EmailUpdate Feb 2003

*** 2002 trends in the WAN interface market ***
Refocus of SONET Applications Including Automatic Protection Switching (APS)
Increased Interest in Lower Speed Conventional WAN
SURPRISE! The Emergence of E3 Opportunities

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2002 Trends

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NComm continued to execute its business strategy by adding additional WAN protocols to those already supported. E3, SONET Linear APS, and extended support for TR-008 were completed in the spring of 2002.

A major maintenance release that greatly increases TMS software's flexibility for engineering those increasing complex and dense offerings was completed the first week of February, 2003.

Also, SDH TMS including Linear APS was made available last week on Valentine's Day.

Bill Matern, NComm founder and president, authored an article about the resurgence of T1. The text of his discussion can be found at Phone+ Magazine.

NComm has been selected by Motorola to participate in the Motorola Design Alliance program. This program was established to assist Motorola's customers connect with "top-notch" design resources to achieve the best solutions for their products.

The standards involved with wide area networks are key to our business and the success of your equipment. NComm Founder and President Bill Matern was asked to chair a T1M1 ad hoc committee. Every 5 years, the standards must be revised. It is time for T1.231 to be updated to reflect accumulated clarifications and modifications. Bill's background, beginning with hardware and software design at ATT/Bell Labs, and his current leadership of NComm make him well suited for the position.

In Q4 2002 NComm and Dallas/Maxim announced the industry's first total T3/E3 solution, an integrated hardware/software product that enables equipment vendors to easily add T3 and/or E3 interfaces to their platforms.

Dallas/Maxim has recently released devices that directly apply to these active product areas. See newly released devices.

Dallas/Maxim's upcoming telecom offerings include devices that accommodate the increasing need for conserving board space while increasing functionality. More about these can be found here.

NComm's next products will include delivery of Ring APS models and accommodating additional technologies to make your WAN interface development as fast, cost effective and of the highest possible quality. We will be happy to talk about your specific needs. Call us!

Dallas/Maxim offers a complete line of communication products that fulfill the demands of the rapidly growing telecommunications world. Our state-of-the-art products pack density, versatility and performance in a small package. Dallas/Maxim devices provide highly integrated solutions for applications including T- and E-carrier, broadband, wireless base stations, optical and copper Internet infrastructure, DSL access equipment, voice-over-IP and a wide variety of other high-speed applications around the world. Our products include high performance line interface units (LIUs), multi-port framers, and high-density single chip transceivers (SCTs). Visit our web site at www.maxim-ic.com/telecom.

NComm continues to offer an expanding set of Wide Area Network telecom source code (TMS), and custom consulting services, that completely address all of the overhead functions needed to place and maintain a WAN interface in the network. Included in this are Configuration, Alarms, Maintenance/Performance Monitoring and CAS signaling. We do this for any framer device, RTOS and processor you decide to design with. Prior to 2002, full support was offered for T1, E1, T3 and SONET. Last year we added E3 as well as Linear Automatic Protection Switching for SONET.

TMS users experience very fast implementation times. Once debugged hardware is available, typical integration time is few days or a few hours. There is no faster way to produce a standard compliant, fully functioning WAN interface.

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