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To: JW@KSC who wrote (30625)	3/5/1998 10:48:00 AM
From: emichael	Respond to of 31386

Lucent Technologies and Westell Technologies Will Meet ADSL Encoding Scheme Expected to be Set as Industry Standard PR Newswire - March 05, 1998 09:42 LU WSTL %TLS %PDT V%PRN P%PRN Discrete Multitone Solution to be Available for Lucent 5ESS(R)-2000 Switches AURORA, Ill., March 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Lucent Technologies (NYSE: LU) and Westell Technologies (Nasdaq: WSTL) plan to offer telecommunications service providers Asymmetrical Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) capabilities that are based on technology an international consortium has said will be the industry standard. Late in 1998, Lucent and Westell plan to offer to service providers the hardware and software solution integrated into Lucent's 5ESS(R)-2000 Switch. When the solution is implemented, Lucent's 5ESS switch will support ADSL services in addition to the wireline and wireless voice and data services it supports today. The solution is based on Discrete Multitone (DMT) line coding with an Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) network interface. The platform on the 5ESS switch will allow service providers to use existing phone lines to offer their residential and business customers ADSL services such as access to the Internet at speeds nearly 30 times faster than today's fastest modems. A working group within the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in February named the DMT with ATM platform as the encoding scheme standard for ADSL. Lucent and Westell are members of the ITU, which is in the process of completing all of the specifications for ADSL. Lucent and Westell will upgrade their basic DMT with ATM platform when the ITU sets final specifications. "The relationship between our two companies will bring lightning-fast data services to telecom providers more quickly and efficiently than was thought possible only a few months ago," said Frank D'Amelio, Lucent's vice president of switching and access product management and marketing. "The capability will exist this year to provide ADSL features on the more than 100 million lines currently served by the 5ESS Switch." Westell's Marc Hafner, executive vice president of business development and corporate strategy, said, "Our expertise in ADSL will make Lucent's switch a single point of contact for data services. Westell also is excited to extend our relationship with Lucent. We've been working together since early last year to incorporate our technology into Lucent's digital loop carrier imbedded base." The DMT with ATM platform plan between the two companies is part of Lucent's strategy to provide common ADSL architecture for telecom service providers' central offices, remote offices and digital loop carriers. That strategy includes two previous agreements between Lucent and Westell for the design and manufacture of ADSL solutions. Those agreements involve Lucent's digital loop carrier product lines, specifically the SLC(R)-Series 5 and SLC(R)-2000 and resale agreements for Westell's SuperVision(R) product line. When combined with the integration of ADSL into the 5ESS switch, these solutions will give service providers a flexible platform within their existing infrastructures to deliver a variety of ADSL services to mass-market and high-end user on an incremental, on-demand basis without incurring huge equipment upgrade costs. A common ADSL architecture is part of Lucent's AnyMedia(TM) platform, which will cover a variety of applications in a service provider's central office or remote location. Lucent's approach to integrated ADSL will culminate in the company's AnyMedia Access System being developed by Lucent's Bell Laboratories. In addition to ADSL service, the AnyMedia Access System will handle ordinary telephone service, ISDN service and broadband services on the same shelf in the switch or remote terminal. Westell Technologies, Inc. is a holding company for Westell, Inc., Conference Plus, Inc., and Westell WorldWide Services, Inc. Westell, Inc. is a leading innovator and manufacturer of xDSL systems and telecommunications access products, with corporate headquarters in Aurora, Ill. Conference Plus is a telecommunications service bureau. Westell WorldWide Services provides engineering, installation and network management services. Additional information can be obtained by visiting Westell's Web site at westell.com. Lucent Technologies, headquartered in Murray Hill, N.J., designs, builds and delivers a wide range of public and private networks, communications systems and software consumer and business telephone systems and microelectronic components. Bell Labs is the research and development arm for the company. For more information about Lucent Technologies, visit our web site at lucent.com. SOURCE Lucent Technologies /CONTACT: Gordon Zwirkoski of Lucent Technologies, office - 847-290-3382, home - 847-358-7950, or gzwirkoski@lucent.com; or Mark Meudt of Westell Technologies, office - 630-375-4125, pager - 630-249-1505, or mmeud@westell.com/ /Web site: lucent.com westell.com (LU WSTL)