ADSL Deal Westell bids to buy Amati Oswego, Ill. -- Westell Technologies Inc. last week made a stock-swap offer for Amati Communications Corp. (Sunnyvale, Calif.), a pioneer in asymmetric digital-subscriber-line (ADSL) technology. ADSL rollout delays have left Amati low on resources. Westell plans to run Amati as a wholly owned subsidiary, with Amati executive and development staffs reportedly remaining. Benjamin Berry, Amati's vice president of marketing, said the acquisition opens a national sales channel and "allows us to complete an ATM interface for our modems." (Next article) (c) 1997 CMP Media, Inc [This article comes from EE Times in a joint cooperative effort with the Motley Fool. For more articles like it, please look at Fool's Gold every weekend or simply go to the Fool's Gold Mine and page through our back issues, which all have clever and cool EE Times articles in them.]

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