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To: John F Beule who wrote (309)	6/9/1998 9:14:00 PM
From: John F. Dowd	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 615

How does that impact GIC? JFD

To: John F Beule who wrote (309)	6/9/1998 11:19:00 PM
From: flickerful	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 615

Tuesday June 9, 11:11 am Eastern Time Company Press Release SOURCE: Lucent Technologies General Instrument Conducts CATV Testing on Lucent's New AllWave(TM) Fiber MURRAY HILL, N.J., June 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Lucent Technologies (NYSE: LU - news) today announced that General Instrument (NYSE: GIC - news) is the first company to evaluate its new AllWave Fiber for application in the cable television environment. As part of a strategic relationship with Lucent to investigate the network advantages of AllWave optical fiber, General Instrument said it has confirmed the compatibility of AllWave with GI's OmniStar(R) and Cableoptics(R) product lines. Lucent's AllWave Fiber, introduced last week, is a breakthrough in the fiber industry, as the first optical fiber to allow transmission in the 1400 nanometer (nm) region of the optical spectrum -- compared to fiber being installed in the marketplace today which can only support 1310 nm and 1550 nm transmission. ''Verifying the compatibility of Lucent's AllWave Fiber with our products is a first step,'' said Bick Remmey, Senior Vice President and General Manager of GI's Transmission Network Systems business unit. ''The architectural and product advantages of AllWave Fiber present upside potential for our products -- which we intend to investigate and apply whenever possible. Lucent's product has very important implications for Dense-Wave-Division-Multiplexing (DWDM) in both the forward and return paths in cable networks.'' ''AllWave was developed with the CATV marketplace in mind,'' said Bill Spivey, president of Lucent's Network Products Group. ''We have developed a manufacturing process for fiber that virtually eliminates water in glass. As a result, we are able to utilize virtually all of the fiber spectrum of AllWave, providing a broader operating range where applications such as CATV and data-on-demand services operate more effectively.'' Lucent said its new AllWave Fiber provides another 100nm of usable spectrum, which gives CATV companies and local service providers at least 50% more capacity and greater flexibility for delivering digital and analog services. ''What really makes AllWave attractive is that it supports anything today's conventional singlemode fiber supports, such as 1310 nm and 1550 nm video distribution,'' said Bob Mohalley, vice president of marketing and management for Lucent's Network Products Group. ''In addition, we're providing an entirely new band of wavelengths in the 1400 nm region for expanding services.'' By installing AllWave today, Mohalley said network providers have potential for accommodating tremendously increased traffic -- whether it's analog or digital, low or high speed. ''That's very important insurance for growth in today's world, where Internet traffic alone is growing at a rate of over 200% per year,'' he added. AllWave Fiber is currently in production at Lucent's fiber manufacturing facility in Atlanta. Lucent Technologies was one of the first to demonstrate transmission of a trillion bits of data per second (more than all the world's Internet traffic) on a single strand of TrueWave Fiber. AllWave Fiber extends the capabilities of Lucent's fiber even further. Lucent Technologies, the largest vertically integrated fiber-optic cable manufacturer in the world, has a long list of ''firsts'' in optical fiber technology. Bell Labs is responsible for such innovative fiber-optic technology inventions as the laser in 1958. General Instrument Corporation is the world leader in analog and digital systems that provide video, audio and high-speed Internet/data services over cable and satellite TV networks. GI's cable and satellite TV operations have approximately 7,000 employees and annual sales of approximately $1.8 billion. For more information, visit General Instrument at its Web Site -- gi.com. Lucent Technologies designs, builds and delivers a wide range of public and private networks, communications systems and software, business telephone systems and microelectronics components. Bell Labs is the research and development arm for the company. More information about Lucent Technologies, headquartered in Murray Hill, NJ, is available on its Web site at lucent.com. SOURCE: Lucent Technologies ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Copyright c 1998 PRNewswire. All rights reserved. Republication or redistribution of PRNewswire content is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of PRNewswire. PRNewswire shall not be liable for any errors or delays in the content, or for any actions taken in reliance thereon. See our Important Disclaimers and Legal Information. Questions or Comments?

To: John F Beule who wrote (309)	6/12/1998 5:40:00 PM
From: matt gray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 615

Does anyone recollect a GI license agreement with Hitachi? Does this mean that GIC could be making money on these Hitachi sets? I guess this assumes that Hitachi buys ICs from Hitachi semiconductor: (a) Hitachi Enters Licensing Agreement with General Instrument Corporation Hitachi Semiconductor (America) Inc. has signed a patent license agreement with General Instrument Corporation (NYSE: GIC - news) under which Hitachi plans to incorporate several of General Instrument's patented cable modem technologies in the HD49430F downstream as well as other upcoming MCNS-compliant products.