BEDFORD, Mass., May 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Aware, Inc. (Nasdaq:
AWRE), a worldwide leader and innovator of broadband intellectual property,
today announced a new licensee: PMC-Sierra, Inc. (Nasdaq: PMCS), a leading
provider of broadband communications and storage semiconductors for metro,
access, fiber to the home, and customer premises equipment (CPE).
PMC-Sierra is licensing Aware's StratiPHY2+(TM) technology for its newly
announced ADSL2+ residential gateway solutions.
"Combining Aware's field-proven StratiPHY2+ technology with PMC's
leading-edge products for communications applications offers the market a
superior ADSL2+ semiconductor solution," commented Luke Smithwick, Aware's
vice president of DSL licensing. "PMC's family of production-ready
reference designs for residential gateways exceeds the current market
technology requirements for the delivery of advanced services such as
quad-play, triple-play, video-over-DSL, and IPTV."
"Aware is regarded as a key source for DSL intellectual property and
has achieved broad acceptance through interoperability in the marketplace,"
commented Dino Bekis, vice president of marketing and applications for
PMC-Sierra's Communications Products Division. "We chose to work with
Aware's StratiPHY2+ because it contained all the requisite field-proven
technology that enabled us to rapidly incorporate ADSL2+ into our new CPE
product offerings."
About StratiPHY2+
StratiPHY2+ is a complete ADSL silicon intellectual property platform,
which contains all the requisite technology for semiconductor providers to
rapidly integrate the ITU standards ADSL2 (G.992.3) and ADSL2+ (G.992.5)
into their product offerings. StratiPHY2+ includes source code for Verilog
or VHDL RTL, firmware source code, and reference design information to
allow for faster time-to-market for next-generation customer premises
solutions. StratiPHY2+ empowers suppliers of network processors, wireless
LAN chipset and MPEG decoders to rapidly integrate ADSL, resulting in
differentiated value-added products. More than 2 million ADSL2+ CPE units
based upon StratiPHY2+ have shipped worldwide.
Aware's entire line of StratiPHY platforms will be featured in Aware's
booth at GLOBALCOMM 2006 (#16035) from June 5 - 7, 2006 in Chicago. For
more information on Aware or StratiPHY2+ please visit Aware's website at
http://www.aware.com.
PMC-Sierra will be demonstrating its new residential gateway platform
in the Company's "Digital Home Experience" at GLOBALCOMM 2006 (#52043) from
June 5 - 7, 2006 in Chicago.
About PMC-Sierra
PMC-Sierra(TM) is a leading provider of broadband communications and
storage semiconductors for metro, access, fiber to the home, wireless
infrastructure, storage, laser printers and customer premises equipment.
PMC-Sierra offers worldwide technical and sales support, including a
network of offices throughout North America, Europe, Israel and Asia. The
company is publicly traded on the NASDAQ Stock Market under the PMCS symbol
and is included in the S&P 500 Index. For more information, visit
http://www.pmc-sierra.com/digital-home /
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. Any other trademarks
appearing herein are the property of their respective owners.
SOURCE Aware, Inc.
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http://www.pmc-sierra.com/digital-home
http://www.aware.com/
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CONTACT:
Sarah LaLiberte of Aware, Inc.,
+1-781-687-0695, sarahl@aware.com
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