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To: Paul Lee who wrote (6579)	6/8/1999 2:58:00 PM
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Another good guy Nortel Networks to Participate in UAWG's SuperComm G.lite Interoperability Showcase ATLANTA, June 8 /PRNewswire/ - Continuing its leadership in mass market, deployable splitterless DSL access, Nortel Networks (NYSE/TSE: NT) today announced its participation in the Universal ADSL Working Group's (UAWG) Interoperability Showcase at SUPERCOMM Spring 1999. Nortel Networks will be showcasing G.lite on the Universal Edge 9000, Nortel Network's new multi-service high-speed access platform. The Universal Edge 9000 access platform offers high-speed data access and cost-effective telephony services on a unified packet network infrastructure, enabling new Internet Protocol (IP) services while providing seamless migration from circuit-based switching to next-generation packet networks. The universal ADSL (G.lite) standard was developed to accelerate deployment of high-speed broadband services over existing phone lines. The standard is intended to more cost-effectively increase bandwidth for the consumer by eliminating the need for a voice data splitter at subscribers' homes. Nortel Networks has been leading the industry charge toward providing low cost, consumer deployable high-speed access,'' said Steve Edwards, vice president of Nortel Networks' Access Networks Division. ''We know through our experience with 1-Meg Modem that simplicity of installation and service price points under US$25 are key to the consumer mass market. The unprecedented efforts of the UAWG over the past year to rally the industry around a common standard have taken the marketplace another step closer to a true mass market high speed service offering.'' Nortel Networks Universal Edge 9000 supports both full rate and G.lite line card technology based on the 918 Gen2+ ADSL Chipsets developed by Analog Devices, Inc., the No.1 supplier of ADSL chipsets in 1998. Through Nortel Networks 1-Meg Modem deployments and relationship with ADI, Nortel Networks has a combined wealth of experience in both full rate and splitterless technologies. Visitors of the showcase will have the opportunity to see Nortel Networks' Universal Edge 9000 configured as a broadband digital loop carrier interoperating with Universal ADSL (G.lite) Customer Premise Equipment (CPE) and chipset vendors such as, 3Com, AMD, Cayman, Compaq, Efficient Networks, ITeX, Lucent Technologies Microelectronics Group WildWire Chipset, Motorola and Samsung. Nortel Networks is committed to expanding the availability of high-speed data access to the consumer market space, as was demonstrated by our recently announced UE 9000 contract for ADSL and G.lite with Bell Atlantic estimated to be worth US $600 million.'' said Glenn Falcao, president, Internet and Service Provider Networks, Nortel Networks. ''We are pleased to participate in the interoperability demonstration and to have contributed to the UAWG's reference specification. We look forward to working with the ADSL Forum to further promote and refine the G.lite consumer value set so that we can further move the yardstick toward mass deployable consumer product offerings.'' Nortel Networks delivers value to customers around the world through Unified Networks solutions, spanning mission-critical telephony and IP-optimized networks. Customers include public and private enterprises and institutions; Internet service providers; local, long-distance, cellular and PCS communications companies, cable television carriers, and utilities.