CONEXANT APPLAUDS ITU RATIFICATION OF V.92 STANDARD.

Conexant Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:CNXT) Wednesday announced that it fully supports and endorses the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) ratification in favor of a final set of V.92 modem specifications.

Conexant has successfully demonstrated V.92 interoperability with Cisco, Lucent Technologies, Nortel and 3Com, major suppliers of remote access server equipment, and will begin shipping its V.92-based chipsets to customers this year.

"The dial-up modem remains the most popular Internet access solution available, and we are excited to see continued industry support for this emerging standard," said Matt Rhodes, senior vice president and general manager for Conexant's Personal Computing Division.

"The V.92 standard is a key enabler for enhancing and simplifying dial-up modem access, while providing an interoperable platform for enhancing the user experience of Internet connectivity."

Conexant contributed key technologies to the new V.92 dial-up modem specification, which significantly reduces the time it takes to establish a dial-up connection, improves upload rates and adds the ability to receive and initiate phone calls during a dial-up modem session.

V.92 encompasses a number of specifications including QuickConnect(TM), which dramatically improves how quickly users can connect with their Internet Service Provider (ISP), and Modem-on-Hold, which enables users to suspend and reactivate their dial-up connection to either receive or initiate a call without having to implement the entire dial-up sequence again.

V.92 also includes a capability called pulse code modulation (PCM) upstream, which boosts the upstream data rates from the user to the ISP to reduce transfer times for large files and email attachments sent by the user. ?