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November 24, 1997, Issue: 192
Section: Connect
56K-bps PC Card Features CardBus --
Production set for '98
By Todd Wasserman
Newport Beach, Calif.-Rockwell Semiconductors trumped rival 3Com by
announcing the first 56K-bps PC card modem that includes CardBus-enabled local-area-network (LAN) capability.
Rockwell plans to begin volume production on the LAN-modem device in the first quarter of 1998. Pricing for original equipment manufacturers will start at $68 per unit in volume quantities. No manufacturers for the product have been announced yet.
Although several other modem manufacturers have released 56K-bps PC
cards with LAN functionality, none has offered ardBus, or 32-bit processing capability.
CardBus, which doubles the capability of the 16-bit PCI bus, allows networking speeds of up to 100M bps. PCI bus speeds top off at around 25Mbps.
3Com, which competes with Rockwell in the 56K-bps modem arena, has yet to release a similar product. It now offers a two-card solution for 56K/CardBus.
In a written statement, Raouf Halim, vice president and general manager of Rockwell's network access division, credited engineering advances for the breakthrough.
"This product represents Rockwell's ongoing progress as we integrate greater levels of networking communications functionality onto ever-smaller pieces of silicon," Halim said.
Copyright (c) 1997 CMP Media Inc.
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