Re: (PM) Modem Code
Tim Tsai (tim@futuresouth.com)
Tue, 6 Apr 1999 03:47:08 -0500
> Actually there are more than 4 NAS vendors. I can think of 7 offhand and I'm
> sure there are more than that. However there are to my admittedly limited
> knowledge only 4 manufacturers of chipsets for modems, Lucent, Rockwell, TI
> and Cirrus (woops forgot PCTel if you can call that a modem so that makes 5).
> I don't know about Cirrus but in all other cases it appears that the modem code
> is written by the manufacturers and adapted by the modem manufacturer by doing
> things like adding their name. So aplying your argument it would actually be
> simpler for the NAS manufacturers to fix their end.
There is also Analog Devices and Motorola. Analog Devices is also
available for the server end (although I don't know any company using
them in a current generation product). Rockwell pretty much dominates
on the NAS side as far as I can tell.
Tim
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