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To: djane who wrote (51868)	8/10/1998 6:51:00 PM
From: Kent Rattey	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 61433

Ascend Selects Cimaron's OC-12 SONET Chip; OC-12 Chip is first ATM over SONET mapper with DS3 support ANDOVER, MASS. (Aug. 10) BUSINESS WIRE -Aug. 10, 1998--Cimaron Communications Corporation announced today that Ascend Communications will use one of Cimaron's OC-12 SONET chips in its future WAN technology products. The OC-12 SONET chip , known as NILE, is flexible in its ability to support multiple applications, yet unique in that it maps ATM cells over SONET. NILE also supports on-chip DS3 framing. Ascend chose Cimaron because of the features of the NILE chip and its expertise in SONET and ATM technology, "The NILE chip will be the first OC-12 chip with integrated ATM and DS3 support," said Dennis Rainville, Vice President of Hardware Engineering, Core Switching Division at Ascend. He added, "Having a relationship with Cimaron as we develop our system reduces our risk and helps us accelerate our time to market." The NILE is one of the standard silicon products that Cimaron is currently developing. Last month, Cimaron announced that it is planning to introduce a series of Packet over SONET and ATM over SONET chips later this year and in early 1999. With a suite of OC-48 and OC-12 SONET ASIC cores already in its portfolio of standard products, a strong SONET engineering team, and a customer base that now includes Ascend, Cimaron continues to reinforce its position as the leading supplier of high speed SONET technology to the telecommunications and data communications equipment manufacturers. The NILE represents a logical standard silicon product offering for Cimaron. By integrating its SONET, ATM and DS3 cores into a single chip, datacom and telecom equipment manufactures will now have access to a single chip solution for transporting and multiplexing DS3-framed ATM traffic over SONET. "Today's high-end routers and WAN access equipment require faster SONET interconnections to telco and Internet backbones," said Ram Sudireddy, Cimaron's President and CEO. "Ascend's decision is a major endorsement of Cimaron's technology and capabilities. The NILE chip represents a natural progression for Cimaron in our efforts to expand our SONET Technology product portfolio. Our suite of OC-48 and OC-12 SONET ASIC cores, and now silicon solutions, provides the fastest and most cost-competitive SONET technology available in the marketplace today." Cimaron Communications Corporation, based in Andover, Massachusetts, is a leader in the design and development of ASIC cores and silicon solutions for high-speed SONET systems. Cimaron licenses and sells its SONET intellectual property ASIC cores and chips to companies that supply high-end data communications and telecommunications equipment.