Aware, Inc. Announces Ikanos Communications, Inc. as New Licensee

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Aware, Inc. Announces Ikanos Communications, Inc. as New Licensee
          Ikanos to purchase product lines from Analog Devices, Inc.

    BEDFORD, Mass., Jan. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Aware, Inc.
(Nasdaq: AWRE), a worldwide leader and innovator of broadband intellectual
property, today announced Ikanos Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq: IKAN) as an
Aware licensee, subject to the closing of Ikanos' purchase of the network
processor and ADSL ASIC product lines of Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI).  Ikanos
announced earlier today that it intends to acquire certain products that ADI
and Aware have co-developed based upon Aware's technology, including the
market-leading StratiPHY2+(TM)-based CPE (customer premises equipment) ADSL2+
products.
    "ADSL2+ is an important mainstream broadband technology, and we are
excited about strengthening our product portfolio through the addition of
Aware's StratiPHY2+ technology," said Rajesh Vashist, chairman and CEO of
Ikanos Communications.  "We look forward to working with Aware to support the
customer base, and to bring new products to market to meet evolving customer
needs."
    "We are pleased to have Ikanos as a licensee of our StratiPHY2+
technology," commented Michael Tzannes, CEO of Aware.  "With our new
relationship with Ikanos, we look forward to a seamless transition and to
working with Ikanos to continue supporting their customers and bringing new
technologies to the market."
    Aware's StratiPHY2+ intellectual property has achieved broad acceptance in
the marketplace.  It contains all the requisite technology for semiconductor
and vertically integrated system vendors to rapidly incorporate ADSL2/2+ into
their customer premises equipment (CPE) product offerings. Over 2.5 million
ADSL2+ CPE units based upon StratiPHY2+ have shipped, primarily in Europe to
France Telecom.  StratiPHY2+ is the DSL engine that drives ADI's
EaglePLUS(TM), EagleIV and Fusiv-AT(TM) ADSL2/2+ CPE chipsets.  StratiPHY2+ is
compliant with ADSL2 and ADSL2+ as well as legacy ADSL ITU standards.
    Subject to the closing of the purchase agreement, Ikanos is acquiring all
the rights and obligations associated with the Aware technology licensed by
ADI.  Compensation to Aware associated with the purchase of ADI's product
lines was not disclosed.

    About Aware
    Aware, Inc. designs, develops, licenses and markets DSL technologies that
enable broadband communications over existing telephone networks.  Its
solutions, including splitterless G.lite, full-rate ADSL, ADSL2, ADSL2+,
VDSL2, Bonded ADSL2+, Dr. DSL(R), StratiPHY(TM), StratiPHY-Bonded(TM),
StratiPHY2+(TM), StratiPHY3(TM) and G.SHDSL, address central office as well as
customer premise requirements.  Aware is also a leading provider of standards-
based biometric transaction and image compression software toolkits. More
information can be found at http://www.aware.com.

    Safe Harbor Warning
    Portions of this release contain forward-looking statements regarding
future events and are subject to risks and uncertainties, such as estimates or
projections of future revenue and earnings and the growth of the DSL market.
Aware wishes to caution you that there are factors that could cause actual
results to differ materially from the results indicated by such statements.
These factors include, but are not limited to: we have a unique business
model, our quarterly results are difficult to predict, we depend on a limited
number of licensees, we derive a significant amount of revenue from a small
number of customers, we depend on equipment companies to incorporate our
technology into their products, we face intense competition from other DSL
vendors, DSL technology competes with other technologies for broadband access,
and our business is subject to rapid technological change. We refer you to the
documents Aware files from time to time with the Securities and Exchange
Commission.
    Dr. DSL, StratiPHY, StratiPHY2+, StratiPHY3, and StratiPHY-Bonded are
trademarks or registered trademarks of Aware, Inc.  EaglePLUS and Fusiv are
trademarks or registered trademarks of Analog Devices, Inc.  Any other
trademarks appearing herein are the property of their respective owners.
SOURCE Aware, Inc.
http://www.aware.com
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CONTACT:
Sarah LaLiberte of Aware, Inc.,
+1-781-687-0695, sarahl@aware.com