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To: Skiawal who wrote (10574)	5/6/1998 4:11:00 PM
From: Dug	Respond to of 21342

Skiawal Message 4347944 <I saw the LU DSLAM.... it has 8 lines/card... big cards... and it holds 96 lines/shelf. This is an IP only solution... it's not going to compete against the Westell end-to-end ATM solution. ohh.. the DSLAM isn't working yet... 1 or 2 months away.> Regards, Dug

To: Skiawal who wrote (10574)	5/6/1998 5:23:00 PM
From: Zephod	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21342

>I thought LU was going to be marketing WSTL's DSLAM Richard; Lucent will still market Westell's DSLAM, just not quite yet. As Andreas mentioned there are 2 different products (WildWire IP ADSL Access System / AnyMedia ATM Access System)....BTW I heard the ADSL panel as well. Daniel Briere mentioned Bell Atlantic deployment (as Dr Tech mentioned) Pittsburgh June or July. The relationship between Lucent Technologies and Westell Technologies to meet the expected ADSL encoding scheme standard is part of Lucent's overarching strategy to provide integrated ADSL architecture for telecom service providers' central offices, remote offices and digital loop carriers. Telecom service providers desire a portfolio of ADSL products that maximize market coverage, are flexible and compatible, minimize capital investment and are complete end-to-end solutions. Lucent will provide solutions that cover both the Central Office and the OSP environments, the embedded base, the next generation switching and Digital Loop Carriers and the stand alone DSLAM market. Lucent will provide efficient and easy installation/administration of integrated plug-in solutions for both the 5ESSr-2000 Switch and Digital Loop Carriers. A working group within the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in February named the Discreet Multitone (DMT) with Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) encoding scheme as the standard for ADSL. Lucent and Westell are members of the ITU, which coordinates global telecom networks and services. The ITU is completing all of the specifications for ADSL. Lucent and Westell will upgrade their basic DMT with ATM platform when the ITU sets its complete and final specifications for the platform. Lucent is poised to leverage its experience and embedded base in central offices and digital loop carriers to deliver its DMT-based ADSL product line. The overall strategy includes two previous agreements between Lucent and Westell for the design and manufacture of ADSL solutions. Those agreements involved Lucent's digital loop carrier product lines, specifically the SLCr-Series 5 and SLCr-2000, and resale agreements for Westell's SuperVisionr product line. When ADSL is integrated into the 5ESSr-2000 Switch, these solutions will give service providers a flexible platform within their existing infrastructures to deliver ADSL services to mass market and high-end users on an incremental, on-demand basis without huge equipment upgrade costs. Telecom carriers will be able to offer their customers consistently superb high-speed transmission services over a variety of network arrangements. The solution also will allow service providers to offer regional coverage to the mass market. Lucent's approach to a fully integrated ADSL architecture will culminate in the implementation of the AnyMedia platform, which covers applications in a service provider's central office or remote location. Lucent's AnyMedia Access System Fast can be deployed using the same ADSL application packs in a service provider's central office or outside plant digital loop carrier. AnyMedia Access System-being developed by Lucent's Bell Laboratories-will allow service providers to offer a full complement of ADSL high-speed data transmission services to homes or other premises over existing copper wire networks. In addition to ADSL services, AnyMedia Access System will handle ordinary telephone service, ISDN service and broadband services on the same shelf in the switch or remote terminal. Using the same shelf will reduce network complexity and costs. At this stage in the development of AnyMedia Access System, the Westell and Lucent partnership focuses solely on efficiently integrating technologies to deliver ADSL services. ADSL uses ordinary copper wires to deliver as much as 1.5 million bits of information per second to a consumer's computer at home. That's nearly 30 times faster than today's fastest modems delivering 56,000 bits of information per second. ADSL can deliver information in the business environment of as much as 8 million bits per second. lucent.com