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To: dave turliku who wrote (16444)	6/15/1999 12:05:00 AM
From: Skiawal	Respond to of 21342

Major Breakthrough in ADSL Interoperability Testing Advances Industry Toward Mass Deployment DALLAS, June 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Texas Instruments (NYSE: TXN - ; TI) today announced its G.lite interoperability achievements made during the University of New Hampshire (UNH) Universal ADSL Working Group (UAWG) testing initiative in May. To TI's knowledge, TI and its customers and partners have now demonstrated the largest number of interoperability connections between customer premise and central office equipment manufacturers realizing the potential for global deployment of asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL). This milestone complements the significant number of connections also achieved by other companies during this event. ''This is a significant step forward for DSL and the entire communications industry, paving the way for true mass deployment,'' said Marc Cetto, Director of Marketing for TI's Broadband Access Group. ''This also further validates our predictions for 5 million lines of ADSL to be deployed worldwide by the year 2000. As a member of the UAWG, we commend all founding companies who helped form the initiative and members who have made these achievements possible.'' Moving ahead, TI will continue to work with other industry leaders to address the following issues that remain critical to mass deployment: -- Take interoperability accomplishments from the lab to real-world field trials. -- Extend interoperability connections to longer loops of 19,000 feet and beyond. Until now, UNH interoperability testing was focused on loop lengths of 9,000 feet. -- Achieve interoperability with a complete ADSL management feature set, which includes ADSL operations channel (AOC), embedded operations channel (EOC) and bit-swapping. These features have not been tested as of today. -- Expand these interoperability efforts to full-rate ADSL. As part of this effort, TI has already achieved full-rate ADSL interoperable connections at loop lengths beyond 19,000 feet implementing the complete ADSL management feature set. TI has also taken the lead by starting the first real-world field trials. www.ti.com/sc/docs/network/interoperability.pdf For more information, contact Kathryn Bengtson of Texas Instruments Semiconductor Group, 972-480-2046, or email, kbengtson@ti.com; or Barbara Smith of Golin Harris, 214-523-9621, or email, bsmith@golinharris.com, for Texas Instruments Semiconductor Group.