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To: Jon K. who wrote (4953)	11/23/1998 2:48:00 PM
From: Scrapps	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9236

Jon, what they are saying is simply they provide both...where other companies provide one or the other. That covers your question #1. #2. True. #3. The difference is G.Lite is splitterless. ADSL requires a voice/data splitter...thus taking more effort and expertise to install,however, it allows for higher speed connections. Aware pioneered the development of a variant of ADSL known as DSL-Lite or G.lite. DSL-Lite technology delivers data transmission speeds of up to 1.5 Mbps downstream and up to 512 kbps upstream at distances of up to 24,000 feet. The significance of Aware's splitterless DSL-Lite technology, which is DMT based, is that it has been designed for easy, low-cost deployment and removes the need for a voice-data splitter at every user site. The elimination of the voice-data splitter solves a major deployment bottleneck, the telephone company truck-roll, thereby helping to speed the deployment of DSL services. DSL-Lite is the technology that will enable an integrated PC modem solution for high-speed Internet access over existing phone lines.

To: Jon K. who wrote (4953)	11/23/1998 3:40:00 PM
From: Scrapps	Respond to of 9236

Jon, a bit of follow up information.... Why DMT? Discrete MultiTone modulation is the technology used in T1.413 for full rate ADSL. It has proven over and over again that it is extremely robust in the local loop environment. By using Aware's DMT technology in the DSL lite application interoperability with full rate is easily achievable. ----------------------------------------- What is meant by splitterless? The original ADSL standard, T1.413 incorporates a POTS Splitter in both the remote terminal and the central office. The splitter is designed to separate the voice band from the DSL spectrum. The idea is to protect both signals from interfering with one another. The issue of where the POTS Splitter belongs in both locations has been widely debated and is yet satisfactorily resolved. In most cases the Splitter is a separate physical device that requires a skilled technician to install. DSL-Lite eliminates the need for a POTS Splitter, hence the term splitterless. It is designed to be implemented on a modem chipset with a PC. PCs that today provide 32Kbps and maybe 56Kbps will be capable of hundreds of kilobits using DSL Lite. At a home a PC user simply plugs the DSL Lite Modem into the phone jack. This simplification will enable rapid mass deployment of DSL technology. The removal of the splitter removes the requirement of a "truck roll" by the service provider to install the device. This greatly facilitates mass deployment. aware.com