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To: Susan G who wrote (96638)	5/8/2000 1:52:00 PM
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TI, Novell show gateway for broadband Internet; DSP platform in development Semiconductor Business News (05/08/00, 08:45:32 AM EDT) LAS VEGAS -- At the Networld+Interop trade show here this week, Texas Instruments Inc. and Novell Inc. will demonstrate a prototype intelligent gateway for software configurable Internet services over digital subscriber line (DSL) connections to homes and businesses. The demonstration is intended to show how broadband Internet services can be deployed and configured for users by software, without the need for service calls by network operators. TI chip managers claim the two companies are at least a year ahead of other suppliers in developing remote intelligent gateways for broadband Internet services. The Dallas chip maker has launched a development team to port the gateway technology to an unannounced digital signal processor (DSP) platform, said Mike Hogan, general manager for broadband services products at TI. A broadband services gateway is an intelligent, programmable system, located in a home or business and capable of managing Internet access by multiple users through a single DSL connection. The system is always on the Internet, unlike dial-up modems. The initial focus of the TI/Novell gateway alliance is DSL, but cable-modem connections are also likely, hinted Hogan. "Today, broadband is rolling out in multiple flavors... It's a land grab mentality," said Hogan, referring to the race to fill the demand for high-speed connections to the Internet. But lurking on the near horizon is another challenge--how to deploy and customize Internet services over broadband links without having to send personnel to the user's site, suggested Hogan. "The deployment is really limited by the amount of 'truck rolls' you can get," he said, referring to the service calls. In the next phase of growth, Internet service providers will face "enormous management and deployment problems when 5-to-10 connected computing devices per human are connected to the Internet," Hogan predicted. The task of dealing with huge numbers of connections is expected to hit broadband service providers in the next several years. Analysts at the Yankee Group predict over 13.25 million subscribers in the U.S. will be connected by broadband services from just 650,000 in 1999. A forecast from International Data Corp. (IDC) shows 27.3 million DSL users worldwide by 2003, up from 70,000 last year. "DSP will probably power the vast majority of these [connections and capabilities]," said Hogan. Consequently, TI is moving quickly to stake out as much of the broadband turf as possible early. The TI/Novell prototype system at Networld+Interop is built around the industry's Open Services Gateway Initiative (OSGi) specification. The technology uses Novell's NDS eDirectory software to simplify management and control of the broadband network, making it easier and less expensive for deployment of services than "truck rolls," Hogan said. The gateways will enable "personalized bandwidth" launched with software, providing such features as "parental filtering" of Internet access for children and different levels of service for multiple accounts sharing the same IP address, he said. --J. Robert Lineback