[ATM & ADSL]
Found some short articles on ADSL on techwire for Jan 13th, Plus a few more if you do an advanced search from Jan 1, 97 to today....
Here's one I had not seen......
January 06, 1997, Issue: 644
DATAFLOW
By
Ameritech Corp., BellSouth Corp., Pacific Bell and Southwestern Bell have reached agreement with Alcatel Telecom on multiyear contracts for ADSL equipment. The values of the separate agreements were not released. ... ADC Telecommunications Inc. has acquired the wireless infrastructure equipment group of Pacific Communication Sciences Inc. for about $23 million. ... The Data Over Cable System Interface Specification working group has developed interoperability specs for cable modems. ... MFS Communications Co. Inc. and Uunet
Technologies Inc. plan to roll out an xDSL service by March. The service is being jointly developed with Ascend Communications Inc., which is supplying equipment for the service. General DataComm Industries Inc. said MFS has been testing GDC's Colossas central-office-based access switch for its xDSL service. ... Northern Telecom Inc. has developed a new protocol, called Nortel I-Link, that will provide Internet users with a permanent, direct, digital 128-kilobit-per-second connection to the Internet plus regular telephone voice service, both delivered simultaneously over a single standard telephone line. ... Cascade Communications Corp. has released a T1/E1 ATM card for its CBX 500 ATM switch. ... AT&T is evaluating its investment in LIN Television, which could result in the sale of some or all of the 13.5 million shares of LIN stock AT&T holds. ... ACT Networks Inc. has announced the FX-1000, a central-office-class voice-over-frame-relay switch. ...Motorola Inc.'s Cellular Infrastructure Group claims to be the first vendor to deliver CDMA-based Short Message Services. ... GTE Corp. has introduced CyberPOP, a data-aggregation service that provides central-office-based remote access for Internet and online service providers, creating a "point of presence" for companies that operate in, or near, the 28-state region that GTE serves. |
