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To: Scrapps who wrote (4811)	11/17/1998 3:02:00 PM
From: Paul Lee	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 9236

back to business: Aware's DSL Technology Fuels Shipment of First Splitterless G.lite PC Modems; Compaq's New Presario PCs Enable Mass Deployment of ADSL BEDFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 17, 1998--Aware, Inc. (NASDAQ:AWRE), a worldwide leader in xDSL technology for high speed Internet access and a pioneer of splitterless ADSL (Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line) announced that Compaq's shipment of ADSL enabled PCs completes a critical step towards the mass deployment of ADSL. Aware's splitterless DSL-Lite Technology, which is compliant with the newly determined ITU G.992.2 or G.lite standard, began shipping yesterday in Compaq's new Presario 5100c Series Internet PCs and 5600 Series PCs. Aware's DSL-Lite eliminates the need for the installation of a splitter in every home, making the PC modems that incorporate this technology as easy to install as today's voiceband modems. Compaq's new 1.5 Mb Max Digital modem employs the Lucent Technologies' Wildwire DSP 1690 chipset, which incorporates Aware's DSL-Lite technology and software. "Compaq's commitment to solving the bandwidth bottleneck marks the beginning of a new era in PC modems, where true high-speed Internet access is a consumer reality. This event, along with the recent ITU standardization success and rollout announcements by phone companies, provide unprecedented momentum for the ADSL industry "said Michael A. Tzannes, president and chief executive officer of Aware. "We are pleased that our work with Lucent and Compaq is producing a solution that will enable the consumer DSL market." another related (?) story: Integrated Telecom Express Demonstrates World's First Host-Based G.lite ADSL Solution and Controllerless Full-Rate ADSL Chipset at Comdex LAS VEGAS, COMDEX, Nov. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Integrated Telecom Express, Inc. (ITeX) is demonstrating its complete line of ADSL chipsets in the Las Vegas Convention Center booth L5060 at Comdex Fall '98, November 16-20, 1998. The live product demonstrations include the company's unique Scalable ADSL Modem (SAM), the first host-based ADSL chipset optimized for PCs, and Apollo 2, a controllerless ADSL PCI chipset. The SAM chipset, which was announced in August, provides consumers an affordable, easy to use, always on, high-speed connection for Internet and other broadband applications. Scheduled for mass production in first quarter, 1999, SAM leverages the host PC's CPU power to achieve a scalable data rate of up to 1.5Mbps downstream and 512kbps upstream transmission over regular copper wire as specified in recently approved ITU-T G.lite standard. As part of the company's commitment to bring ADSL to the mass market, ITeX is working closely with Intel Corporation in product development. During Comdex, ITeX will demonstrate the SAM ADSL chipset working with Intel's Pentiuma II processor. ITeX is also developing the SAM ADSL chipset to benefit from features of Intel's future processors. In addition, ITeX is showing its Apollo 2, a T1.413 Issue 2 and G.lite ADSL chipset designed for internal ADSL PCI modem cards. By eliminating the need for a dedicated microcontroller, ITeX's Apollo 2 chipset is able to offer consumers a low-cost, high performance ADSL solution. The product demonstration at Comdex illustrates interconnectivity between ITeX's Apollo 2 chipset and Alcatel's DSLAM as well as the ATM network behind it. The completion of the end-to-end interoperability testing between ITeX's Apollo 2 product and Alcatel's ADSL equipment has been scheduled in January, 1999. Alcatel's ADSL equipment is deployed today by major operators around the world, including Singapore Telecom, Pacific Bell, Southwestern Bell, Ameritech, BellSouth, Telia, British Telecom, Bell Canada and Guangdong PTA along others.