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AT&T PARADYNE RASDL
Unit offers fast Internet access method
LARGO, Fla. - AT&T Paradyne said today it achieved what it called an industry breakthrough that will enable
customers worldwide to have much faster Internet access along with simultaneous voice service on a single
phone line.
The AT&T unit said new GlobeSpan Rate Adaptive Digital Subscriber Line (RADSL) technology produces
data transmission speeds up to 400 times faster than a 14.4 kilobit per second modem, which is the average speed
currently of most PC modems.
It said telecom equipment manufacturers are now licensing GlobeSpan RADSL technology as the basis for a
new generation of high-speed Internet access and data services products.
Viewing graphics over the Internet, which can require waits of several minutes to display using a 14.4 kilobits per
second modem, could appear in less than one second with RADSL products, AT&T said.
The technology is designed to rival competing technology known as cable modems which allows high-speed
Internet access over coaxial cables now used to transmit cable television signals.
Such products are now offered or under development by companies like Hewlett-Packard, U.S. Robotics, Zenith
Electronics and others.
The GlobeSpan RADSL offers varying transmission speeds depending on whether the transmission is traveling
to or from a user's modem.
As a result, RADSL can transmit information "downstream" into a home or business at rates of 600 kilobits to 7
megabits per second, and "upstream," or from the user's modem to the outside world, at a return rate of 128
kilobits to 1 megabit.
The company said GlobeSpan RADSL products will be available in August 1996. Initially, these products will
have downstream transmission data rates up to 2.3 megabits per second and upstream data rates up to one
megabit per second.
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