There sure is a lot of money getting put into ADSL; a technology that somebody says doesn't work in an article. Bell Atlantic is rolling out this unworkable technology soon as well. I wonder when all of these top global companies figure out that ADSL has been a scam? They must just be reading the product claims and not testing the products. All of the trials worldwide must be a vast conspiracy to cover up the fact that ADSL doesn't work because of crosstalk problems. Of course, it might mean that one person wrote an article that was BS. It seems it would be far easier to get the facts wrong typing an article in a word processor as opposed to all of these companies getting ADSL wrong with over a year of actual trials having been done with real equipment in real trials. Not only are the following companies showing that they are capable of being duped by this flawed technology that doesn't work, but TI spent millions on it when it bought Amati; pretty damn stupid all of these leading global telecommunications companies.
Tuesday , Sep 8, 1998 Sun-Thu at 18:00 (GMT+3)
Stock Market News
Orckit Comes Top in Deutsche
Telekom Fast Modem Tender
By Adi Mendelson
Orckit has won 50% of Deutsche Telekom's
tender for the supply of ADSL type fast modems
for deployment throughout Germany. Second
place was shared by another Israeli company,
ECI Telecom, and German company Siemens,
which, according to estimates won 25% of the
tender each. The total value of the tender
amounts to tens of millions of dollars.
In the tender, Orckit was bidding against
competitors from all over the world, among them
telecommunications giants such as Alcatel and
Ericsson. Orckit won the tender in conjunction
with its Japanese partner Fujitsu.
It is reported that in internal discussions at
Deutsche Telekom, it was decided several days
ago that the three companies, Orckit, ECI, and
Siemens, would go through to the final stage.
After that, in the last few days, Deutsche
Telekom was in contact with all three
companies, and the precise final winning order
in the tender was only decided today.
The tender involves a contract for installing
70,000 telephone lines, 35,000 of which were
allocated to Orckit. