ADSL: Motorola, Committed to Interoperability, Joins ADSL Consortium - ADSL Consortium on Interoperability - Company Business and Marketing - Industry Trend or Event

Cambridge Telcom Report, May 31, 1999

With interoperability remaining a critical factor for enabling mass market deployment of ADSL, Motorola has announced that it will join the ADSL Consortium on Interoperability.

Under the leadership of the University of New Hampshire's InterOperability Lab (UNH-IOL), the ADSL Consortium has been established to accelerate the industry's efforts to bring multi-vendor interoperable solutions to the marketplace.

"Motorola's involvement with the ADSL Consortium reinforces the necessity of interoperability as a key factor to ADSL's future success," said Scott Valcourt, ADSL Consortium Manager. "The ADSL Consortium encourages all participants in the ADSL market to take advantage of this opportunity that benefits individual vendors as well as the ADSL industry as a whole."

Consortium members can utilize the UNH-IOL as a neutral testing site to verify their equipment's compatibility before their products are publicly introduced, allowing the UNH-IOL to serve as an extension of a member's own in-house private laboratory.

Motorola Solutions Motorola offers a comprehensive selection of standards-compliant ADSL products for central office and remote applications. The flexibility of the CopperGold solutions will enable customers to easily adapt to and meet industry interoperability needs and provide end users with high quality solutions with superior performance.

Central Office/Router Applications Motorola's standard compliant ADSL solutions which include such features as trellis coding and echo cancellation enable operators to expand their coverage with higher performance and longer reach. The central office and router solutions are based on a highly integrated ADSL transceiver and are designed to support exceptional density, enabling fast time to market via development tools and world class applications support.

Remote Applications Motorola's CopperGold V.90/DSL hybrid modem is a low cost, highly integrated solution which offers standards-complaint, analog/digital connectivity. These DSL technologies are supported by an extensive IP portfolio backed by the communications expertise of Motorola.

"The efforts of the ADSL Consortium will accelerate the deployment of wide spread, low-cost megabit access to the Internet and other multimedia applications to the mass market," said Ken Cavanaugh, ADSL Product Line Manager for Motorola Semiconductor Products Sector.

"Motorola has been on the forefront of innovation in the ADSL industry, and joining the ADSL Consortium further underscores our dedication to delivering interoperable systems to the marketplace."

For more information on the CopperGold ADSL solutions, visit Motorola's web site at motorola.com/adsl. For more information on the ADSL Consortium, visit the web site at www.iol.unh.edu/consortiums/index.html.> As the world's No. 1 producer of embedded processors, Motorola's Semiconductor Products Sector offers multiple DigitalDNA solutions which enable its customers to create new business opportunities in the consumer, networking and computing, transportation, and wireless communications markets. Motorola's worldwide semiconductor sales were $7.3 billion (USD) in l998. FMI: http://www.motorola.com/sps