What is "it" after it has been deployed??
Overblown??
Design trough a committee of customers(ITU) is not a
simple solution, but in the case(s) of telecommunication
it has always won at the end of day.
Without going into the more classic examples, but
just to take one maybe end-user known, the disappearance of
Bell or Racal-Vadic this or that modem, replaced first
by CCITT V.series, now ITU (in 80s)
Btw, some modemcard manufacturers went totally
bankrupt during the transition from proprietary Kflex,
etc,etc to CCITT-ITU V90 for 56k modems. (1995-96??)
Sometimes the fight over dominance leads to almost mutual
bancruptcy for those involved, like Rockwell-Conexant,
Motorola, 3COM. (I believe even Lucent did their best??)
These guys still have the commodity market
quote.yahoo.com
but all totally missed the wireless (DSP) market.
Ilmarinen
Modems were the first to implement Viterbi
decoders,etc, and the coding was "invented" by a
an IBM guy in switzerland, Ungerboeck.(where is IBM??)
Inabilty to open up the copperwire market, R-box, for
competition and DSL hasn't helped much.
(My brother's kids,Hki, use one carrier for voice, another
for ADSL, on the same wire, I started out with an extra
pair for SDSL and an extremely small local internet
provider) |
