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Dallas- Lucent Technologies Inc.'s Microelectronics Group and Texas Instruments Inc. have separately responded to the rapidly growing market for xDSL modems and services by introducing integrated chipsets and deciding on a joint development effort to provide customized broadband content.
Lucent has announced details of a solution it says will enable central offices to support eight ADSL modems using a single device.
Meanwhile, at the Networld+Interop show this week in Las Vegas, TI and Novell Inc. will demonstrate an "intelligent gateway" capability that will allow ADSL service providers to give customers personalized digital services and content built around new DSPs planned by TI.
The new products are being developed in response to an ADSL market expected to grow from 70,000 users in 1999 to more than 27 million by 2003, according to IDC, Framingham, Mass.
Lucent's eight-channel, full-rate-ADSL device is a multichip solution housed in a single-IC package to decrease cost and...