Ray... great article! Reasons to keep the faith:
<< This week, Rockwell will roll out two versions of a 56K/ADSL chipset, both of which will use Falcon, a technology licensed from PairGain Technologies Inc., Tustin, Calif., that is based on ADSL and Discrete Multitone (DMT) line code.
"Having a DSL [modem] only is not going to be good enough for consumers," said Mike Neshat, director of client DSL products at Rockwell's Personal Computing Division, Newport Beach, Calif. "We believe that [a hybrid 56K/ADSL modem] will be required for the next two years because not every place in the world will offer DSL services."
Rockwell's chipsets support the V.90, full-rate ADSL and G.Lite standards. One of the chipsets is a three-chip solution designed for external modems that incorporates Falcon, an analog IC, and a V.90 device that supports Universal Serial Bus. The other chipset, designed for internal modems, includes Falcon, an analog front-end interface, and a PCI-based ASIC.>> |
