Interphase Corporation Announces First Asymmetrical Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) Product; Product Introduction Marks the Company's Entry into xDSL Market.DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--January 16, 1997--Interphase Corporation (NASDAQ/NMS:INPH), a leading international supplier of local area network (LAN (Local Area Network) A communications network that serves users within a confined geographical area. The "clients" are the user's workstations typically running Windows, although Mac and Linux clients are also used. ) and wide area network (WAN) technologies, today announced that the company has launched its Digital Subscriber Line See DSL. (communications, protocol) Digital Subscriber Line - (DSL, or Digital Subscriber Loop, xDSL - see below) A family of digital telecommunications protocols designed to allow high speed data communication over the existing copper telephone lines between end-users and (DSL DSL in full Digital Subscriber Line Broadband digital communications connection that operates over standard copper telephone wires. It requires a DSL modem, which splits transmissions into two frequency bands: the lower frequencies for voice (ordinary ) product family with its first product, the 5530 ADSL See DSL. ADSL - Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line Interface Card, which will provide high-speed Internet and remote access connectivity for PCI-based systems. This product introduction signals the company's entry into the growing DSL market and is the first of a new family of access products which will integrate ADSL and other DSL technologies, including Integrated Services Digital Network Integrated services digital network (ISDN) A generic term referring to the integration of communications services transported over digital facilities such as wire pairs, coaxial cables, optical fibers, microwave radio, and satellites. (ISDN ISDN in full Integrated Services Digital Network Digital telecommunications network that operates over standard copper telephone wires or other media. ). According to Brian Phillips, industry manager for computer peripherals at the market analyst firm of Frost & Sullivan, the ADSL modem market will represent a $200 million industry by the year 2000, up from a mere $3 million in 1996. ADSL is a new, high-speed digital modem technology that provides access to data communications, such as the Internet, and interactive video, such as video on demand, at significantly higher speeds than are currently available. According to the ADSL Forum, ADSL's data transmission rates are 50 - 400 times faster than the fastest dial-up modems (28.8 kbps) available today. The technology works over existing, ordinary twisted-pair copper telephone wires connected to most homes and offices, enabling users to simultaneously use their conventional analog telephones and maintain a high-speed data connection, with only one telephone line. According to Stephen Polley, chairman, chief executive officer and president of Interphase interphase /in·ter·phase/ (in´ter-faz) the interval between two successive cell divisions, during which the chromosomes are not individually distinguishable. in·ter·phase n. , the company's entry into the DSL market strengthens Interphase's position in the dynamic high-speed transmission segment of the industry, and allows the company to build upon its LAN and WAN expertise. He added that, as part of Interphase's commitment to the DSL market, the company plans to produce additional ADSL interface cards and equipment for telephone operating companies' central office environments, which will groom both ISDN and ADSL data traffic off the public voice network onto dedicated data backbone networks. "As demand for bandwidth-intensive applications continues to grow, standard connectivity for data communications and interactive video access will become increasingly inadequate, and solutions to reduce the growing local telephone network congestion will be required," said Polley. "Interphase views ISDN as the high-speed digital access solution available today, with ADSL representing a new high-speed transmission technology for the future." Frost & Sullivan's Phillips noted, "the main application for ADSL modem technology will be Internet access, which will be the catalyst for this technology's explosive growth. Users increasingly are demanding enhanced access capabilities, which aren't possible with today's current modem options." "The explosive growth of the Internet and a growing demand for high-speed remote access connectivity is driving the move towards digital subscriber line technologies," said Felix Diaz, Interphase chief technology officer. "ISDN has gained significant momentum over the last year and ADSL is generating a great amount of interest for high-speed Internet access and telecommuting telecommuting, an arrangement by which people work at home using a computer and telephone, transmitting work material to a business office by means of a modem and telephone lines; it is also known as telework. applications, where downstream bandwidth is needed. We believe both these technologies are important access solutions and our goal is to provide end-users and service providers with the same look and feel for ISDN and ADSL over the same range of services," continued Diaz. Polley noted, the market for the 5530 ADSL Interface Card includes telephone operating companies  This article has too many unnecessary external links.Please help Wikipedia by organising, removing or transferring them to other articles. Company that provides Internet connections and services to individuals and organizations. For a monthly fee, ISPs provide computer users with a connection to their site (see data transmission), as well as a log-in name and password. . Although these businesses will be the initial market for Interphase's product, consumers ultimately will benefit when ADSL becomes a standard service offering for residential users. Interphase 5530 ADSL Interface Card The 5530 Interface Card provides ADSL link connectivity for Internet or remote access applications and employs industry proven CAP DSL transceiver technology for maximum reliability and performance. It provides easy end user "plug & play" installation under Windows 95. Diagnostic utilities ADSLWatch (TM) and ADSLEye (TM) are included to monitor line traffic as well as hardware state and configuration. In addition, full support is provided for the standard Microsoft TCP/IP TCP/IP in full Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol Standard Internet communications protocols that allow digital computers to communicate over long distances. and PPP (Point-to-Point Protocol) The most popular method for transporting IP packets over a serial link between the user and the ISP. Developed in 1994 by the IETF and superseding the SLIP protocol, PPP establishes the session between the user's computer and the ISP using protocol stack. The 5530 has a list price of $1,095 and will be in limited availability beginning mid-March '97. General availability is anticipated for May '97. Support for the Windows NT operating system will be available by late Q297. About Interphase Corporation Founded in 1974, Interphase Corporation is a leading international supplier of high-performance computer networking, mass storage, remote access and ISDN products. The company's primary product lines are based on established and emerging technologies for the high-speed transmission and storage of information in local and wide area networking environments (LANs and WANs). The LAN products are based upon FDDI (Fiber Distributed Data Interface) Often pronounced "fiddy," it was a LAN and MAN access method that had its heyday in the mid-1990s. FDDI was an ANSI standard token passing network that transmitted 100 Mbps over optical fiber up to 10 kilometers. , ATM, Fast Ethernet, SCSI SCSI in full Small Computer System Interface Once common standard for connecting peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, etc.) to small and medium-sized computers. SCSI has given way to faster standards, such as Firewire and USB. and Fibre Channel technologies, and provide the network interface within server and desktop environments. The WAN products employ remote access, X.25, and ISDN technologies to provide connectivity solutions for remote sites in heterogeneous, multivendor networking environments. Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, Interphase markets its products to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), distributors, systems integrators, value-added resellers (VARs) and large end-users through a worldwide sales and service network. -0- Note to Editors: ADSLWatch and ADSLEye are trademarks of Interphase Corporation. CONTACT: Trade: Michael Eckley, MarCom Mgr. 214/654-5325 Interphase Corporation meckley@iphase.com or Financial: Bob Drury, VP Finance 214/654-5000 Interphase Corporation bdrury@iphase.com or Robert Martin or Larry Meltzer 214/953-0808 Meltzer & Martin Public Relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. 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