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Eight Times as Many Consumers Can
Access High Speed Internet Services Using
Lucent Technologies' New Chip Set
Consumers Can Receive Such Services with No Disruption to
Telephone
Service
ALLENTOWN, Pa., April 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Lucent
Technologies' (NYSE: LU - news)
Microelectronics Group, the world leader in communications
semiconductors, today announced
chips for telephone service providers that give them the ability to
simultaneously provide high
speed Internet and voice services to eight times as many consumers
as is possible with systems
typically deployed today. Lucent's chips go into telephone
company central office equipment
called digital line cards (approximately 8-1/2 by 11 inches in
size).
''The flexibility inherent in Lucent's central office solution
provides both traditional and
non-traditional service providers with a cost-effective end-to-end
solution for immediate
deployment,'' said Shannon Pleasant, a senior analyst with Cahners
In-Stat Group, a market
research firm based in Scottsdale, Arizona. ''Lucent's focus on
enabling high-density solutions
based on standardized Asymmetrical Digital Subscriber Line
(ADSL) 'Lite' addresses what is
expected to be the highest growth opportunity for the mass market.''
Lucent's chips, parts of the company's WildWire(TM) offering, are
designed to deliver
compatible ADSL ''Lite'' services at up to 1.5 megabits per second
-- 25 times faster than
today's fastest analog modems. Using Lucent's chips and a single
standard telephone line,
consumers will also be able to more easily and quickly receive
these high speed Internet
services with no disruption or quality reduction to their telephone
voice services.
Using the Lucent chips, phone companies can deliver the combined
services using one digital
line card. Enabling such voice and data capabilities typically
requires the use of an additional
piece of central office equipment, which increases network
equipment costs and size.
Lucent, which pioneered ADSL technology through its Bell Labs
research and development arm,
is using its digital signal processor (DSP) and analog line card
communications technologies,
along with its system-on-a-chip, software, and networking
expertise, to produce this
comprehensive solution.
This new solution is compliant with G.992.2 (G.Lite), the pending
International
Telecommunications Union (ITU) standard for 1.5 mbps ADSL
''Lite'' services expected to be
ratified in June 1999. Because the DSP chip is software
programmable, it can be easily
upgraded to comply with future enhancements of G.992.2. Lucent
also plans to make the chip set
compatible with all PC and telephone central office equipment that
complies with the G.992.2
standard.
''Lucent now has the first end-to-end G.992.2 DSL 'Lite' voice and
data solution,'' said Carlos
Garcia, general manager with Lucent's Microelectronics Group.
''Lucent is extending its
WildWire DSL technology from one end of the communications
network -- the PC -- all the way
to the other end -- the central office switch. The result is a major
opportunity for consumers to
access the Internet at much higher speeds through more
interoperable DSL services.''
Lucent's latest WildWire solution is targeted for use within various
types of telephone equipment
deployed today, including integrated ADSL and voice central
office gear, Digital Subscriber
Line Access Multiplexers (DSLAMs), as well as digital loop
carriers.
Lucent is building all of the digital and analog communications
components, as well as
developing in-house all of the associated software, for enabling
widespread deployment of
ADSL ''Lite'' services. By providing this one-stop shop hardware
and software offering, Lucent
can quickly and easily optimize the entire system, as well as
provide faster and improved
customer support.
ADSL ''Lite'' technology uses regular phone lines that extend from
homes all the way to the
telephone company's central office. The technology does not
require costly and time-consuming
installation of voice/data splitters at consumers' homes.
According to Cahners In-Stat Group, ADSL ''Lite'' is expected to
represent more than 40 percent
of the North American xDSL market in the year 2000, and ADSL
''Lite'' subscribers in North
America will exceed half a million by that year.
Lucent's WildWire central office solution is expected to be
available in sample quantities this
quarter and in production quantities in this year's fourth quarter.
The chip set solution is priced at
$65 per line in quantities of 10,000.
For more product information, customers may call the
Microelectronics Group Customer
Response Center, 1-800-372-2447, Dept. N02 (in Canada,
1-800-553-2448, Dept. N02; fax
number 1-610-712-4106 (especially for callers outside of North
America) or write to Lucent
Technologies, Room 30L-15L-BA, 555 Union Boulevard,
Allentown, Pa. 18103.
Lucent's Microelectronics Group designs and manufactures
integrated circuits and optoelectronic
components for the computer and communications industries. More
information about Lucent's
WildWire technology can be found at
lucent.com.
Lucent Technologies designs, builds and delivers a wide range of
public and private networks,
communications systems and software, data networking systems,
business telephone systems and
microelectronic components. Bell Labs is the research and
development arm for the company.
For more information on Lucent Technologies, headquartered in
Murray Hill, N.J., visit its web
site at lucent.com .
SOURCE: Lucent Technologies
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