Lucent Technologies Affirms its Position as a Home-Networking Leader with its Platinum Sponsorship of CONNECTIONS 2000: Advancing the Networked Home - Industry Trend or Event

Edge: Work-Group Computing Report, April 3, 2000

Lucent Technologies Microelectronics Group, a leader in a broad range of home networking solutions, announced its Platinum sponsorship of CONNECTIONS 2000: Advancing the Networked Home, hosted by Parks Associates and CABA.

Held in San Diego on May 3-5, 2000, CONNECTIONS will focus on the business, technical and regulatory issues affecting the in-home network and residential gateway markets, with key players attending from a variety of industries, including consumer electronics, computing, energy utility and residential construction.

"With its innovations in both wireless and hardwired (structured wiring) solutions, Lucent Technologies is positioned to be a driving force in this market," said Tricia Parks, President of Parks Associates. "Parks Associates has watched the home networking market from the beginning, and Lucent Technologies has been one of the major factors in its accelerated growth. We are pleased to have Lucent participating at CONNECTIONS."

Lucent makes home phoneline networking chips that run at up to 10 Mbps per second, is a founding member of the Home Phoneline Networking Alliance (HomePNA) and is a co-author of the HomePNA's 2.0 joint specification for 10 Mbps home networking.

It also designs and manufactures IEEE 802.11-compatible chipsets for the wireless local area networking market. These chips enable wireless home networking and local area network connections that run at speeds of up to 11 Mbps per second. Additionally, it is a promoter of the Bluetooth SIG and designs and manufactures chipsets and modules for Bluetooth applications. These radio-frequency solutions provide wireless and Internet connectivity between a myriad of electronic devices such as laptop computers, hand-held communicators and cellular phones.

CONNECTIONS has been the premier forum to discuss these networking efforts and specifications since its inception. This annual conference started in 1996 as the first event to cover home networks and gateways exclusively. Lucent Technologies is a natural fit with this leading home-networking conference, especially as this industry is poised to promulgate in the residential market.

"Lucent is uniquely positioned to accelerate the introduction and deployment of home networking applications," said John Dickson, Executive Vice President and CEO of Lucent Technologies Microelectronics and Communications Technologies. "The breadth of our networking capability, backed by a stream of Bell Labs innovations, enables us to offer an unmatched portfolio of home networking solutions."

"Lucent Technologies' efforts in home networking have been significant," said Ron Zimmer, Executive Director of CABA. "The Company's expertise will lend itself very well to the atmosphere at CONNECTIONS 2000, where we will see and discuss home networking as it has begun to take shape in the mass market."

For information about sponsoring, contact Steve Harvey at 972/490-1113 or email harvey@parksassociates.com. To register for the event, visit www.connectionsconference.com. For more information about Parks Associates or CABA, visit www.parksassociates.com or www.caba.org.

Lucent Technologies 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 Laboratories is the research and development arm for the company. For more information on Lucent Technologies, headquartered in Murray Hill, N.J., USA, visit its Web site at www.lucent.com.

Lucent's Microelectronics Group designs and manufactures integrated circuits and optoelectronic components for the computer and communications industries. More information about the Microelectronics Group is available from its Web site at www.lucent.com/micro.>

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