Cayman Selects Broadcom's HPNA Chip Sets for Cayman Broadband Gateway Products.

Business/High-Tech Editors

BILLERICA, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 31, 2001

Cayman Systems, the leading provider of intelligent broadband gateways for the home, home office and small business, today announced the integration of Broadcom Corporation's (Nasdaq:BRCM) HomePNA technology into Cayman's family of award-winning intelligent broadband gateway products.

Broadcom is the leading provider of Home Phoneline Networking Alliance (HPNA) and cable modem integrated circuits for Broadband communications.

The two companies are also exploring the integration of other Broadcom broadband solutions including DOCSIS 1.1 cable modems into Cayman's product suite furthering Cayman's commitment to be "broadband agnostic(TM)".

"Aligning ourselves with Broadcom allows us to capitalize on Broadcom's extensive knowledge and experience in the Home Phoneline Networking Alliance's (HomePNA) 2.0 standard, and also on their quality and superb track record in the cable modem chip set space," said Peter N. Vicars, CEO of Cayman Systems. "Every home and small office has its own specific needs for sharing a broadband connection. With the integration of HPNA we continue to provide more choices for the end-user."

HPNA, uses the phone line network of the home or small business to offer a simple, cost effective and proven technology that allows computers and other information appliances to connect with each other and/or the Internet without interrupting standard telephone service. This allows consumers to develop a home LAN utilizing existing telephone wiring and requires no costly or disruptive rewiring of the home. With an HPNA home LAN, multi-player gaming, downloading of large graphic images from the Internet and sharing of information between PC's in the home contention for a broadband connection is eliminated.

Cayman is integrating HPNA to its intelligent broadband gateways thereby allowing ILEC, ISP and MSO customers the ability to offer the widest range of home and small office networking technologies to their end user customers. Given the variability of homes, and in particular home wiring environments, Cayman service provider customers can be sure to meet the specific needs of their end users resulting in the continuation of Cayman's highest end-user satisfaction record and the highest percentage of successful first time installations!

"The combination of explosive broadband deployment and the rapid increase in multi-PC households is creating a significant growth market for home networking. Broadcom's home networking chipsets provide market-leading performance, reliability and integration to vendors like Cayman," said Jeff Thermond, vice president and general manager of Broadcom's Home Networking Business Unit.

"By working within the HPNA standard, Cayman's products allow residential users to utilize existing home phone wires to create a home LAN to easily distribute broadband throughout the home without interrupting standard telephone service or laying additional wires," said Steve Craddock senior vice president -- New Media Development for Comcast, Inc.

Cayman was the first gateway provider to incorporate wireless LAN technologies allowing the end-user to completely network their home. The addition of HPNA complements Cayman's existing, and robustly deployed, home networking portfolio that includes Ethernet and the two dominant wireless LAN technologies -- Home RF and 802.11b. Cayman's intelligent gateway data communications technologies, on a single broadband Internet connection, allow the home to become a highly integrated network supporting an Ethernet home office connected to additional PC's via Home PNA with laptops and mobile devices sharing connectivity via a wireless LAN technology. All said, these functions, along with Cayman's "easy-to-use, hard-to-misuse(TM)" home management system makes home networking as simple as plugging in a telephone.

About Cayman Systems:

Cayman Systems, Inc., is the leading global provider of broadband gateway solutions, enabling the delivery of voice, video and high-speed data to the 21st century small office and home via technologies such as DSL, Cable and Broadband wireless; Cayman calls this Digital Freedom(TM). Cayman develops and delivers intelligent, straightforward solutions that enable broadband service providers to deliver revenue-generating services while maintaining tight cost controls. Cayman is headquartered in Billerica, Massachusetts. For additional information about Cayman and its products please visit www.cayman.com or call 800/473-4776.

About Broadcom:

Broadcom Corporation is the leading provider of highly integrated silicon solutions that enable broadband digital transmission of voice, video, and data. Using proprietary technologies and advanced design methodologies, the company designs, develops and supplies integrated circuits for a number of the most significant broadband communications markets, including the markets for cable set-top boxes, cable modems, high-speed local, metropolitan and wide area networks, home networking, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), carrier access, residential broadband gateways, direct broadcast satellite and terrestrial digital broadcast, optical networking, digital subscriber lines (xDSL) and wireless communications. Broadcom is headquartered in Irvine, Calif., and may be contacted at 949/450-8700 or at www.broadcom.com.