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To: Skiawal who wrote (14073)	11/17/1998 12:28:00 PM
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Toshiba and Alcatel Announce Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) Technology Agreement Toshiba to Develop and Market New ADSL Chipsets. SAN JOSE, Calif., Nov. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. (TAEC) today announced that Toshiba Corporation of Japan and Alcatel (NYSE: ALA - news) have agreed to a licensing arrangement for Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) technology under which Toshiba will develop, manufacture, and market chipsets which support the transmission of video, Internet services and other high-bandwidth data over conventional telephone lines. ADSL is viewed as one of the primary solutions to the bandwidth limitations plaguing businesses and consumers today. ADSL technology turns standard twisted-pair copper phone lines into a high-speed connection for Internet access, video conferencing, remote access and multimedia applications, such as video on demand. It supports an upstream bit rate of 640 kilobits a second and a downstream rate of up to 8 megabits per second. Downstream is allocated a higher bit rate to handle large data transfers after the initial upstream connection is made. Toshiba will introduce its first large-scale integrated circuits (LSI) using capabilities licensed from Alcatel in June, 1999. From this, Toshiba will develop ADSL LSI supporting ISDN in Europe and time-compression multiplex ISDN in Japan. Future developments will support G.Lite, the ADSL specification for 1.5 megabit per second downstream. Toshiba intends to combine the advantages of ADSL with its own capabilities in asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) switching, ethernet and RISC technology, and to apply the results to modem products, cost-effective solutions for PCs, and a series of high performance derivative products with a distinct technological edge. Toshiba can respond to customer demand for ADSL by applying its intellectual property to ASSP or customized ASIC products. ''I am happy to welcome Toshiba as a valuable licensing partner in our strategic licensing program,'' said Martin De Prycker, VP and general manager Internet Access & ADSL, Alcatel. He continues, ''Alcatel now has a well-balanced ADSL licensee portfolio, with a complete geographical coverage which will support the dominant position of Alcatel in the future ADSL market.'' ''We are very pleased to form this alliance,'' said Javed Mohammed, TAEC's business development manager. ''Alcatel is a leader in ADSL Technology. This agreement gives us excellent positioning in the emerging market for ADSL-supported technologies and solutions and -- together with our ATM and ethernet capabilities -- strengthens our presence in network applications.''