Who knows. Read my post on this from just the other day. How many new
technologies get announced and never catch on? Most How many *standards* are
never used in real life? Too many to count.
*If* It becomes an ITU-T standard for modems. And *if* it actually catches
on and gets used, and isn't ignored or bypassed by some other invention,
then we will certainly look at doing it. Asking anyone to decide today is
not realistic. I'm sure some company will leap at this to add another
checkbox to what they do - Livingston does not operate that way. We could
support just about anything, but we don't - because of many reason. Not
the least of which is code bloat reduces performace, it make for more
overhead - therefore more expensive products, and the more lines of code,
the more bugs you will have. Just to start.
Now, even assuming we do support this, at this stage no one knows if the
DSPs in the PM-3 would handle it. No one has seen a real world application
of this technology. They don't even say it it works on PRI or channelized
T1 for example (I bet it does, just one point) or what requirements are on
the equipment. It may be software, it may mean new modems, and in worst
case it may mean a new unit entirely.
This is so new there aren't many answers available. Don't even think about
it until we have some examples of this technology actually working in the
real world, and we get more data on just what it takes to support it. The
article and other info I've seen makes it sound like it is far more than
just a new analog compression system to eek out more speed. Notice the
repeated mention of relying about digital communications links - just
what does that mean? etc etc
I've searched their web and the only data is that marketing heavy - technical
info lite article we saw here. Until they put up more info on how it works
and what exactly it does, everything is pointless speculation. We probably
won't get any meat until after they unveil it at the show.
-MZ
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