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STMicroelectronics Shipping High-Performing VDSL Chipset in Volume to Central Office Market Leaders |
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Geneva, October 1, 2003 - STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM) today announced volume production of the company's DMT VDSL chipset. This is the chipset that was independently tested at the 'VDSL Olympics' where it outperformed all rivals in every measurement, validating the advantage of DMT line code and demonstrating the superiority of the ST design. The solution is being delivered to multiple system developers both in volume and for evaluation. Introduced in March 2003, the ST VDSL chipset delivers aggregate bit rates in excess of 100Mbits/s over short loops and delivers outstanding reach in all conditions. Designed for both central-office and customer-premises-equipment applications, the chipset integrates a complete Frequency Division Duplex DMT VDSL modem from the line to the ATM interface in two chips, the STLC90115 Discrete Multi Tone Modulation (DMT) Processor and the STLC90114 Integrated Analog Front End. The chipset supports all of the international VDSL-DMT standards (ITU-T, T1e1.4, ETSI) and is compliant with the 997, 998 and Flex frequency plans. To ensure interoperability of DMT VDSL equipment from different manufacturers, ST participates with other chipset vendors in initiatives to ensure that all DMT chipsets will work with each other. This interoperability has already been demonstrated in March 2003 between ST and Ikanos. Furthermore, independent tests were conducted on both DMT and QAM VDSL chipsets for two months during the VDSL Olympics event and presented in Ottawa, June 18-19 2003 at the T1e1.4 interim meeting. The DMT line code solutions performed better than the QAM solutions. In addition, the ST chipset performed better than all rival chipsets. "We expect the VDSL market to grow to 6 - 7 million lines deployed by 2005 with most of those lines deployed in Asia," said Will Strauss, Principal Analyst, at Forward Concepts. "The fact that ST has a strong support structure worldwide will allow them to meet the growing regional requirements where the product is needed. In addition, because they have the ability to manufacture product in their own fabs the customer will benefit in the long run due to their ability to scale volume as needed and provide product at a lower price." "We are proud to say that we are shipping volume production to the world's leading suppliers of the broadband access equipments on both CO and CPE side and are in the evaluation stage with several key players of the access market," said Giovanni Chiappano, Director of the Access Networking Business Unit of STMicroelectronics, "Our years of experience in deploying xDSL solutions have provided us the ability to not only manufacture products with outstanding performance, but also the ability to ship product on demand at market driven price levels." The ST VDSL chipset is shipping now. Evaluation boards and a complete modem reference design are also available. More information can be found on the ST VDSL solution at www.st.com/vdsl. About ST's xDSL Portfolio With over 50 million ports shipped, ST's xDSL products are the most commonly integrated and widely deployed in the market. As a leading innovator in the field of DSL, and one of the founders of the technology, ST's strong patent position has enabled them to provide equipment manufacturers with solutions that are high performing, cost-effective and flexible. Blue-chip equipment manufacturers use ST products across client equipment, central office and router segments and offers optimized packages to meet the specific needs of customers in various market segments. About STMicroelectronics STMicroelectronics is a global leader in developing and delivering semiconductor solutions across the spectrum of microelectronics applications. An unrivalled combination of silicon and system expertise, manufacturing strength, Intellectual Property (IP) portfolio and strategic partners positions the Company at the forefront of System-on-Chip (SoC) technology and its products play a key role in enabling today's convergence markets. The Company's shares are traded on the New York Stock Exchange, on Euronext Paris and on the Milan Stock Exchange. In 2002, the Company's net revenues were $6.32 billion and net earnings were $429.4 million. Further information on ST can be found at http://www.st.com. |
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