Acknowledgments

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A great many leading experts generously assisted the creation of this book. Grateful acknowledgment is given to Dr. Martin Pollakowski for his thorough review of the manuscript and many helpful suggestions. The authors also thank the following people for their valuable contributions: from Globespan/Virata: Amrish Patel, George Dobrowski, Ehud Langberg, Bill Scholtz, Patrick Duvalt, and Eli Tzanhany; from Centillium: Les Brown; and from Valo, Inc.: Gary Fox.

Chapter 3 benefited from the help of Syed Abbas of Centillium, Inc., Art Carlson, Howard Levin, Les Humphrey, Jim Carlo, Daniel Gardan, Krista Jacobsen, Louise Hoo, Evangelos Eleftheriou, Frederic Gauthier, Aurelie Legaud, Fabienne Moulin, Sedat Olcer, Giovanni Cherubini, Meryem Ouzzif, Frank van der Putten, Dimitris Toumpakaris, Wei Yu, Nick Zogakis, and Ranjan Sonalkar.

Chapter 7 benefited from the help of Jeannie Fang, Krista Jacobsen, Jungwon Lee, George Ginis, Wei Yu, Steve Zeng, Frank Sjoberg, Rickard Nilsson, Mikael Isaksson, Jacky Chow, Giovanni Cherubini, Evangelos Eleftheriou, Sedat Olcer, Behrooz Rezvani, Sigurd Schelestrate, Thierry Pollet, Vladimir Oksman, J.J. Werner, D. Mesdagh, C. Del-Toso, and K. Hasegawa.

Chapter 8 benefited from the help of Larry Brown of SBC, Inc.

Chapter 11 benefited from the help of G. Ginis, S. T. Chung, W. Yu, D. Gardan, S. Zeng, C. Aldana, J. Lee, A. Salvekar, J. Lee, W. Rhee, W. Choi, K.W. Cheong, J. Fan, N. Wu, B. Rezvani, Ioannis Kanellakopoulos, S. Shah, Michail Tsatsanis, R. Sonalkar, R. Miller, G. Cherubini, V. Poor, G. Zimmerman, G. Al-Rawi, K. Foster, T. Pollet, C. del-Toso, S. Schelesratte, N. Nazari, M. Alba, K. Kim, K. Hasegawa, N. Mihito, and Y. Kim.

Chapter 12 benefited from the help of Dave Alm, Don R. House, and Frederick J. Kiko of Excelcus, Inc.

Appendix A benefited from the help of Jeff Neumann and John Rozema of SBC, Inc.

Appendix B features Matthew and Marilynn Starr and benefited from the help of Marilynn Starr, who proofread many chapters.

The cover art is derived from a photograph of a tapestry named Jeu d'espirit ; it was designed and woven by Gretchen Starr.

The DSL Forum is thanked for permission to use information from its Technical Reports, especially in preparing the content of Chapters 13 and 14.

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