In fact, royalty revenue will likely continue to rise above its current percentage of total revenues of 42 percent because of the increasing number of DSL deployments and the increasing number of companies using Aware's technology. Royalties as a percentage of revenues have already dramatically increased from 4 percent of sales in 1998 and 21 percent in 1999 to 42 percent in Aware's most recent quarter. A second reason for Aware's operating success has been the immense size and reach of its customers. The more those companies grow their presence in the DSL industry, the more opportunities that Aware has for licenses and royalties. G.lite ADSL is popular with consumers because it offers much faster download speeds than upload speeds.
Consumers normally download substantially more than they upload.
However, ADSL is vulnerable to service problems if a phone or answering machine is added to the home. G.lite eliminates the need for truck rolls because it does not use a splitter and it allows for the addition of new devices like phones and answering machines to the home without any significant loss of performance. With G.lite, users can simply plug the G.lite-enabled modem into their wall. G.lite is exactly what the DSL industry needs. The industry needs something as easy to use as a regular phone modem and G.lite should fit that bill.