Aware Sees New G.Lite Product Announcements as Strong Endorsement of ITU Standard.

Business/Technology Editors

BEDFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 27, 2000

Aware, Inc. (NASDAQ: AWRE), a worldwide leader in DSL (digital subscriber line) technology for high-speed Internet access over existing telephone networks and a pioneer of G.Lite, today announced that recent G.Lite product announcements by industry suppliers are a strong endorsement of the International Telecommunication Union's G.992.2 standard. Aware's G.Lite technology package, available since 1998, meets all the features of G.992.2 including fast-retrain and recently publicized 4Mbps-plus data rates.

The G.Lite standard was targeted at enabling high-speed Internet access service over existing telephone lines. A data rate of 1.5 Mbps was identified as a target operating goal in order to service the demands of the Internet access marketplace as well as accommodate the wide variation of loop lengths and conditions in the telephone network. The fundamental design of the G.Lite standard supports data rates in excess of 5Mbps under ideal loop conditions and greater than 1.5Mbps under better than average conditions. Aware's technology package supports the entire feature set of the G.Lite standard including greater than 5 Mbps downstream data rates, Fast Retrain and Power-down modes.

Aware is an intellectual property supplier that makes its technology available in the form of digital signal processing (DSP) software, application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) designs or cores, system architecture software, and reference designs. Aware's technology offerings can be applied to any silicon architecture, including DSP-centric, ASIC-centric, and host-processor-centric or "soft" solutions.

Michael Tzannes, Aware's president and chief executive officer, said: "New product announcements for G.Lite further increase the momentum developing in the DSL market and clearly demonstrate the flexibility and strength of the G.Lite standard. A number of our customers already support greater than 1.5Mbps speeds, and we applaud the endorsement of the latent higher speed capabilities of this powerful standard."

About Aware

Aware, Inc. designs, develops, licenses and markets DSL technology that enables broadband communications over existing telephone networks. Its solutions, including G.Lite and full-rate ADSL, address central office as well consumer electronics requirements. The company licenses its intellectual property and software to semiconductor manufacturers and equipment manufacturers who sell products incorporating Aware's technology. Aware also markets to systems companies to encourage them to design its technology into their products, and to service providers to encourage them to deploy new broadband services based on its technology. More information about Aware can be found at http://www.aware.com.

Note to Investors:

This press release contains certain statements of a forward-looking nature relating to future events or the future financial performance of Aware. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those indicated by such forward-looking statements include the risks that Aware has a new and unproven business model, that Aware depends on a limited number of licensees, that Aware depends on equipment companies to incorporate its technology, and that DSL technology competes with other technologies for broadband access. These and other risks are described in various filings that Aware has made with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which risks are incorporated herein by reference.