Re: Digital Modems & 56K (fwd)

Jacob Suter (jsuter@intrastar.net)
Mon, 23 Sep 1996 02:45:44 -0500

> >livingston offer any kind of reassurances that this brand new
offering
> >isn't worthless in a year in terms of offering a premier capability
> >connection ?
>
> None at all - since *no one* really knows what they are doing. They
> haven't announced anything concerning the technology so far. As the
> press release says, they will debut at Comdex.

I'm getting a growing suspition Rockwell doesn't know what they are
doing. 56K Async might work on 3 wire off a digital switch (two wires
for signaling, one for timing), or a line sampled at 64K-2bit (128K)...
I don't see telcos running out and buying analog hardware thats gonna
work for this.

Analog is dead.. And hell, I live in an all-analog area. No ISDN,
channelized T1 will work out here, but no clear channel circuits (56K
per DS0 max)..

So folks, lets see working standards from Rockwell before we start
bitching that its not supported.

TTYL
JS