BEDFORD, Mass., April 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Aware, Inc.
(Nasdaq: AWRE), a leading supplier of broadband technology and DSL test and
diagnostics solutions, today announced the company's membership in the
HomeGrid(TM) Forum as a promoter. HomeGrid is a new special interest group
which aims to promote and influence a single, next-generation worldwide home
networking standard for digital content.
"As a DSL technology provider, Aware has always understood the importance
of home networking as a means of extending the access network inside of the
home," commented Michael Tzannes, CEO of Aware. "By joining HomeGrid, Aware
can leverage its technical, marketing, and standards body expertise and
experience to make significant contributions and recommendations to the
complementary home networking standards, which will ultimately assist the
ITU-T G.hn working group in achieving the performance, coverage and quality-
of-service standards necessary to address the maturing global home networking
market."
The HomeGrid Forum will be a companion to ITU-T G.hn, supporting the
interests of service providers, consumer electronics manufacturers, PC OEMs
and other networking companies to create a single MAC and PHY protocol for
transporting multimedia across a home's existing wiring to include coaxial
cable, power lines and phone lines. HomeGrid Forum is contributing
next-generation technology requirements to ITU-T G.hn, quickly developing
consensus around one worldwide standard. ITU-T is the standardization sector
providing global telecommunication standards in the International
Telecommunication Union.
As a leader in communications semiconductor intellectual property, Aware
plans to develop a technology offering that it will license to semiconductor
companies enabling them to develop standard-compliant ICs in a fraction of the
time at a fraction of the cost that it would take to do it alone. Aware's
broadband wireline expertise is ideally suited to overcoming the significant
performance, reach, interoperability, and QoS problems that are inherent to
home networking. This expertise has been hard-won over more than a decade of
specifying, building, qualifying and deploying DSL chipsets in some of the
most challenging network conditions worldwide.
"Aware has been a significant technical contributor and has held
leadership positions in standards organizations, including the ITU-T and DSL
Forum, for more than ten years," Tzannes continued. "We believe that the broad
adoption of industry standards is fundamental to the success of emerging
technologies and recognize that the time is right for a unified global
home-networking standard to enable semiconductor, equipment and service
providers to deliver advanced value-added services to the broad marketplace.
We are pleased to be part of the group of experts making this a reality."
About Aware
Aware is a leading technology supplier for the telecommunications
industries. For more than ten years, Aware has pioneered innovations at
telecommunications standards-setting organizations and continues to develop
and market DSL silicon intellectual property and test and diagnostics
products. Its StratiPHY(TM) IP product line supports DSL standards, including
ADSL2+ and VDSL2, and has been broadly licensed to leading semiconductor
companies. Telecom equipment vendors and phone companies use Aware's DSL test
and diagnostics modules and Dr. DSL(R) software to help provision DSL circuits
globally. Aware is also a veteran of the biometrics industry, providing
biometric and imaging software components used in government systems worldwide
since 1992. Aware's interoperable, standard-compliant, field-proven imaging
products are used in a number of applications, from border management to
criminal justice to medical imaging. Aware is a publicly held company
(Nasdaq: AWRE) based in Bedford, Massachusetts. www.aware.com
Safe Harbor Warning
Portions of this release contain forward-looking statements regarding
future events and are subject to risks and uncertainties, such as estimates or
projections of future revenue and earnings and the growth of the DSL market.
Aware wishes to caution you that there are factors that could cause actual
results to differ materially from the results indicated by such statements.
The DSL factors include, but are not limited to: we have a unique business
model, our quarterly results are difficult to predict, our DSL licensing and
DSL test and diagnostic businesses depend upon a limited number of customers,
we derive a significant amount of revenue from a small number of customers, we
depend on equipment companies to incorporate our technology into their
products, we face intense competition from other DSL vendors, DSL technology
competes with other technologies for broadband access, our business could be
harmed if our test and diagnostic hardware and software products have quality
problems, we depend on a single source contract manufacturer for the
manufacture of our DSL hardware products, our manufacturing systems may not
be adequate for our DSL test and diagnostics hardware products, we depend on
single source suppliers for components in our DSL hardware products, and our
business is subject to rapid technological change. We refer you to the
documents Aware files from time to time with the Securities and Exchange
Commission, specifically the section titled Risk Factors in our annual report
on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2007 and other reports and
filings made with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Aware, StratiPHY and Dr. DSL are trademarks or registered trademarks of
Aware, Inc. Any other trademarks appearing herein are the property of their
respective owners.
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