Dwight, are you sure Ejabat said "Ascend will be the first...to the desktop"?? Maybe you'd better read the press release:
"Alameda, CA, November 5, 1996 -- Ascend Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ:ASND) and Rockwell Semiconductor Systems, Newport Beach, Calif., today announced a joint development effort to deliver a fully integrated ***central-site*** modem solution supporting 56kbps transmission speeds. The solution, based on Rockwell's 56kbps technology, called K56PLUS, and the Ascend MAX WAN access switch architecture, will allow ISPs to market high-speed 56kbps transmission
services to analog-based end-users and customers, while providing support for the full complement of integrated WAN services already available on Ascend MAX and MAX TNT platforms -- conventional analog, ISDN, SW56, and frame relay. The product is expected to ship in January 1997.
According to Ascend, no other WAN access product on the market delivers a more comprehensive set of connectivity options. Offering its customers an easy upgrade path, starting November 1, Ascend will ship the first in a family of ***central site modems*** capable of supporting Rockwell's new K56PLUS technology.
"Ascend plans to be the first remote access vendor to actually deliver on the promise of 56kbps technology," says Mory Ejabat, Ascend president and CEO. "We believe this technology can open the door for a new generation of high-performance Internet and remote-access applications, so our goal is to provide the most robust implementation and the earliest deployment. Through our partnership with Rockwell, we are not just the first vendor to deliver this technology, but, more
significantly, we have delivered the right technical solution for a very complex transmission challenge."
So, do you see desktop anywhere in there? You DO see the central site specified, not the desktop. That's Ascend's ballpark, not your Pentium 133 or whatever. Maybe you ought to rethink the aspersions cast on Ascend's CEO.
Dee Jay |
