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Fujitsu Access Limited and Metalink Partner to Provide 100 Mbps VDSLPlus(TM) Products to the Japanese Broadband Market

Posted on: Tuesday, 23 March 2004, 06:00 CST

TOKYO and YAKUM, Israel, March 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Metalink Ltd. , a global provider and developer of high performance wireline and wireless broadband communication silicon solutions and Fujitsu Access Limited, today announced that the companies have partnered to develop the fastest DSL platform incorporating Metalink's VDSLPlus 4th generation chipset for the Japanese broadband market.

Metalink's VDSLPlus solution, powered by Geryon-II Quad CO chipset and Xanthus-III+ CPE chipset, provides 5 band VDSL implementation with a smooth migration to 6 band solution, which will make fiber-speed of 100 Mbps symmetric communication a reality. Over 100 Mbps downstream payload is provided at 300m using the stricter "ADSL Friendly" mask enabling combined deployment of ADSL and VDSL in the same cable plant.

"After a thorough evaluation of the performance and availability of VDSL chipsets in the market, we have selected Metalink's VDSLPlus chipsets for our access products portfolio, which will enable Fujitsu Access to address the immediate demand for 100 Mbps VDSL deployment by FTTH service providers across Japan," said Kazuo Yamaguchi, Executive Director at Fujitsu Access. "Metalink has again proven its leadership in terms of robust performance and availability, and Metalink's technology is ideally suited for Fujitsu Access' products for the extremely competitive broadband market in Japan."

"We are proud to have been selected by a world class telecom equipment vendor such as Fujitsu Access," said Tzvi Shukhman, Metalink's Chairman and CEO. "This cooperation has the potential to yield significant business results within a short time-frame."

About Fujitsu Access

Fujitsu Access Limited develops and manufactures a wide range of high-quality telecommunications, electronics and power control equipment.

Fujitsu Access is concentrating on the product development corresponding to FTTH, ADSL and VDSL services.

Fujitsu Access catches the current to the ubiquitous broadband times sensitively, unites abundant know-how of a communication system and high-speed metallic transmission technology, optical transmission technology, and the Internet technology, and provides the communication entrepreneur with the latest broadband access system. Drawing on its technological prowess in providing highly reliable leading-edge products, Fujitsu Access meets the challenge for increasingly advanced information and communications needs. Fujitsu Access continuously illustrates the future of the ubiquitous society. Further information is available at http://www.access.fujitsu.com/

About Metalink

Metalink Ltd. is a global provider and developer of high performance wireline and wireless broadband communication silicon solutions for telecommunication, networking and home broadband equipment makers. Metalink's silicon solutions address key elements of the "broadband home" market through cost effective, very high-speed delivery of broadband applications over public, home and enterprise networks. Metalink's wireline DSL products enable network operators to offer broadband services over ATM, TDM, and Ethernet-IP copper infrastructure. Leading OEMs and operators in Asia, North America and Europe have chosen to deploy Metalink's VDSL, SHDSL, and HDSLx products. Metalink's wireless solutions, MIMO-based WLANPlus(TM), are designed to meet the ever-increasing demand for wireless LAN speed and reach, critical for home and office multi-media applications. Metalink, a fabless semiconductor company, is headquartered in Yakum, Israel and has subsidiaries in Folsom, California and in Seoul, South Korea, and offices in Yokohama, Japan, Atlanta, Georgia and Tampa, Florida. Further information is available at http://www.metalinkbb.com/.

This press release contains "forward-looking" information within the meaning of the United States securities laws that involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward looking statements. Additional factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from these forward-looking statements are set forth from time to time in Metalink's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including Metalink's Annual Report in Form F-20. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements. The Company undertakes no obligation to republish or revise forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof or to reflect the occurrences of unanticipated events. The Company cannot guarantee future results, events, and levels of activity, performance, or achievements. The Company does not assume a duty to update or revise any of the forward-looking statements as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

Metalink Ltd.

CONTACT: Eric Rosenberg, Marketing Communications Manager of MetalinkLtd., +972-9-9605438, fax: +972-9-9605544, ericr@metalinkBB.com; or CarlHymans, Investor Relations of G.S. Schwartz & Co. Inc., +1-212-725-4500, fax:+1-212-725-9188, carlh@schwartz.com, for Metalink Ltd.

Web site: http://www.metalink.co.il/http://www.access.fujitsu.com/

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