ADSL: Consumer Delivery of ADSL Solutions Accelerates As Motorola and Alcatel Announce Interoperability - Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line services - Company Business and Marketing

Cambridge Telcom Report, June 21, 1999

Delivery of Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) services to the end-user market is accelerating with interoperability recently demonstrated between digital communication products from Motorola Semiconductor Products Sector and Alcatel Microelectronics. Motorola's CopperGold(TM) Lite ADSL remote solution and Alcatel's Dynamite chip set were proven to be interoperable as part of the ADSL Consortium testing conducted at the University of New Hampshire.

Interoperability serves as a major catalyst for the ADSL industry and enables manufacturers to provide plug and play capability to end users for consumer deployment. Achieving interoperability among major ADSL manufacturers demonstrates the industry's commitment to making ADSL a widely available solution for broadband access.

"Without interoperability, you don't have a product in this market," said Matt Nelson, ADSL Lite product line manager for Motorola. "Having interoperability with existing Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexers (DSLAMs) builds momentum for ADSL and accelerates adoption in the marketplace."

Motorola has begun sampling of the CopperGold Lite chip set, and expects to ramp to production levels in Q3 1999. For more information, contact your local Motorola sales office or distributor or visit our web site at www.motorola.com/adsl.> "We have worked hard to support our customers and our own hardware through the interoperability testing process for G.lite," said Dave Long, Strategic Marketing Manager, Alcatel Microelectronics. "Alcatel will continue to support interoperability in order to guarantee the standards compliance that is vital to further the growth of this market."

As the world's #1 producer of embedded processors, Motorola Semiconductor Product Sector offers multiple DigitalDNA(TM) solutions which enable its customers in the consumer, networking and computing, transportation, and wireless communications markets, to create new business opportunities. Motorola's worldwide semiconductor sales were $7.3 billion (USD) in 1998. FMI: http://www.motorola.com/sps

Motorola is a global leader in providing integrated communications solutions and embedded electronic solutions. Sales in 1998 were $29.4 (USD) billion. FMI: http://www.motorola.com

Technical Data Available: www.motorola.com/adsl