Austin, TX USA – January 7, 2002 – Broadframe Corporation, an innovation company providing Telecom Test and Measurement equipment, announced today the world’s first In-Line DSL Protocol Analyzer. The Broadframe DSLscope is a powerful, compact unit that enables decoding and debugging of data protocols over a live DSL connection.

"The DSLscope provides, for the first time, the ability to evaluate and decode the data running inside the DSL connection," said Mike Trujillo, Broadframe President. "The DSLscope is a valuable tool to engineers involved with DSL because they no longer have to guess what’s happening between the DSLAM and the Customer Premise Equipment (CPE). DSL Developers, testers, and installers will be more productive by focusing quickly on solving problem rather than speculating on the cause."

Broadframe’s DSLscope is the only DSL protocol analyzer that operates in-line on the copper loop. DSLscope records all traffic between the DSLAM and CPE transparently, records raw ATM cells (AAL0, AAL2, etc), and reconstructs the AAL5 packets. TCP/IP, PPP, and all of the major DSL encapsulation schemes (RFC 1483/2684 LLC/SNAP, RFC 2364 PPPoA, RFC 2316 PPPoE) are supported.

ADSL ITU 992.X Annex A is supported; Annex B is under development. Other technologies such as G.shdsl and VDSL are planned.

The DSLscope product line is the second family from Broadframe and focuses on in-line evaluation and analysis. Broadframe’s original product family, Liberator, provides network simulation to DSL developers.

Applications

DSLscope is very useful in troubleshooting DSL line connections. Visibility into the data stream will speed up installation.

Interoperability and conformance testing applications will find DSLscope useful to ensure encapsulation schemes are equivalent across platforms.

DSL equipment developers can use DSLscope to record data traffic and decode, evaluate, and analyze data protocols on the DSL wire.

About Broadframe

Broadframe Corporation, based in Austin Texas, delivers network-level broadband tools for cost-effective development, test, and demonstration of broadband products. The Broadframe charter is to provide easy-to-use tools that reduce the complexity and cost of broadband product development, demonstration and deployment. You can learn more about Broadframe by visiting www.broadframe.com.

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