Itex Shipped Over 1 Million Adsl Chipsets - Company Financial Information

EDP Weekly's IT Monitor, Sept 18, 2000

Integrated Telecom Express, Inc.("ITeX") (NASDAQ: ITXI), a provider of ADSL integrated circuits and software has announced that the Company has shipped over 1 million units of its Apollo family of full-rate ADSL modem chipsets into the CPE (Customer Premises Equipment) and CO (Central Office) markets.

The Apollo family of ADSL products has been supplied to key customers including Alcatel, Hyundai, Nokia, Samsung, Xpeed, ACN, and Interlink. ITeX has over 65 additional design wins for the Apollo family. Products built with the Apollo family of chipsets have been deployed by telecommunications carriers worldwide.

Rich Forte, President and CEO stated, "We believe the successful deployment of our Apollo series full-rate ADSL modem chipsets is attributable to its high performance, stable operation, and industry-wide interoperability with central office equipment, in addition to its patented auto-configuration capability for different ADSL standards. We also believe ITeX's easy-to-use software is driving the market as it moves towards self installation by ADSL subscribers."

The Apollo series is fully compliant with ANSI T1.413 Issue 2, G.dmt and G.lite standards. It is capable of operating at up to 8 Mbps downstream from CO to CPE and 800 kbps upstream, with a line reach of up to 20,000 feet. In addition, ITeX supports wide area network (WAN) protocols including Classical IP over ATM, Bridged Ethernet over ATM, PPP over ATM, and PPP over Ethernet, and Windows drivers for Windows 95/98/2000/Me and NT4.0.

ITeX, headquartered in Santa Clara, California, designs, develops and manufactures ADSL CPE (Customer Premises Equipment) and CO (Central Office) solutions. ITeX products include analog and digital semiconductor devices with operating system and driver software support. ITeX is a contributing member of the standards bodies including DSL Forum, ITU and T1E1. ITeX is also a member of UNH-IOL, where it has demonstrated interoperability with all major DSLAM vendors.