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To: Norm Magic who wrote (4200)	6/3/1998 11:38:00 AM
From: Paul Lee	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4429

Back to business: DSC and Westell Technologies to Supply Equipment for Initial Rollout of Bell Atlantic ADSL Services This Year, Bell Atlantic Customers will be Able to get "Always-On" Internet Connections Over Existing Copper Telephone Lines -- at Speeds up to 250 Times Faster than the Typical Dial-Up Connection -- Via Broadband High-Speed ADSL Data Services DALLAS and AURORA, Ill., June 3 /PRNewswire/ -- DSC Communications Corporation (Nasdaq: DIGI) and Westell Technologies (Nasdaq: WSTL) announced today that Bell Atlantic will use DSC's Litespan(R)-2000 access systems and Westell's integrated SuperVision(R) Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) modems for its initial commercial deployment of high-speed Internet access services. Earlier today, Bell Atlantic announced that it would begin providing ADSL services within its network, which consists of more than 41 million telephone access lines. ADSL is the ideal consumer vehicle for high-speed access to the Internet and other online services. In support of the Bell Atlantic ADSL deployment, DSC and Westell have teamed together to provide an end-to-end ADSL solution. DSC systems, integrated with Westell's SuperVision ADSL technology, are being deployed in Bell Atlantic central offices. Westell is also providing its SuperVision Customer Premise Equipment, or high-speed ADSL modems, for installation at Bell Atlantic's customer sites. Bell Atlantic will provide ADSL consumer service, known as Bell Atlantic InfoSpeed, in the Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. metropolitan areas beginning in September, making ADSL service available in central offices serving nearly two million lines by the end of 1998. New Jersey's Hudson River waterfront will follow in October and the New York City and Boston metropolitan areas will come online next year. Additional markets will be announced in the future. Available speeds will be up to 7.1 Mbps from the network. In addition to providing customers with the ability to transmit data at very high speeds, ADSL also relieves the public voice network of data traffic congestion. ADSL directs the data traffic to and from the users' PCs directly to the ATM/IP (Asynchronous Transfer Mode/Internet Protocol) switches and routers that make up the high-speed backbone network. "The scale of this ADSL rollout and the service benefits it will bring to Bell Atlantic's customers are remarkable," said Mike Pisterzi, vice president, DSC's Access Division. "DSC is developing a unique ADSL solution that will allow Bell Atlantic to offer ADSL service in the future from installed Litespan systems. We are pleased to offer our Litespan access systems in support of Bell Atlantic's 'always-on' services, and we look forward to continuing our ADSL interoperability work with Westell as the technology develops further." Marc Zionts, Westell's CEO, stated, "Bell Atlantic's commercial deployment will be getting off to a very impressive start. We're about to see some of our country's largest cities in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions be wired with DSC/Westell ADSL solutions."