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WASHINGTON - OEMs broke new ground at the ComNet show last week, forging alliances aimed at giving carriers better tools to provision multiple voiceband channels and digitalsubscriber-line services.
Perhaps the most radical leap came from the troika of AG Communications Inc. (Phoenix), its parent Lucent Technologies Inc. (Murray Hill, N.J. ), and DSL innovator Paradyne Corp. (Largo, Fla. ), who jointlyl aunched a single copper-pair access system called SuperLine.
Meanwhile, Fujitsu Network Communications Inc. worked with its algorithm partner Orckit Communications Inc. (Sacramento, Calif.) on DSL provisioned over frame relay, while Orckit launched its first program with Fujitsu Microelectronics Ltd. to develop a single-chip splitterless ADSL solution.
AG Communications' rationale in pulling in partners for SuperLine was echoed in nearly all the partnerships announced at ComNet.
"It's not enough to have a winning technology any more," said Mark Emery, vice president and general manager of new ventures at AG. "We wanted to bring in Lucent to make sure this is a technology that can be accepted in a wide range of carriers."
SuperLine is based on a technology developed by Paradyne called Tripleplay, which uses quadrature amplitude modulation to provide three independent phone...