Aware extends its DSL technical innovation and leadership into the wired
home networking marketplace.
BEDFORD, Mass., April 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Aware, Inc. (Nasdaq:
AWRE), a leading supplier of broadband technology and DSL test and
diagnostics solutions, today announced the company's membership in the
HomeGrid(TM) Forum as a promoter. HomeGrid is a new special interest group
which aims to promote and influence a single, next-generation worldwide
home networking standard for digital content.
"As a DSL technology provider, Aware has always understood the
importance of home networking as a means of extending the access network
inside of the home," commented Michael Tzannes, CEO of Aware. "By joining
HomeGrid, Aware can leverage its technical, marketing, and standards body
expertise and experience to make significant contributions and
recommendations to the complementary home networking standards, which will
ultimately assist the ITU-T G.hn working group in achieving the
performance, coverage and quality- of-service standards necessary to
address the maturing global home networking market."
The HomeGrid Forum will be a companion to ITU-T G.hn, supporting the
interests of service providers, consumer electronics manufacturers, PC OEMs
and other networking companies to create a single MAC and PHY protocol for
transporting multimedia across a home's existing wiring to include coaxial
cable, power lines and phone lines. HomeGrid Forum is contributing
next-generation technology requirements to ITU-T G.hn, quickly developing
consensus around one worldwide standard. ITU-T is the standardization
sector providing global telecommunication standards in the International
Telecommunication Union.
As a leader in communications semiconductor intellectual property,
Aware plans to develop a technology offering that it will license to
semiconductor companies enabling them to develop standard-compliant ICs in
a fraction of the time at a fraction of the cost that it would take to do
it alone. Aware's broadband wireline expertise is ideally suited to
overcoming the significant performance, reach, interoperability, and QoS
problems that are inherent to home networking. This expertise has been
hard-won over more than a decade of specifying, building, qualifying and
deploying DSL chipsets in some of the most challenging network conditions
worldwide.
"Aware has been a significant technical contributor and has held
leadership positions in standards organizations, including the ITU-T and
DSL Forum, for more than ten years," Tzannes continued. "We believe that
the broad adoption of industry standards is fundamental to the success of
emerging technologies and recognize that the time is right for a unified
global home-networking standard to enable semiconductor, equipment and
service providers to deliver advanced value-added services to the broad
marketplace. We are pleased to be part of the group of experts making this
a reality."
About Aware
Aware is a leading technology supplier for the telecommunications
industries. For more than ten years, Aware has pioneered innovations at
telecommunications standards-setting organizations and continues to develop
and market DSL silicon intellectual property and test and diagnostics
products. Its StratiPHY(TM) IP product line supports DSL standards,
including ADSL2+ and VDSL2, and has been broadly licensed to leading
semiconductor companies. Telecom equipment vendors and phone companies use
Aware's DSL test and diagnostics modules and Dr. DSL(R) software to help
provision DSL circuits globally. Aware is also a veteran of the biometrics
industry, providing biometric and imaging software components used in
government systems worldwide since 1992. Aware's interoperable,
standard-compliant, field-proven imaging products are used in a number of
applications, from border management to criminal justice to medical
imaging. Aware is a publicly held company (Nasdaq: AWRE) based in Bedford,
Massachusetts. 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. The DSL factors include, but are not limited to: we have a
unique business model, our quarterly results are difficult to predict, our
DSL licensing and DSL test and diagnostic businesses depend upon a limited
number of customers, 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, our business could be harmed if our test and diagnostic hardware
and software products have quality problems, we depend on a single source
contract manufacturer for the manufacture of our DSL hardware products, our
manufacturing systems may not be adequate for our DSL test and diagnostics
hardware products, we depend on single source suppliers for components in
our DSL hardware products, 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, specifically the
section titled Risk Factors in our annual report on Form 10-K for the
fiscal year ended December 31, 2007 and other reports and filings made with
the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Aware, StratiPHY and Dr. DSL are trademarks or registered trademarks of
Aware, Inc. Any other trademarks appearing herein are the property of their
respective owners.
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CONTACT:
Sarah LaLiberte of Aware, Inc.,
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