Paradyne Endorses Conexant's AutoBaud Technology to Help Simplify and Improve DSL Interoperability.TAMPA, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 8, 1999-- In a move that will further expand the market reach of its broadband 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 network solutions, Paradyne Networks Inc. (Nasdaq:PDYN) today announced that it is using Conexant's (Nasdaq:CNXT) ZipWire(TM) SDSL See DSL. SDSL - Single-line Digital Subscriber Line transceivers and AutoBaud technology in its 2B1Q SDSL port card for the Hotwire(R) GranDSLAM solution. AutoBaud is a symmetrical DSL (SDSL) interoperability platform that is gaining wide acceptance from DSL vendors, as well as service providers. Today's announcement is another step in Paradyne's interoperability initiatives. Paradyne's recently announced Hotwire Connected program, an interoperability program designed to expand the number of multi-vendor DSL endpoints that support Paradyne's Hotwire DSLAM (DSL Access Multiplexor) A central office (CO) device for ADSL service that intermixes voice traffic and DSL traffic onto a customer's DSL line. It also separates incoming phone and data signals and directs them onto the appropriate carrier's network. See DSL. offerings - providing more choices to DSL service providers and their customers. Endpoints, such as SDSL routers and Integrated Access Devices (IADs), link customers' homes and businesses to the central office (CO) for the last leg of the network, providing super-fast data and voice DSL services. "Paradyne's recognized experience and intellectual property in the area of provisioning DSL equipment will be a great benefit as the industry works toward SDSL interoperability," said Mark Steenstra, SDSL product line marketing manager at Conexant. "Paradyne's recognized leadership in DSL will further strengthen SDSL interoperability as we drive towards industry- wide acceptance." "The development of widely accepted technologies, such as Conexant's AutoBaud technology, is important for the industry," said Frank Wiener, Paradyne's vice president of broadband access See broadband and wireless broadband. solutions. "Providing a wide range of interoperable solutions for our customers is key to continuing industry-wide, rapid growth of DSL services for high-bandwidth applications like 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. and high-speed Internet See broadband. access." AutoBaud technology is designed to significantly enhance the connection set-up process between SDSL equipment operating at any one of the line rates that SDSL technology supports and to reduce time-consuming manual line qualification. AutoBaud allows carriers to automatically qualify and determine the maximum data rate supported by the line, alleviating the need for sending a service technician. ABOUT CONEXANT With revenues of approximately $1.5 billion, Conexant Systems Inc. is the world's largest independent company focused exclusively on providing semiconductor products and systems solutions for communications electronics. Conexant's Network Access Division provides semiconductor system solutions across a broad range of telecom and datacom infrastructure platforms and applications, including multiservice access processors, Wide Area Network (WAN) solutions, 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 (xDSL) technologies, and optical networking Communications between computers, telephones and other electronic devices using light. An optical network is far more reliable and has far greater potential transmission capacity than networking in the electrical domain. See optical fiber. IC solutions. By building upon today's broadest line of ICs and expertise in high-speed analog and digital connections, Conexant is well positioned to drive telecommunication infrastructure expansion. For additional information visit www.conexant.com. ABOUT PARADYNE Headquartered in Tampa Bay Tampa Bay, inlet of the Gulf of Mexico, 25 mi (40 km) long and 7 to 12 mi (11.3–19 km) wide, W Fla., separated from the Gulf by numerous small islands; it receives the Hillsborough River. St. , Fla., Paradyne is a leading innovator, developer and manufacturer of broadband network access products and technology. The company is recognized as a market leader in Digital Subscriber Line, T1 and Service Level Management products. Paradyne has shipped more than 3,900 of its Hotwire Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexers (DSLAMs) -- for a total capacity of more than one million lines. Paradyne markets its award-winning Hotwire DSL and FrameSaver(R) Service Level Management systems to Network Service Providers and business customers. Paradyne also licenses ETC ETC - ExTendible Compiler. Fortran-like, macro extendible. "ETC - An Extendible Macro-Based Compiler", B.N. Dickman, Proc SJCC 38 (1971). (R) and Tripleplay(TM) technology, and intellectual property incorporated in the V.90 standard. For more information on Paradyne and its products, call 1-800-PARADYNE (U.S. and Canada), 1-727-530-8623 or visit www.paradyne.com. "Safe Harbor Safe Harbor 1. A legal provision to reduce or eliminate liability as long as good faith is demonstrated. 2. A form of shark repellent implemented by a target company acquiring a business that is so poorly regulated that the target itself is less attractive. " Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA) implemented several significant substantive changes affecting certain cases brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability, class representation and awards fees and of 1995: Statements in this press release regarding Paradyne Corporation's business which are not historical facts are "forward-looking statements" that involve risks and uncertainties. For a discussion of such risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements, see the company's registration statement dated September 28, 1999. Editors Note: Visit Paradyne's virtual pressroom at www.paradyne.com/news_n_events/press_room for product images and/or additional information. Product availability and pricing subject to change without notification. 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