The Level One/Pairgain HDSL2 chip set is coming out this week.
...Last year, Level One hinted it would enter the ADSL/G.Lite market, but at the same time, began to push HDSL-2, a 1.5-Mbps business-oriented technology intended to replace T1 connections in office environments. This week, Level One will formally introduce its HDSL-2 product, a three-chip solution that sells for $60.96 in quantities of 1,000....
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Pairgain/Level One news release on 10/28/99,
PairGain Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: PAIR) and Level One Communications, Inc. today announced that the companies have combined their strengths to develop a powerful new HDSL2-based chip set, which is the industry's first solution to meet the stringent American National Standards Institute (ANSI) T1E1.4 technical standard requirements the two companies helped to define. HDSL2 is based on the Overlapped Pulse-amplitude-modulation (PAM) Transmission with Interlocking Spectra (OPTIS) line code originally conceived by PairGain.
PairGain and Level One have delivered the industry's first HDSL2 standards-based chip set, which will enable telcos to offer their business customers with T1 transport over a single copper pair, versus the two pair requirements of today's T1 HDSL solutions.
The joint development by the two companies has resulted in other companies adopting the chip set for product development, thus bringing the prospect of HDSL2 interoperability closer to reality....
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