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To: Paul Lee who wrote (5607)	2/10/1999 2:07:00 PM
From: Scrapps	Respond to of 9236

They have the same ad agency as AWRE? hum...their symbol is good...Did I miss anything? Now what do you think of this: AG Communication Systems Teams Up With Cayman Systems to Provide Economical ADSL Solution to New Mexico Service Provider PHOENIX, Feb. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- AG Communication Systems, a subsidiary of Lucent Technologies, announced today that it has teamed up with Cayman Systems to provide LEACO Rural Telephone Cooperative, Inc., of Lovington, N.M., with an economical way to provide high-speed ADSL (asymmetric digital subscriber line) services to hundreds of users within a local area network (LAN). LEACO has been using AG Communication Systems' ATIUM® GateWay ADSL platform since July 1997 to offer high-speed data services and Internet access to customers in southeastern New Mexico. LEACO upgraded its system last fall by installing Cayman's 2E 500 Ethernet-to-Ethernet routers with AG Communication Systems' ATIUM GateWay platform. ''The Cayman router allows two or more users to simply and easily share an ADSL connection,'' said Mark Emery, vice president and general manager of AG Communication Systems' New Ventures Group. ''The Cayman router looks like a single PC, so the service provider is able to conserve IP addresses.'' The Cayman router supports two Ethernet ports in one package. One Ethernet port supports PCs on the LAN, the other Ethernet port plugs directly into a single ATIUM GateWay ADSL modem. ''Combining the Cayman routers with the AG Communication Systems' ATIUM GateWay platform saves us a great deal, since we need fewer IP addresses to serve our school and business customers,'' said Marian Anderson, LEACO manager. ''The plug-and-play Cayman routers are easy to install and are less than half the cost of competing products.'' The ATIUM GateWay system provides users with Internet connections at rates up to 2.5 Mbps downstream and 1.0 Mbps upstream using ADSL technology. These rates are 50 to 100 times faster than traditional analog modems and up to 20 times faster than ISDN services. In addition, a low-pass filter provides a splitterless solution by eliminating the need for a separate device -- an external POTS (plain old telephone service) splitter -- that separates the voice telephone service and ADSL traffic. LEACO Rural Telephone Cooperative, Inc., has provided telecommunications services to its customers in southeastern New Mexico for more than 40 years. LEACO's low-density service area spans 150 miles north-to-south and 70 miles east-to-west. LEACO serves approximately 10,000 customers with cellular lines and 2,600 customers with traditional land lines. Additional information is available on the company's web site at leaco.net. Cayman Systems is a leading customer premises equipment manufacturer for service providers that sell to home and small-office markets. Cayman's Zero- Configuration(TM) routers and turnkey support programs enable cable companies, CLECs, ISPs, ILECs, and RBOCs to easily deliver Ethernet-to-Internet DSL and broadband solutions for their small office customers. Founded in 1987, Cayman Systems is a privately held company based in Stoneham, Mass. Additional information is available on Cayman's web site at cayman.com. AG Communication Systems, a subsidiary of Lucent Technologies, is a leading developer and manufacturer of advanced communication products and services, including switching, access, video, wireless and intelligent network products. AG Communication Systems' GTD-5® digital switching systems serve more than 17 million business, government, and residential subscribers. Annual revenues for the fiscal year ended September 1998 were approximately $450 million. Additional information is available on the company's web site at agcs.com. ATIUM is a registered trademark of AG Communication Systems. 2E 500, Zero-Configuration and the Cayman Systems logo are trademarks of Cayman Systems, Inc. GTD-5 is a registered trademark used under license from GTE Corporation. All other trademarks, brand and product names are the property of their respective holders.

To: Paul Lee who wrote (5607)	2/11/1999 1:31:00 AM
From: Scrapps	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9236

