Aware's Fast Retrain Technology Enables More Robust and Versatile DSL Services
BEDFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 19, 2000--Aware, Inc. (NASDAQ:AWRE), a worldwide leader in DSL (digital subscriber line) technology for high-speed Internet access over existing telephone networks, today announced that its market-leading fast retrain technology is a key feature in the standards-based splitterless DSL that is gaining wide acceptance throughout the telecommunications industry. Fast retrain has a number of benefits that will allow service providers to offer improved DSL services.
When DSL service is offered without fast retrain, one approach to deployment is to install a voice-data splitter at the point where the phone line enters the home, and string a new phone line from the voice-data splitter to the DSL modem in the home. While this "splittered" approach works, it has certain limitations. Fast retrain technology, which has been standardized by the ITU standards body, provides a more robust and versatile ADSL service. Benefits of fast retrain include:
--The ability for complete splitterless operation, which would eliminate the need for the voice-data splitter and the new phone line to the DSL modem.
--The ability for complete microfilterless operation, which would eliminate or at worst limit the use of microfilters to only those phones whose voice quality is impaired by the DSL signal.
--The ability to use any phone jack in the home as a high speed DSL outlet; not just the one jack provisioned by the separate phone line from the voice-data splitter.
--The robustness of the in-home network is maintained as new devices, such as phones or answering machines, are installed after initial installation is complete.
--Improved performance in changing noise and crosstalk environments.
--Quicker connection times when turning DSL modems on.
--Faster transitions from low power modes and sleep modes.
Michael A. Tzannes, president and CEO of Aware, said: "The fast retrain technique is the most significant innovation in DSL in the last three years. Fast retrain addresses the cost-effective installation of DSL within the difficult and ever-changing environment of the in-home phone network. With fast retrain, service providers can offer enhanced DSL services that can shorten installation times, maintain the robustness of the in-home network, improve performance, and contain more features."
Aware is an intellectual property company that supplies DSL technology to the semiconductor industry. Its technology offerings include patents, application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) cores, system and run-time software, and reference designs. Aware is the leader in developing fast-retrain, because it was first to market with technology that implements this innovative technique. Aware's fast retrain technology today fuels solutions from Analog Devices, Lucent and Infineon Technologies and is being incorporated into solutions from NEC, Intel, ST Microelectronics, and others. Aware presented its fast retrain techniques to the ITU standards body in 1998 to encourage a global adoption of its approach. Aware systematically protects its technology through an expanding portfolio of patents and patent applications. As a member of ITU, Aware has offered to license patents required for ITU standards under fair, equitable and non-discriminatory terms.
Tzannes added: "Solutions from our customers as well as others, which incorporate this technology, have clearly signaled the importance of this innovation. We are confident that fast retrain will be an integral part of the mass-market roll-out of DSL, because it is an innovation that enables service providers to more rapidly expand their customer bases."
About Aware
Aware, Inc. designs, develops, licenses and markets DSL technology that enables broadband communications over existing telephone networks. Its solutions, including splitterless G.Lite and full-rate ADSL, address central office as well consumer electronics requirements. The company licenses its intellectual property and software to semiconductor manufacturers and equipment manufacturers who sell products incorporating Aware's technology. Aware also markets to systems companies to encourage them to design its technology into their products, and to service providers to encourage them to deploy new broadband services based on its technology. More information about Aware can be found at aware.com.
Note to Investors:
This press release contains certain statements of a forward-looking nature relating to future events or the future financial performance of Aware. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those indicated by such forward-looking statements include the risks that Aware has a new and unproven business model, that Aware depends on a limited number of licensees, that Aware depends on equipment companies to incorporate its technology, and that DSL technology competes with other technologies for broadband access. These and other risks are described in various filings that Aware has made with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which risks are incorporated herein by reference.
CONTACT: Aware, Inc.
Kristin Griffin, (781) 687-0500
kgriffin@aware.com
or
Marenghi & Associates
Nicole Goodnow, (781) 239-0057
ngoodnow@marenghi.com
"Safe Harbor" Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: Statements in this press release regarding Aware, Inc's business which are not historical facts are "forward-looking statements" that involve risks and uncertainties. For a discussion of such risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements, see "Risk Factors" in the Company's Annual Report or Form 10-K for the most recently ended fiscal year.
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