Aware, Inc. engages in the development and marketing of digital subscriber line (DSL) technology for silicon intellectual property, and test and diagnostics hardware and software products. Its DSL technology is used by telephone companies to deliver high speed data over their copper telephone networks, as well as focuses on asymmetric DSL and very high speed DSL. The company also licenses silicon intellectual property to semiconductor companies that build integrated circuits for the DSL industry. In addition, it sells DSL test and diagnostics hardware and software products to pre-qualify, monitor, and troubleshoot DSL services. Further, the company offers biometrics and imaging applications, which address a range of functionalities, including enrollment of fingerprints and facial images, identification personalization and reading, and networking primarily in government systems. It sells its products to original equipment manufacturer suppliers of automated test equipment comprising manufacturers of test-heads and handheld testers, as well as to telephone companies and network equipment suppliers in the United States, Germany, and internationally. The company was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Bedford, Massachusetts.