Wave Issue 0307 3/14/03 Article 2-01

***CableLabs/YAS Announce Management Transition Plan for
CableLabs' Broadband Access Programs
(March 14)

Following six years of successful YAS leadership over CableLabs'
Broadband Access programs, CableLabs and YAS announced today that
they have begun the transition of management to CableLabs' staff
members. The process, which is targeted for completion at year-
end, will culminate YAS' six-year effort to develop broadband
access technology platforms for the cable industry, which
generated billions of dollars in new revenue to the industry's
bottom line.

Under the direction of Rouzbeh Yassini, the YAS team assisted
CableLabs in developing the first cable interoperability
specification, which enabled the cable modem retail market, a key
factor for the success of broadband services. The YAS team lead
CableLabs to follow the initial DOCSIS specification with three
additional specifications, providing features such as quality of
service (QoS), security, bandwidth, and a host of operator-
focused tools for manageability and scalability.

The YAS team also led CableLabs' efforts to devise, develop,
implement, and manage the industry's first specification
compliance Certification Program to date. The program led to the
certification of over 300 cable modems and the qualification of
over 50 cable modem termination systems for cable operator's
headends.

Following the development of the DOCSIS broadband platform, the
YAS Team was commissioned to lead the CableHome program, and to
advise the PacketCable program at CableLabs. Once more, Rouzbeh's
YAS team achieved success for cable operators with the industry's
first home networking specification, successful certification
programs for both, and the triple-play success of simultaneous
certification and qualification of CableHome, DOCSIS and
PacketCable devices.

CableLabs has named Yassini, Ralph Brown, CableLabs Vice
President and Chief Software Architect, and CableLabs COO Chris
Lammers, to lead the transition team for 2003. Brown formerly
worked at Excite@Home as well as at Time Warner Cable and has
been with CableLabs for a year. Lammers has been CableLabs
Executive Vice President and COO for the past five years.

The YAS team will work closely with CableLabs on the transition
across the course of this year. The transition plan foresees
staff hiring and development in Q2, training and plan
implementation in Q3 and completion in Q4. There will be no
change in the previously announced certification schedule of
three major certification waves and nine short waves for 2003.
CableLabs and the YAS team have placed a high priority on the
continued success of the certification program for 2003 and
beyond, with greatest emphasis on the integrity and efficiency of
this program.

The first set of DOCSIS specifications was announced in March
1997 and CableLabs certified the first set of cable modems in
March 1999. Since that time, specifications established by
CableLabs for DOCSIS, CableHome and PacketCable have been
standardized internationally and devices in each of the projects
have been certified and qualified.

The first certification of CableHome and PacketCable products was
announced in December 2002. CableHome builds upon DOCSIS to
provide the consumer with a secure and managed residential
gateway that can be connected to the cable network via plug-and-
play. PacketCable defines a common platform to deliver real-time
multimedia services over two-way cable plant. Like CableHome, it
is built on the DOCSIS infrastructure. A DOCSIS 1.1 network with
PacketCable extensions enables cable operators to deliver data
and voice traffic using a single high-speed, QoS-enabled
broadband architecture.

YAS Broadband Ventures LLC is committed to advancing the
technical, economical, and social transformations of the emerging
broadband revolution by providing venture capital financing,
consulting services and academic insights to the broadband
industry.

Founded in 1988 by members of the cable television industry,
Cable Television Laboratories is a non-profit research and
development consortium that is dedicated to pursuing new cable
telecommunications technologies and to helping its cable operator
members integrate those advancements into their business
objectives. Cable operators from around the world are members.