Advanced Product Development and Information Technology

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Newton, Mass., June 23, 1998 - Kalman Saffran Associates (KSA), a leading developer of state-of-the-art products for the data communications, telecommunications and interactive/CATV industries, today announced that it will offer advanced ADSL development services to companies looking to leverage this advanced technology.

Kalman Saffran Associates has combined extensive systems engineering experience with industry-leading expertise in related technologies such as ATM, SONET, T-Carriers and MPEG-2 to offer advanced ADSL development services to companies looking to leverage this advanced technology.

Telcos and ISPs are in a heated race to deploy ADSL and take advantage of the opportunity to deliver such high-bandwidth services as video-on-demand to the home. That competition means increased demand for ADSL systems from equipment makers. Development of ADSL systems requires an extensive knowledge, not only of the complex technology itself, but also related issues of implementing systems for telcos and ISPs. Trying to acquire this knowledge in real time can mean costly delays in time-to-market, and can put equipment makers at a competitive disadvantage.

In addition to being able to consider some of the systems engineering problems associated with working with SONET, ATM and T-carriers, KSA can also take into consideration the issues that might arise with MPEG-2 deployment, which will become necessary as the video-on-demand market grows through ADSL.

KSA is offering its services to those equipment makers looking to make ADSL a component of their offerings. KSA will not only develop the ADSL portion of a project, but in addition, KSA can provide other development services, such as line cards and add/drop multiplexers for xDSL (D-Slams).

KSA has a proven track record of delivering the toughest design projects to market quickly and on-budget.

About Kalman Saffran Associates - Established in 1978, Kalman Saffran Associates (KSA) is a leading OEM product development firm that rapidly creates innovative products for premier companies in the data communications, telecommunications and interactive/CATV industries. To ensure success, KSA applies a proven, advanced engineering methodology to all projects. KSA has a staff of more than 100, including engineers specializing in today's "building block" technologies such as SONET/SDH, ATM, xDSL, fiber optics, MPEG and PCI. KSA has designed a CompactPCI hot swap solution and is licensing that solution to communications companies looking to bring hot swap capable products to market quickly. KSA's clients include industry leaders such as AT&T, Lucent, Nortel, Cisco Systems, 3COM, Scientific-Atlanta, PictureTel, Hewlett-Packard, Alcatel, Compaq and Motorola, among many others. For further information, visit KSA on the World Wide Web at http://www.ksa1.com. ###

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