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Company Press Release
Teltrend Inc. to Develop Interoperable HDSL2 Products
ST CHARLES, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 9, 1999--Teltrend Inc. (NASDAQ: TLTN - news) today announced that it is now developing ANSI T1E1.4 compliant HDSL2 products which will be interoperable with previously announced HDSL2 products from PairGain Technologies (NASDAQ: PAIR - news), ADC Telecommunications (NASDAQ: ADCT - news), and other suppliers. To help assure the interoperability, Teltrend has selected Level One Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: LEVL - news) as its chip supplier for HDSL2 products. Both PairGain and ADC have previously announced their use of the HDSL2 chip-set from Level One. Level One's chip-set implements the standard HDSL2 line coding called OPTIS (Overlapped Pulse-amplitude-modulation Transmission with Interlocking Spectra) which was selected by the ANSI T1E1.4 standards committee in January 1998.
''Level One has played a major role to bring vendors together and facilitate the end-to-end HDSL2 interoperability specifications as well as providing product-to-product interoperability testing in their lab. We are pleased to join the Level One HDSL2 interoperability consortium'', said Jack Parker, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Teltrend's Hi-Cap Product Business Unit. ''This is a major step forward for the telecommunications industry and represents a win-win scenario for the telecommunications equipment suppliers, HDSL2 silicon suppliers, telephone operating companies, and the end users of DS1 services. This end-to-end product compatibility will now open the door for major advances in the area of DS1 services deployment.''
''The addition of Teltrend to the growing list of industry leaders supporting HDSL2 interoperability further re-enforces HDSL2's position as a robust, spectrally compatible DSL designed specifically for business oriented voice and data applications,'' said Dan Cordingley, Director of DSL Products at silicon provider Level One Communications. ''Teltrend's market position and support of HDSL2 interoperability will directly benefit ILEC and CLEC service providers by enabling cost effective, high quality service over a single copper pair.''
Bruce Kimble, Vice President of PairGain Technologies' T1 Access Business adds, ''PairGain is committed to open, competitive product innovations for T1 Access. HDSL2 is a major opportunity to offer our customers the benefits of interoperability. We are pleased to work with Level One and Teltrend to increase the number of vendors that have achieved interoperability for their T1E1.4 compliant HDSL2 products.''
''Interoperable HDSL2 products will play an integral role in future developments in our low-cost Soneplex® T1 service delivery platform,'' said John Griffin, Vice President and General Manager for ADC's Loop Transport Division. ''We have seen success from initial Soneplex® HDSL2 shipments, validating the new HDSL2 technology and the forthcoming interoperable HDSL2 standard.''
Teltrend Inc., established in 1979 with over 500 employees worldwide, is headquartered in suburban Chicago. Teltrend designs, manufactures and markets a broad range of telecommunications and data communications products used by businesses and telephone companies to provide voice and data services. Teltrend's unique local telephone loop solutions -- developed for T1, HDSL, Fiber Optic, ISDN, DDS, and DLC applications -- allow telephone companies to provide new and better services to their customers without the need for costly infrastructure replacement. The Company's Network iQ(TM) family of internetworking router/PBX products are designed to provide intelligent high performance routing solutions for remote access and interoffice communications across wide area networks or the Internet. The Company's customers range from Regional Bell Operating Companies, GTE, Sprint, and other U.S. and International telephone companies, to SOHO and medium-sized business. Teltrend's World Wide Web address is: teltrend.com.
ADC Telecommunications, Inc. (Nasdaq: ADCT - news) is a leading global supplier of voice, video and data systems and solutions for telephone, cable television, Internet, broadcast, wireless and private communications networks. ADC's systems and solutions enable local access and high-speed transmission of communications services from service providers to consumers and businesses over fiber-optic, copper, coaxial and wireless media. Headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, ADC has approximately 8,900 employees around the world and annual sales of $1.5 billion. For additional information, visit our Web site at www.adc.com.
Level One Communications (NASDAQ: LEVL - news) provides ''Silicon Connectivity Solutions'' for high-speed digital signal telecom and networking applications. These components are critical connecting links in today's telecommunication and data communication (LAN/WAN) networks and are the key building blocks for the Intranets and Internets of the future. Level One combines its strengths in analog and digital circuit design, with its communications systems expertise, to produce mixed-signal solutions with increased functionality and greater reliability, resulting in lower total systems cost. Level One Communications, Inc. is registered to ISO 9001 by Underwriters Laboratories, Inc. under accreditation by Raad voor Accreditiatie (RVA), the Dutch Council for Accreditation, and by ANSI-RAB. This accomplishment illustrates the company's commitment to world-class standards and dedication to providing the highest quality products. Company headquarters are located at 9750 Goethe Road, Sacramento, CA 95827. For information on the company and its products, visit its site on the World Wide Web at level1.com.
PairGain Technologies, Inc., is a world leader in the design, manufacture and marketing of DSL (Digital Subscriber Line) networking systems. Service providers and private network operators worldwide use PairGain's products to deploy DSL-based services such as high-speed Internet, remote LAN access and enterprise LAN extension. For more than 10 years, PairGain has been recognized as the technological leader and industry innovator of telecommunications equipment. The company offers the widest range of HDSL, ADSL and SDSL-based systems available. Its product lines include HiGain T1/E1 access systems, PG-Flex® and PG-Plus® small subscriber carrier systems, Avidia® and Megabit Modem® campus systems and megabit access products. Well over 1,000,000 PairGain DSL nodes are installed in over 70 countries. www.pairgain.com.
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