Old news/ new PR
Know you've seen this but seems like someone ought to post it here...
Picked up a copy today of the Oct BYTE issue on which the latest orctf pr which follows is based...pretty thin gruel...Orctf claims of "best performance" seem like something of a stretch... The mag itself "declined to choose a best ADSL winner"... because the.. "ADSL technology is too immature"... etc... tho orctf did have the best throughput.
The tests were conducted by NSTL (National Software Testing Laboratories Inc.)...BYTE magazine and NSTL are both operating units of the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc..."Evaluations in this report (BYTE) represent the judgement of BYTE editors, based on tests conducted by NSTL, Inc, as documented in a recent issue of its monthly PC Digest." p. 82
As bill c. on the wstl thread noted, this info is/seems like old news first published (more comprehensively) in June tele.com:
"DSL Modems: Are We There Yet?"...Tele.com and NSTL modem tests...30 DSL vendors were invited, eight supplied product: Ariel, Aware, Orckit, Netspeed (results left out of BYTE), Paradyne, Pairgain, Performance, and Westell... Amati "did not participate this time around (tests were Round 2) because its product hadn't changed in the interim..." (Round 1 -oct 96: amtx, pair, orctf) which implies i suppose that orckits and pairgains had...maybe the orckit modem tested in round 2 had the current oakdspcore/LSI chip?
teledotcom.com
Seems like orctf missed a pr opportunity in June, and decided better late than never... stretching interpretation of results seems somewhat out of character tho...
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"Orckit ADSL Modems Lead With Best Performance in BYTE
Magazine xDSL Tests
FOLSOM, Calif., Sept. 24--Orckit Communications (Nasdaq: ORCTF) announced today that in a recent test of ADSL modems, Orckit's modems achieved the best performance among seven xDSL vendors who participated in the testing.
Test results were published by BYTE magazine in a feature appearing in the October 97 issue, which explores higher bandwidth connectivity options, including 56K modems, ISDN and ADSL.
To test how ADSL modems would perform in a more realistic operating scenario, both packet-blast tests and multiple FTP (File Transfer Protocol) -- session tests were conducted. To simulate a typical World Wide Web connection, a single computer accessed the Web by opening several concurrent IP sessions with a mixture of
FTP and HTTP. Under these conditions, the Orckit modems transmitted data at faster than 6 Mbps, and performed with the best throughput of all the tested modems.
Of the many xDSL vendors invited to submit equipment, seven agreed to participate in the testing. The reported evaluation was based on tests conducted by NSTL (National Software Testing Laboratories Inc.).... "
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