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To: Maverick who wrote (12149)	9/12/1997 8:35:00 PM
From: Jeff Mills	of 61433

56K Modem Standard Put On Hold Untill January By Mark Boslet PALO ALTO, Calif. (Dow Jones)--An international standards body has delayed until at least January an agreement that would unify the two incompatible designs of fast 56K modems. The International Telecommunications Union put off until January a vote - or what it calls a determination - on a draft standard because several technical issues remained unresolved, according to a Rockwell International Corp. (ROK) spokesman. There were three major sticking points among ITU members, and the group "just ran out of time," said the spokesman, who attended the meeting. Union members had hoped to hash out a standard to enable x2 modems from 3Com Corp. (COMS) and K56flex modems from companies such as Rockwell, Lucent Technologies Inc (LU) and Motorola Inc. (MOT) to communicate with one another. The 56K modems receive data at a theortical top speed of 56,000 bits per second, almost double the performance of the previous generation of 33.6K modems. The Rockwell spokesman said of the 26 issues unresolved at the start of this week's work sessions, 15 remained open. Of those, three were deemed controversal. The ITU is to meet in Geneva, Switzerland, in January. 3Com officials were not immediately available to comment on the standards meeting.

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