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Microcap & Penny Stocks : FRANKLIN TELECOM (FTEL)
FTEL 0.812+6.9%Nov 26 3:59 PM EST
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To: Martin P. Smith who wrote (22297)11/27/1997 2:01:00 PM
From: Atin  Read Replies (1) of 41046
 
Martin: I mentioned software purely because in my experience the software needs to be upgraded, bug-fixed etc a lot quicker than the boards need to be replaced.

Also, I didn't say 96 ports on a board but that will be coming out too. Basically this is Moore's law -- the density of transistors keeps increasing exponentially and this translates to higher density hardware (more ports etc). Your MTBF argument only works if you think of each port as an additional component, but what really happens is that the actual number of components used to manage the same resource becomes smaller as advances in design happen. It happened in PCs, it happened in wristwatches, it is happening in telephony.

Again, it has been my impression that the FTEL Tempest's voice quality is one of a select few at the top of the quality heap. They're good, and I am happy with my investment and not thinking of selling anytime soon. But I am also not looking for them to turn the market upside down yet. They are behind in some parts of the spectrum, ahead in others.

And yes, I have wondered what the technology they use to transfer vocoded data from the DSP board to the datacom is, and how open it etc. I asked the question here, and I will ask an FTEL engineer if I ever get one in front of me.

-Atin
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