Intel comments on broadband and G.Lite....... Intel Spotlights Pentium III By Marcel Michelson CANNES, France (Reuters) - The French seaside resort of Cannes is a frequent setting for previews and Wednesday a tiny microprocessor was the star here as giant Intel Corp (Nasdaq:INTC - news) turned the spotlight onto its Pentium III processor. Rob Eckelmann, managing director Europe, Middle East and Africa at Intel, told Reuters in an interview that the Pentium III, to be officially launched on Feb. 17, would be priced in the same range as the current Pentium II. ''The Pentium III will be placed at the same price points as the Pentium II when it hits the market by the end of the year,'' he said in Cannes at the Milia multimedia trade fair. He declined to be more specific. A Pentium II processor, the most-sold microprocessor in personal computers at the moment, sells for $150 to $400 per unit, depending on specifications. ''The Pentium III will allow us to continue what is the miracle of this industry -- every year and a half we can double the performance that the customer gets for a given price point,'' Eckelmann said. ''This (product) will be the majority of what we make in the fourth quarter this year,'' he added. The Pentium III will be faster than its predecessor, not only by the clock -- going from 450 to 500 Mhz at the launch to a gigahertz by the second half of 2000 -- but also in Web speed. Eckelmann said Pentium III would improve the performance of Web sites by up to 10 times due to an instruction set called SIMD - Single Instruction Multiple Data. Intel has worked with Web agencies, portal providers, sites and software makers to have the main Web sites ready for the new Intel technology. In Cannes, some 30 applications were on display, ranging from an interactive three-dimensional site for product designers to an educational tool for biology lessons showing, for instance, how blood flows through the body. While some observers say the main stumbling block to growth of Internet usage is the transfer rate of data -- called bandwidth -- and that processors are already quick enough, Eckelmann disagreed. ''You need as much bandwidth as you can get, and also as much processing power as you can get,'' he said. ''Pentium III was developed with the Internet in mind. We are probably never going to get all the bandwidth we would like, so we are compensating for that with the power of the processor. We are getting two to 10 times the frame rate for video on a given application and given bandwidth,'' he said. ''If you have more bandwidth, you can take it a step further, of course,'' Eckelmann added. Intel expects that the bandwidth issue will get an enormous boost this year. While current modems, mainly using phone lines, are defined as narrowband with speeds of 28 to 56 kilobits per second, broadband will be 1,000 times faster with speeds of 1.5 to 38 megabits per second. This is possible through satellite-based services such as Digital Video Broadcast, cable television modems or enhanced telephony modem technologies such as ADSL or G.Lite. Once these technologies are commonplace, the World Wide Web will no longer be the World Wide Wait and users can see their favorite actors real-time at the Cannes film festival on their computer with the quality of good television. dailynews.yahoo.com

To: Paul Lee who wrote (5607)	2/13/1999 2:20:00 AM
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Datapath Systems, Inc. to Present Technical Advancements in Chip Design for the Digital Storage and ADSL Industries at ISSCC '99 Papers Represent Latest State-of-the-Art Technology For Read/Write Channel ICs and Analog Front Ends for ADSL Modems LOS GATOS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 12, 1999-- DataPath Systems, Inc., a leader in the design and development of complex, mixed-signal technology, will present three papers representing some of the latest advancements in the development of Trellis-coded EPRML read/write channel ICs and Analog Front Ends for the ADSL industry at the IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference being held in San Francisco, Feb. 15-17, 1999. The first of the two papers on the read/write channel IC is A Trellis-Coded E(2)PRML Digital Read/Write Channel IC. The TC-E(2)PRML read/write channel IC is capable of operating up to 400Mb/s and combines a rate of 8/9 trellis code with higher-order partial response target called E(2)PR4. The signal to noise ratio improvement of the TC-E(2)PRML system over the rate 16/17 EPRML and the 8/9 PRML system is 1.5 dB and 3 dB at normalized user density of 2.5. These numbers progressively increase to 2 dB and 6 dB as the user density increases to 3. In comparison to the major competitors, this IC demonstrates the highest level of performance for the lowest power dissipation in the industry. The second paper, A 3V 10-100 MHz Continuous-Time Seventh-Order 0.05(Degree) Equiripple Linear-Phase Filter, demonstrates state-of-the-art developments for BiCMOS filter design. DataPath's latest advancement in this area increases the frequency to 100 MHz, the fastest in the industry, while maintaining a low power consumption. Both papers will be given during the disk drive signal processing session on Monday, Feb. 15 beginning at 1:30 p.m. The third paper, A CMOS Analog Front End IC for DMT ADSL, discusses DataPath's highly integrated CMOS AFE, compliant with both the full ADSL T1E1.413 DMT standard and the emerging G.lite standard. The AFE achieves 14bit linearity in both RX and TX paths and input-referred noise better than -160dBm/Hz, from a single 5.0V supply. These noise and linearity specifications are necessary for an ADSL modem to operate at 1.5Mb/s on the longest lines and reach above 90% of installed copper connections. This paper will be given during the xDSL session on Tuesday, Feb. 16, beginning at 1:30 p.m. Company Overview DataPath Systems, Inc. is a privately-held company founded in 1994 by a team of highly skilled engineers with backgrounds in signal processing for digital storage and communications. The company's core competency is the design, development, and manufacture of complex mixed analog/digital chips for signal processing and communications applications. DataPath's staff is comprised of senior analog designers, systems architects, digital designers, test engineers, software engineers, and other support staff, headquartered in Los Gatos, Calif. For more information on DataPath, please visit their Web site at www.datapathsystems.com. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contact: Breakthru Communications for DataPath Systems Sue Stone, 408/777-9364 biz.yahoo.com