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To: Cragganmore who wrote (25768)	12/3/1998 6:24:00 AM
From: nord	Respond to of 45548

Anyone What is the relationship between LU/T and COMS SANTA CLARA, Calif., Dec. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Lucent Technologies Microelectronics Group's digital signal processor (DSP) provides the wireless communications capabilities for 3Com's new Palm VII connected organizer introduced here today at 3Com's Palm Computing Platform Worldwide Developer Conference. 3Com's Palm VII organizer will provide fast, secure and easy out-of-the-box access to personal, business and Internet information. The product will enable users to quickly and easily obtain important information on the Internet remotely via a wireless connection. The Palm VII organizer is expected to be available in 1999. Lucent's POMP(TM)-15 ("Peace of Mind Processor") chip, introduced in 1996, is one of the world's first DSPs to be used in a handheld organizer to provide wireless capabilities. Lucent's chip, which enables the Palm VII organizer to communicate with the Mobitex-based BellSouth Intelligent Wireless Network(SM), can perform in numerous other wireless systems as well. Lucent's POMP-15 chip executes the functions typically requiring three chips, thereby lowering the DSP and codec circuit board space consumption. This chip performs DSP functions such as channel coding, as well as digital-to-analog and analog-to-digital signal conversions. The low-power-consuming POMP-15, which operates on 40 microamps at 3 volts in full sleep mode, enables weeks of battery life on the Palm VII organizer. 3Com reduced its product development time and costs using Lucent's highly-integrated development tools and its FlashDSP(R) technology, which is offered along with the POMP-15. FlashDSP cuts reprogramming time of the POMP-15 from weeks to minutes. "No other DSP on the market offers as full a package of benefits for our needs as Lucent's POMP-15," said Mark Bercow, vice president, strategic alliances and platform development for 3Com. "Low chip count, rapid time-to-market and longer battery life were absolutely critical to us, and the POMP-15 excels at all of those." "This exciting relationship with 3Com, the undisputed electronic organizer market leader, was a logical new market for us to enter as we continue to pursue wireless semiconductor business opportunities with the industry's leaders," said Aaron Fisher, vice president of the wireless business unit within Lucent's Microelectronics Group. Lucent Technologies Inc. designs, builds, and delivers a wide range of public and private networks, communications systems and software, data networking systems, business telephone systems and microelectronics components. Bell Labs is the research and development arm for the company. For more information on Lucent Technologies, headquartered in Murray Hill, N.J., USA, visit its web site at lucent.com. Lucent's Microelectronics Group designs and manufactures integrated circuits and optoelectronic components for the computer and communications industries. More information about the POMP-15 can be obtained by going to the following web site: lucent.com; click on search; type in POMP; and hit enter. Additional information about the Microelectronics Group is available from its web site at lucent.com. Palm Computing and 3Com are registered trademarks and Palm VII is a trademark of 3Com Corporation. SOURCE Lucent Technologies Microelectronic's Group CO: Lucent Technologies Inc.; 3Com Corporation ST: California IN: CPR TLS MLM SU: PDT 12/02/98 13:38 EST prnewswire.com BASKING RIDGE, N.J., Dec 1 (Reuters) - AT&T Corp. said Tuesday it had signed a three-year, $80 million contract to upgrade 3Com Corp.'s voice, video and data networks. AT&T, the No. 1 U.S. long distance telephone company, said the contract calls for it to convert 3Com's backbone telecommunications network to an asynchronous transfer mode, or ATM, backbone. The conversion will expand the network's bandwidth capacity, which will allow it to handle voice, video and data services on a single network. "We will benefit from increased cost savings and the ability to provide numerous video applications to our sites around the globe," 3Com chief information officer Thomas Thomas said. 3Com, among the world's largest makers of computer networking products, said it expects the conversion will result in "multimillion-dollar cost savings." 12:05 12-01-98 Regards Norden