Aware, Inc. Hosts Tenth Anniversary Celebration For the ITU-T DSL Standards Committee Q4/15

BEDFORD, Mass., April 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Aware, Inc. (Nasdaq: AWRE), a leading supplier of the DSL technology based on ITU-T Recommendations, today announced that it will sponsor and host a special tenth anniversary event to celebrate the worldwide success of the DSL Recommendations generated by the ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T) Committee Question 4, Study Group 15 (Q4/15) over the past decade. This event will be held this evening, April 18, 2007, in Napa, CA in conjunction with the April 16-20 ITU-T Q4/15 Rapporteur Meeting.

"For the past ten years, Q4/15 has been the organization developing DSL ITU Recommendations that serve as the backbone of the global deployment success of DSL," commented Aware CEO Michael Tzannes. "At its inception in 1997, there were virtually no active DSL lines, but with the efforts of Q4/15 and its Recommendations, today DSL has grown to more than 185 million subscribers worldwide, making DSL the most popular broadband wide area network technology in the world. This group of technology experts has produced a series of Recommendations that have consistently met demanding market requirements for data rates and functionality. These accomplishments were made over a decade of tremendous change in the broadband industry. Multi- megabit ITU standard G.dmt fueled the first widely deployed residential broadband technology for high-speed Internet access over phone lines. Today ADSL2+ and VDSL2 are enabling entertainment-quality services that include Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) and High-Definition Television (HDTV) services that are shaping telephone companies' triple-play offerings worldwide. All of this is made possible by the combination of perseverance and innovation that characterize the Q4/15 group."

"Aware has participated in a leadership role in Q4/15 since its inception, contributing technology innovations based upon our R&D efforts to improve the data rates, functionality, reliability and flexibility of DSL technology," Tzannes continued. "In recognition of this important milestone, we are proud to be hosting the tenth anniversary event to celebrate the success of Q4/15."

About Aware

Aware is a leading supplier of DSL silicon intellectual property and DSL test and diagnostics products. Its StratiPHY^™ IP product line supports DSL standards, including ADSL2+ and VDSL2, and has been broadly licensed to leading semiconductor companies. Telecom equipment vendors and phone companies use Aware's DSL test and diagnostics modules and Dr. DSL^® software to help provision DSL circuits globally. Aware is also a veteran of the biometrics industry, providing biometric and imaging software components used in government systems worldwide since 1992. Aware's interoperable, standard- compliant, field-proven imaging products are used in a number of applications, from border management to criminal justice to medical imaging. Aware has over 140 patents and pending patent applications relating to DSL and other signal processing applications. Aware is a publicly held company (NASDAQ: AWRE) based in Bedford, Massachusetts. www.aware.com

Safe Harbor Warning

Portions of this release contain forward-looking statements regarding future events and are subject to risks and uncertainties, such as estimates or projections of future revenue and earnings and the growth of the DSL and biometrics markets. Aware wishes to caution you that there are factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the results indicated by such statements. The DSL factors include, but are not limited to: we have a unique business model, our quarterly results are difficult to predict, we depend on a limited number of licensees, we derive a significant amount of revenue from a small number of customers, we depend on equipment companies to incorporate our technology into their products, we face intense competition from other DSL vendors, DSL technology competes with other technologies for broadband access, and our business is subject to rapid technological change. We refer you to the documents Aware files from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission, specifically the section titled Risk Factors in our annual report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2006 and other reports and filings made with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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CONTACT: Sarah LaLiberte of Aware, Inc., +1-781-687-0695,
sarahl@aware.com