>Also, the analysts seem to think that USR has a 6 month jump on
>Rockwell/Lucent, and as it is a flash process with USR (as opposed to
>a hardware swap for Rockwell/Lucent hosts) widescale deployment of x2
>will be much, much faster. Probably on the order of a full year in
>many areas.
We all know that USR has hyped 56K technology more than Rockwell/Lucent.
But seeing how no one is actually shipping 56K, its difficult to assess how
much of an advantage USR might or might not have. IMHO, my gut tells me
that they are probably slightly ahead, but not a year.
>Lastly is the problem of when a standard is agreed upon, many
>rockwell/Lucent users will have to upgrade their hardware again, with
>USR it is a flash. Even if they pull off a flash process, that is new
>to many of them (not USR), and they will be fighting those issues
>along with catching up on 56K technology.
Not true. Lucent supports flash upgrades from V.flex2 to the eventual ITU
standard, and the Rockwell RC56CSM has the same upgrade path. As far as the
flash process, many modem manufacturers currently use flash successfully
(including Livingston ;-)). And if you peel back the 56K technology onion,
you will find that everyones implementation is about the same. The only
real difference is Lucent's upstream of 45Kbps, downstreams are all
identical modulation schemes.
-- Marty Likier Product Marketing Mgr. marty@livingston.com