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To: Bill who wrote (6631)	6/22/1999 11:16:00 AM
From: Paul Lee	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9236

Aware's G.Lite Technology Compliant With ITU's Approved G.992.2 Standard BEDFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 22, 1999--Aware, Inc. (NASDAQ:AWRE), a worldwide leader in DSL (Digital Subscriber Line) technology and a pioneer of G.Lite technology, announced that its DSL technology is compliant with all of the technical specifications of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) G.992.2 standard. The new standard, which was determined by the ITU in October 1998, was approved earlier today at the ITU Study Group Meeting in Geneva, Switzerland. The G.Lite standard for DSL technology will accelerate the delivery of high-speed Internet access to the home. The approval of the standard fulfills the vision of a single consumer-oriented global standard for high-speed data access over phone lines. G.Lite services transmit Internet data up to 25 times faster than today's fastest analog modems, without requiring voice-data splitters at every home. Through its efforts to pioneer and prove the viability of G.Lite technology, Aware was able to provide key technical submissions, including splitterless techniques and low complexity algorithms, to the Universal ADSL Working Group and the ITU G.Lite Study Group. Aware also served as an ITU editor during the drafting and approval process for the new standard. As a leading independent provider of DSL technology, Aware has already developed and licensed technology for G.Lite that implements the new standard. According to Dataquest, Aware's technology enabled 58% of the chipsets sold in the ADSL industry in 1998. Aware-enabled chipsets, the majority of which were sold by Analog Devices, fuel standard compliant offerings from a number of leading telecommunications and networking companies, including 3Com, Ascend, Cisco, Compaq, Efficient Networks, ECI Telecom, Ericsson, Hyundai Electronics, Newbridge Networks, Nortel Networks, and Samsung Electronic Ltd. "Aware has fulfilled its commitment to deliver technology that conforms to the new ITU standard, placing the company and its customers in a strong market position. The G.Lite standard will be used for data access over phone lines worldwide, enabling true high-speed Internet access for consumers." said Michael Tzannes, president and chief executive officer of Aware, Inc. Several of Aware's recent licensees had the following comments: "The final standardization of the ITU's G.Lite standard means that the DSL market can grow even more quickly," said Christian Wolff, vice president of Business Unit Analog Transceiver, Infineon Technologies. "Aware has significantly reduced the risk for standard-compliant implementations of G.Lite technology today. Aware's outstanding ADSL experience and the very advanced stage of its G.Lite development adds high-performance and proven interoperability to our chipset." Chung Ho, Director of Marketing for WAN Products, NEC Electronics Inc. stated: "Aware's G.Lite technology is already the de facto standard in the DSL industry, and now with the advent of the final ITU G.Lite standard, our market opportunity for customer-oriented solutions based on Aware's standard-compliant technology is significantly increased. We expect to see accelerated deployment from equipment makers and service providers alike." Aware has also demonstrated its technology leadership through its commitment to industry-wide interoperability. Aware's technology has been prominently featured in numerous interoperability events, including the UAWG's G.lite Interoperability Booth at Supercomm '99 in which Aware's technology fueled more than half of the connections established.

To: Bill who wrote (6631)	6/24/1999 2:59:00 AM
From: Scrapps	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9236

Broadband gets closer to the home Matthew Broersma, ZDNet What if getting connected to broadband Internet service were as easy as plugging in your telephone? That vision came a step closer to reality Tuesday with the approval of G.Lite, a standard for digital subscriber lines (DSL) that makes the technology easier to install for consumers, and easier to roll out for service providers. Some experts believe G.Lite could mean a significant decrease in the time it will take to deploy DSL to the mass market. As with every type of broadband technology, DSL is expected to take several years to reach widespread market penetration. But G.Lite "could shorten that time quite a bit," said analyst Rob Enderle of Giga Information Group. "That projection includes the time it would take to pre-wire every house. If we can get away from that, it could reduce it by as much as a third." Presently, DSL installation requires the telephone company to send a worker to your house to install a splitter and test your telephone line. G.Lite does not require a splitter -- users could buy and install the modem themselves, or it could even be preinstalled on their PCs. Faster rolloutsG.Lite, also called Universal ADSL, and referred to as G.922.2 by the International Telecommunications Union, was determined in October and reached final ITU approval this week. It is based on the same technology as DSL, which provides an "always-on" connection at speeds many times that of a conventional modem. The standard will make it easier for consumers to get plugged in, but the real benefit could be in allowing faster rollouts by communications providers. Besides eliminating the need to send out a technician, G.Lite also works in places where a conventional DSL modem will not. That's because it works with Digital Loop Carrier, a digital technology introduced to enhance phone networks in the 1980s. Conventional DSL can't be carried over DLC lines. Not as fast"This removes one more roadblock for deploying DSL," said Clay Ryder, an analyst at Zona Research. The tradeoff for these advantages is in speed. While full-on DSL can reach download speeds of up to 8Mbps and upload speeds of 1.5Mbps, G.Lite is limited to 1.5Mbps downstream and 512Kbps upstream. But that's still much faster than the speediest of modems, which are only 56Kbps downstream. And the availability of the standard doesn't change the fact that communications companies still have to upgrade central switching offices around the country for DSL to work. "It's still up to the phone companies to make it work, and that's going to be, and has been, a slow ramp," said analyst Chris Mines of Forrester Research Inc. Although G.Lite modems are already being manufactured, Mines thinks that reliable, consumer-friendly versions won't be available until Christmas 2000. Jupiter Communications expects residential DSL usage to reach just 500,000 users by the end of this year, but as many as 3.4 million homes by 2002. Isn't that close to the cable numbers Bill? dailynews.yahoo.com