June 25, 1996 - Amati Announces Memorandum of Understanding with NEC Corporation to Develop VDSL Transceiver LSI First agreement to develop Very High Speed Digital Subscriber Line technology .
June 24, 1996 - Amati announces Overture 8 ADSL/DMT modem for Internet access.
June 24, 1996 Amati announces industry's first standard ADSL/DMT core design module set -- based on Amati's Overture 8 ADSL/DMT modem.
June 21, 1996 - Amati releases information to attempt to clear erroneous facts published today (Licensing issues misrepresented in recent reports)
May 31, 1996 - Amati to Sponsor T1.413 ADSL Interoperability Workshop. Workshop will focus on harmonizing DMT.
May 22, 1996 - Amati and Telecom of Switzerland report encouraging results in ADSL interactive video trial -- VOD, teleshopping, information and games.
April 29, 1996 - Amati and Motorola Announce Next Step in ADSL/DMT Licensing Agreement .
April 2, 1996 - GTE expands ADSL data trial -- announces move to enhance high-speed testing.
April 2, 1996 - Amati and Sourcecom demonstrate Internet access at speeds far in excess of ISDN.
February 20, 1996 - Second Quarter 1996 Results.
January 9, 1996 - Jim Steenbergen appointed as President and CEO
November 28, 1995 - ICOT completes the acquisition of Amati
***FUTURE (some are speculation, some are not) ***
NEC -- VDSL developments and perhaps trials announced by NEC and Amati
Motorola -- CopperGold announcements/deliveries.
Texas Instruments -- Amati and TI product announcements
GTE -- more trial results and announcement of plans
France Telecom -- More news
Telecomm of Sweden -- More news
Alcatel - News
XEL Comm -- News on Amati/XEL Comm products
New deals? Firming of above agreements? Details of agreements? Products shipped? More trial results?
Conferences/Shows
InterOpts - Demonstrations?
Comdex - Demonstrations?
January 1997 - Dr. Cioffi and Motorola speakers at SuperCon 1997.
February 20, 1997 - Second quarter 1997 results (loss is expected)
May 15, 1997 - Third quarter 1997 results (loss is expected)
July 31, 1997 - the 1997 Fiscal year ends, 1998 begins
September 11, 1997 - Financial Results for the Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 1997
December 10, 1997 - First quarter of Fiscal Year 1998 announced (first positive earnings ??)
December 20, 1997 - Annual Stockholders meeting
I hope you all have a great year! A Big Thank You to all who participate!
John Morrison |
