[USRX]
<<<I'm not sure if you caught my post shortly after SuperComm '97 but at the Telechoice Symposium on ADSL, sponsored by USRX, I have one quote which I wrote down by Ron Westernik, USRX vice president of marketing for their ADSL division.
"We bought Awares IP (Intellectual Property)"
Now which DSL IP? I don't know, I guess I let my emotions over ride my quest for information, as he was so full of himself in boasting about how USRX basically had the DSL market sewed up. I just got nauseous, also at this point was signaled that the person I had been waiting to talk with from TI, Walter Chen, was now available, and I had been waiting an hour to get a moment of his time.>>>
Jim --
That's the same guy who yelled at me when I phoned to ask questions after the USRX-TI press conference announcing the hybrid modem. After talking to him, I phoned Greg Waters at TI and was treated with enormous courtesy.
Westernek says USR does not have to license from Amati. Waters says the license will have to be obtained by Aware. Even if the C6X has none of Amati's codes on it, if Aware's DMT is ANSI-compliant, they have to pay royalties. That's why ADI and ALA licensing agreements will shake up USR and Aware --- or should.
Why are bozo's like Westernek allowed to deal with the public, anyway?
Cheers!
Pat
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