YAKUM, Israel -- Metalink Ltd., a leader provider of high performance broadband access chipsets, today announced that Wistron Corp. (formerly Acer Inc.'s Design, Manufacturing, and Services operation), has selected Metalink’s QAM four band standard compliant VDSL products Geryon and Xanthus-II for its IP DSLAM Product Family. This will be an addition to Wistron’s wide portfolio of broadband products supporting the convergence of voice, video and data including DSL and Ethernet access.

"Metalink’s QAM VDSL will allow us to enhance our broadband product offering in order to address the demand for profitable very high speed access services. Using Metalink technology we will be able to offer our customer unprecedented bandwidth at a very compelling cost structure while meeting the strictest specification of quality required in such mass markets," said Mr. Francis Huang, Wistron Nexus President. "Wistron achieved US$2.2B in OEM business revenue in 2001 ranking the company among the top global ODM-OEM suppliers. Our selection of Metalink Technology is part of our strategy to achieve global leadership within the electronics and communications fields."

Metalink Ltd.