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To: riposte who wrote (30660)	3/16/1998 7:37:00 PM
From: pat mudge	Respond to of 31386

The news keeps on coming: <<< Integrated Telecom Express Announces Industry's First ADSL Technology Optimized for PCs PR Newswire - March 16, 1998 06:04 SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Integrated Telecom Express, Inc. (ITeX) today announced the industry's first Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) technology optimized for personal computers, set-top boxes, notebook computers, PDAs (Personal Digital Assistants), etc. The technology is compatible with the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) Standard T1.413 which uses Discrete Multitone (DMT) connections. Key Points * New Technology Provides Fast, Cheap Internet Access on Standard Phone Lines * Low-Cost, Scalable SAM Technology Has 15 Patent-Pending Innovations * Maintains Compatibility with Approved Industry ADSL Standard * Splitterless Approach Eliminates Home Re-Wiring The Scalable ADSL Modem (SAM) technology will be the basis for a low-cost integrated circuit solution this year that will allow personal computer (PC) users to surf the Internet at least ten times faster than is currently possible with 56 Kbps modems. The new technology was developed to meet the stringent cost requirements of PC manufacturers, and it includes 15 patent-pending innovations. The SAM technology also uses about half the power of other solutions, which makes it important for notebook computers and PDAs. The company is well positioned to succeed based on its years of experience designing and supplying PC chip sets, and considering the backing of investors such as the billion dollar United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) in Taiwan. The engineering team, which is led by Dr. Max Liu, has made significant progress during the last two years, including a successful demonstration of its SAM technology at Fall Comdex 1997. According to Jow Peng, Director of Marketing, "We are very familiar with PC pricing from ten years of experience developing core logic. Based on this background, we realize that ADSL integrated circuits for PCs require a special focus that isn't being pursued in the industry. The current flurry of activity has centered around the development of a single ADSL solution for use in both the telephone company equipment and PCs. This approach cannot satisfy both parties because they have such radically different pricing strategies. "We have focused on developing an ADSL silicon solution that will be optimized for the pricing structure of the PC industry. We have further focused on a solution that follows the industry ANSI T1.413 standard because its international reach supports the PC makers goal of world-wide sales. The ANSI T1.413 standard is also appealing because it is rapidly being implemented by most telephone companies in the United States." About SAM Technology SAM technology is completely compatible with ANSI Standard T1.413 which means its chips can talk to any other chip that uses the standard. The SAM technology is significant because it makes it possible to scale up a modem's maximum transfer speed as CODEC and DSP prices fall, and as processor speeds increase. SAM technology also allows a PC user to scale the transfer speed dynamically through the use of special ITeX software. This software allows a PC user to allocate more processor bandwidth to the modem function in order to gain greater transfer speed. The initial ADSL modem based on SAM will implement up to 128 of the 255 possible ADSL channels for a maximum transfer rate ranging from 384 Kbps to 2.5 Mbps. The SAM modems are usually as fast as the more expensive ADSL modems (that support all 255 channels) because telephone lines rarely have enough quality to allow the use of all the channels. This scalability in speed is possible because, according to the T1.413 standard, the ADSL transfer rate is set by the modem chip in the PC. The initial SAM modems will be designed to signal a maximum transfer rate of 2.5 Mbps (i.e., 128 channels). However, they will also have the ability to automatically go to lower speeds for lower quality telephone lines in accordance with the T1.413 standard. The 2.5 Mbps speed of the initial SAM modems is based on a medium-speed DSP chip sharing some of its processing with a personal computer's processor. As DSP prices fall, faster versions of SAM modems can be designed, or as processor speeds increase, users can get immediate speed improvements without any change in their modems. About ADSL Technology ADSL is a technology that was developed to increase the speed of Internet access and web surfing over ordinary telephone lines. The technology is made possible by advanced modem chips that sit at each end of the telephone line and translate the data into a format that can pass over standard twisted pair wires. The ANSI T1.413 specification defines the maximum transfer rate to be 8 Mbps and the minimum rate to be 32 Kbps. When a computer user places a call to the Internet, the modem in the PC will begin a series of handshaking steps with the modem at the other end of the line modem to determine the maximum speed the telephone line will allow. Once this speed is established, the PC user is now connected to the Internet at the fastest rate supported by the telephone line. The ANSI TI.413 version of ADSL achieves its high speed by transferring data over the phone line using many different frequencies or channels (up to 255). This is similar to the concept of a radio receiver that uses different stations or channels to get information. In the same way, ADSL modems transfer vast amounts of information by breaking it up and sending it over different channels to the modem chip in a PC. The PC modem chip then "reassembles" the data from the different channels and forwards it to the computer screen. >>>>

To: riposte who wrote (30660)	3/16/1998 7:40:00 PM
From: pat mudge	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 31386

And good earnings news for Alcatel based on ADSL: <<< Alcatelat all-time high ahead of results Reuters Story - March 16, 1998 05:39 PARIS, March 16 (Reuters) - Alcatel Alsthom on Monday continued its recent strong rise on expectations of a bullish statement with its 1997 final results due on Thursday, traders said. The company is expected to confirm its provisional 1997 net income of 4.6 billion francs against 2.7 billion in 1996, despite a 500 million franc provision for Asia risk. The ADR was up strongly overnight in New York and the group is slowly moving towards multiples for a high-tech company instead of the lower multiples it used to have as an industrial group. Alcatel is well placed for the Assymetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) technology which can boost data and Internet traffic capacity on existing phone lines. At 1013 GMT, Alcatel was up 3.51 percent at 913 francs, after hitting an all-time high of 919 francs. It previous high of 913 was set in 1994. The CAC-40 index was up 0.39 percent at 3554.18.>>>