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To: Jack Colton who wrote (41107)	5/15/1999 3:21:00 PM
From: Dolfan	Respond to of 90042

Jack one of my tutorials at Interop was XDSL, ISDN, and Remote access. The instructor was Dory Leifman of Public Port. Anyway it was a great class. We also talked about the new Home PNA Network that uses your Home Phone lines to do 10 Mbps Ethernet and planned 100 Mbps in the future. Pretty neat. Ironically a engineer who used to work for 3COM has started Epigram the Home Networking Company that makes the iLine10 DSP chipsets that Manufacturers and partners such as 3COM, Lucent, Microsoft and Panasonic will use. This sounds huge and I am going to do some research to see if they are public or will be doing any IPO. Mark

To: Jack Colton who wrote (41107)	5/15/1999 3:29:00 PM
From: Dolfan	Respond to of 90042

I guess this answers my question! So I guess they are merging with Broadcom. Sorry for the long post! Epigram Named Among UPSIDE Magazine's 1999 Hot 100 Private Companies Coveted UPSIDE Hot 100 Award recognizes innovation, leadership and performance SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 12, 1999--Epigram, Inc. today announced it has been selected to receive the 1999 Hot 100 Award from UPSIDE magazine. This annual award recognizes excellence and innovation among the hottest technology industry companies. ''We are very pleased with the recognition UPSIDE has bestowed on our world class team with this award,'' said Dr. Edward H. Frank, Executive Vice President and an Epigram founder. ''Home phoneline technology will give millions of people and billions of devices high-speed 10 Mbps shared Internet access and network functionality over the existing 20 million miles of household and small business copper phone lines.'' ''Selecting this year's UPSIDE Hot 100 was particularly challenging for our team of editors and advisers, given the fierce market conditions led by a flood of mergers, acquisitions and IPOs that disqualified many of our early selections,'' said David Bunnell, CEO of Upside Media and editor of UPSIDE magazine. ''We spent many months evaluating each company's achievements before selecting the 100 to receive this industry award. UPSIDE felt that Epigram has what it takes to be considered among the 'hottest' private companies around, and we look forward to watching its future performance.'' A team of UPSIDE editors, venture capitalists, financial analysts, market researchers and other industry luminaries who evaluated more than 800 nominations selected the 1999 UPSIDE Hot 100. The UPSIDE Hot 100 Award is judged on a company's technological achievements, customer acceptance of products or services, financial performance, industry partnerships, financial backing, management savvy and marketing. Epigram has announced customer partnership agreements with 3Com, Nortel's subsidiary Netgear, Texas Instruments, consumer electronics giant Panasonic and Lucent. Recently, Epigram agreed to merge with Broadcom (NASDAQ: BRCM - news) and become Broadcom's home networking division based in Silicon Valley. Epigram has raised funding from Mohr, Davidow Ventures, Benchmark Capital, Advanced Technology Ventures, Information Technology Ventures, 3Com, Panasonic Digital Concepts Center and others. Epigram's iLine10(TM) chips will begin shipping to partners during the second half of 1999 coincident with partner's products becoming available. Epigram has also begun publicly demonstrating fully functional iLine10 chipsets, with Cisco Systems at the Consumer Electronics Show in January 1999 and with Microsoft at WinHEC '99. In November, Epigram took top honors at Comdex '98 for ''Best New Technology'' from more than 1,000 companies introducing products. About Epigram PC, consumer electronics and data communications vendors are lining up their devices to actively participate in the Internet revolution. Founded in 1996 by Jack Holloway and Dr. Ed Frank, Epigram supplies silicon chipsets that are easily embedded within a PC, modem, cable modem, set-top box, television or any other device with a need for Internet connectivity. The company's first products, iLine10 chipsets, use the existing phoneline to uniquely create a high-speed network within any home or small office. The company's InsideLineTM local area networking technology gives consumers and small business owners a concurrent digital dial tone with their telephone service. Additional Epigram information is available at www.epigram.com.