Netopia DSL Equipment Interoperates With Lucent's New DSL Access Concentrator; Partnership Offers Expanded DSL Capabilities for Service Providers - Product Announcement

Cambridge Telcom Report, Sept 20, 1999

Netopia, Inc., a market leader in providing Internet and electronic commerce infrastructure to small and medium-sized businesses, has announced that it has joined Lucent Technologies' Wired for DSL partners program.

As a Wired for DSL partner, Netopia's R7100 SDSL Router and D7100 SDSL DSU have been certified for interoperability with Lucent's new Stinger Digital Subscriber Line Access Concentrator (DSLAM), ensuring compatibility between the products for service providers deploying Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) services.

"Netopia's DSL CPE products incorporate many critical features that businesses need today," said Ashok Dhawan, general manger, high speed access products, InterNetworking Systems, Lucent Technologies. "We're pleased that carriers who deploy the Lucent Stinger will be able to take advantage of Netopia's broad and feature-rich DSL product line."

Netopia's DSL Internet equipment includes ease of use, expandable and upgradeable modular architecture, a built-in firewall, local and remote SNMP based management, VPN (Virtual Private Networking) and MultiNAT (Multiple Network Address Translation).

In addition, the certification of the Netopia D7100 SDSL DSU by Lucent means that service providers who deploy the Lucent Stinger will be able to offer their customers easy migration from leased lines to DSL, while maintaining their existing routing infrastructure.

"Interoperability with Stinger allows us to jointly offer service providers unprecedented levels of DSL capabilities," said Didier Cop, vice president of marketing, Netopia Internet Equipment Division.

With its bandwidth management and priority policing capabilities, the Stinger DSLAM will enable service providers to deliver differentiated classes of service to their customers. Stinger also integrates other functions such as loop qualification and service selection to provide customers cost savings in equipment, management and training.

Stinger supports for up to 672 ports per chassis and 2016 ports per rack.

Lucent Technologies, headquartered in Murray Hill, N.J., USA, designs, builds and delivers a wide range of public and private networks, communications systems and software, data networking systems, business telephone systems and microelectronics components.

Bell Labs is the research and development arm for the company. For more information about Lucent Technologies, visit its Web site at http://www.lucent.com.

Netopia, Inc. develops, markets and supports Internet and electronic commerce infrastructure for small and medium size businesses. Netopia's DSL equipment and Web platforms enable businesses to easily and cost-effectively connect to the Internet, establish and enhance their Internet presence, and conduct business and electronic commerce on the Web.

With the Netopia Web site platform, the company has established Web site services with Netscape Netcenter, Intuit, France Telecom, Freeserve and Concentric Network. With its Netopia Internet Router family, the company has established strategic relationships with leading CLECs including NorthPoint Communications, Rhythms NetConnections and Jato Communications; and with hundreds of ISPs including France Telecom, Telecom Italia, Bell Atlantic, PSINet, Verio, UUNet, Earthlink and Concentric Network.

Headquartered in Alameda, Netopia's common stock is traded on The Nasdaq stock system under the symbol "NTPA." Further information about the company can be obtained via phone 510/814-5100, fax 510/814-5021 or on the web at www.netopia.com.