Short Take: Toshiba, Alcatel in ADSL pact

and Alcatel have agreed to a licensing pact for asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL) technology, under which Toshiba will develop, manufacture, and market chipsets which support the transmission of video, Internet services and other high-bandwidth data over conventional telephone lines. Toshiba plans to introduce its first large-scale integrated circuits (LSI) using capabilities licensed from Alcatel in June of 1999.