Elsewhere in the DSL world....Cisco, Taiwanese Partners Push ADSL for Speedier 'Net Access.
By Terho Uimonen
IDG News Service, Taipei Bureau
June 8, 1998
Cisco Systems Inc. and Taiwan's Institute for Information Industry (III) late last week agreed to establish a development and testing laboratory here focused on accelerating the adoption of asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL) technology for high-speed Internet access.
The lab will be targeted at helping Taiwanese manufacturers incorporate ADSL technology into their offerings, and ensure that the resulting products will be compliant with international standards as well as with Cisco's ADSL architecture products. Cisco will certify tested products with a mark of interoperability, and hopes that Taiwanese companies will help efforts to speed up the adoption of ADSL by consumers worldwide, the company said in a statement.
ADSL technology lets data be transmitted over existing copper telephone lines at speeds of up to 8M bits per second (bps), as compared to the 56K bps that today's fastest PC modems are capable of, Cisco said.
In addition to Cisco and the government-backed III, six Taiwanese manufacturers -- including Askey Computer Corp., GVC Corp. and Zyxel Communications Corp. -- also signed the agreement backing the ADSL lab.
"Internet applications are a primary, global trend," said Yun Kuo, president of III, in a statement. "It is imperative for Taiwan information companies to further their research and development capabilities in this area."
The ADSL lab is the second time that Cisco has teamed up with III to promote technology transfers and joint research and development efforts between itself and Taiwanese manufacturers. The result of the first collaboration -- the Networked Multimedia Lab -- was announced last summer and opened its doors here in March of this year.
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