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To: blankmind who wrote (947)	1/18/1998 2:07:00 PM
From: Gary Korn	Respond to of 1629

12/8/97 Edge on & about AT&T (Pg. Unavail. Online) 1997 WL 12807045 EDGE, on & about AT&T COPYRIGHT 1997 EDGE Publishing) Copyright 1997 Information Access Company. All rights reserved. Monday, December 8, 1997 ADSL: Alcatel Mietec Signs Memorandum of Understanding with Ascend Communications for ADSL DynaMiTe Product Development. Subscription: $940 per year as of 1/92. Published weekly. Contact Edge Publishing, P.O Box 471, Hackettstown, NJ 07840. Phone (908) 852-7217. FAX (908) 850-8304. Alcatel Mietec announced Wednesday that it has signed a memorandum of understanding with Ascend Communications under which Ascend will use Alcatel's DynaMiTe ADSL DMT (Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line - Discrete Multi-Tone modulation) chipset and firmware in its access products. The agreement covers technology for both customer premises (ATU-R) and central office (ATU-C) equipment and is expected to lead to product introductions in the second quarter of 1998. The agreement covers Alcatel's third generation rate-adaptive ADSL (R-ADSL) modem chipset, which was recently announced. The new DynaMiTe modem kit (MTK-20131 series) combines the digital functions of the DMT modem and ATM framer with the Utopia interface in a single 0.35 micron chip. A second chip incorporates the analog front end using a 0.5 micron analog process, while a third controller chip manages the ADSL modem functions. Ashok Dhawan, general manager of High Speed Communication Products at Ascend, said, "Ascend has been shipping MultiDSL products since the first quarter of 1997. MultiDSL products include ATU-R and ATU-C solutions for IDSL, SDSL, ADSL-CAP and ADSL DMT technologies. With the new chipset from Alcatel, we expect to have the lowest power, most compact DMT solution available." According to the companies, the solution will have the added benefit of immediate interoperability with ADSL equipment being deployed by the leading RBOCs (e.g., Pac Bell, Bell South, Ameritech and Southwestern Bell) and by other operators in Europe and Southeast Asia. "This agreement gives us early access to chips and firmware so that we can develop our products in parallel with Alcatel and introduce products sooner," Dhawan said. "The DynaMiTe chipset is designed to be fully compliant with issue 2 of the ANSI Standard T1E1.413 specification, category 2 which will enable our products to interwork with future products of other vendors also supporting the standard." "To bring Alcatel's ADSL chipset to the commercial market we partitioned the modem and the firmware to provide a general purpose UTOPIA and control interface," said Robert Bury, telecommunications products marketing manager at Alcatel Mietec. "By working with industry leaders such as Ascend during the final phases of our product release, we can ensure that it fits the requirements of commercial systems. Alcatel's experience from early deployment of DMT systems over the past 2 years has been incorporated into this new generation chipset which we believe will set the standard for ADSL DMT implementation when it is released in Q1 1998.". Ascend Communications, Inc. develops, manufactures, and sells wide area networking solutions for telecommunications carriers, Internet service providers, and corporate customers world-wide. FMI: ascend.com, or 800/ASCEND4. Alcatel Mietec, the Semiconductor company of Alcatel, develops, manufactures and sells both standard and custom application specific semiconductors for communications applications around the world. Served markets include data and voice communication over the public switched telephone network, cellular wireless networks, power lines, and automotive and industrial buses. FMI: www.alcatel.com/mietec. ---- INDEX REFERENCES ---- COMPANY (TICKER): Ascend Communications Inc.; ALCATEL ALSTHOM CIE. GENERALE D'ELECTRICITE; Compagnie Generale d'Electricite Alcatel Alsthom (ASND ALA F.ALA) ORGANIZATION: ALCATEL MIETEC ASCEND COMMUNICATIONS INC. KEY WORDS: TELECOMMUNICATIONS INDUSTRY: Communications Technology; Diversified Technology; Telecommunications, All (CMT DTC TEL) REGION: United States (US) Word Count: 471 12/8/97 EDGE (No Page) END OF DOCUMENT

To: blankmind who wrote (947)	1/18/1998 2:10:00 PM
From: Gary Korn	Respond to of 1629

12/19/97 Network Wk. (Pg. Unavail. Online) 1997 WL 15798184 Network Briefing Copyright 1997 Information Access Company. All rights reserved. Friday, December 19, 1997 ISSN: 1360-1369 DATACOMS:NORTEL TO ACQUIRE ASCEND COMMUNICATIONS? The latest suitor for troubled datacommunications company Ascend Communications Inc is not Lucent Technologies Inc as mooted previously, but is instead Northern Telecom Ltd, according to reports emailing their way round the industry. Nortel is apparently keen to acquire a company that can bolster its remote access efforts, and the two companies in the running are Shiva Corp and Ascend. Although Shiva is the smaller of the two, Ascend is looking relatively cheap since its share price has dropped from $80.25 in January to 27.145, with a total market value of $5.14bn. (c) ComputerWire Inc, 1997. ---- INDEX REFERENCES ---- COMPANY (TICKER): Northern Telecom Ltd.; BCE Inc.; Northern Telecom Ltd.; Ascend Communications Inc.; Lucent Technologies Inc.; Shiva Corp. (NT BCE T.NTL ASND LU SHVA) NEWS SUBJECT: World Equity Index (WEI) INDUSTRY: Communications Technology; Telecommunications, All (CMT TEL) Word Count: 97 12/19/97 NETWORKWK (No Page) END OF DOCUMENT

To: blankmind who wrote (947)	1/18/1998 2:18:00 PM
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12/15/97 Am. Network 80 1997 WL 8917775 America's Network COPYRIGHT 1997 Advanstar Communications Inc. Copyright 1997 Information Access Company. All rights reserved. Monday, December 15, 1997 ISSN: 1075-5292 Ascend unveils end-to-end xDSL system Has introduced its DSLTNT central office concentrator Ascend Communications Inc. (Alameda, Calif.) has unveiled a carrier-class concentrator and SDSL-based CPE router which, when combined, provide an end-to-end solution for carriers wishing to provision xDSL services. The DSLTNT central office (CO) concentrator supports a range of xDSL services - including IDSL, SDSL, RADSL-DMT and RADSL-CAP - as well as traditional data services. The concentrator reportedly features the highest port density of any remote access concentrator along with the lower power consumption required by carriers. The DSLPipe-2S is a customer premises router that bonds two SDSL lines together for up to 1.544 Mbps bandwidth (T1). The router also can provide 768 kbps transmission over a single SDSL line. 'It is extremely important to have a flexible platform so that we can adapt our services as market demand evolves,' says Mike Henry, president of MegaINet Inc. (Chicago). The DSLTNT provides 'plug and play' modularity, he says. 'Carriers can only keep up with [xDSL] demand by pulling together their own solutions using multiple products from different vendors,' a method that can be costly and harder to manage, according to Ashok Dhawan, general manager of high-speed access products at Ascend. Carriers and Internet service providers (ISPs) can replace banks of DSL modems, Ethernet switches and routers at the CO with the compact DSLTNT concentrator. The DSLPipe-2S router can support T1-equivalent bandwidth that service providers can, in turn, sell to their corporate customers. The CPE router provides full security, including support for industry-standard PAP and CHAP authorization and authentication protocols, remote provisioning and management, as well as the ability to consolidate IP/IPX and frame relay traffic over the same line, according to Ascend. With one platform, carriers can deliver xDSL services to corporate users, ISPs, and home office workers and telecommuters. A standard 7-ft. rack supports either 1,344 IDSL ports; 1,440 SDSL ports; 540 RADSL-CAP ports; or any mix of services. Plug-in network cards are available for DS3, HSSI, T1, E1, serial WAN, 10BaseT and 100BaseT Ethernet. Moreover, because the system supports a variety of virtual private network (VPN) protocols (including L2TP, PPTP, ATMP, FR Direct and IP Direct), carriers can offer VPN services to corporate customers or segment their own networks so they can resell bandwidth to smaller ISPs. Both systems are part of Ascend's MultiDSL product family. The DSLTNT base chassis with ADSL support lists for $8,900. RADSL-CAP modules were being sold at press time for $4,995 (six-port card). The DSLTNT features softkey upgradability to SDSL and IDSL. The DSLPipe-2S sells for $1,650. ---- INDEX REFERENCES ---- COMPANY (TICKER): Ascend Communications Inc. (ASND) ORGANIZATION: ASCEND COMMUNICATIONS INC. INDUSTRY: Communications Technology; Telecommunications, All (CMT TEL) REGION: United States (US) Word Count: 412 12/15/97 AMNETWK 80 END OF DOCUMENT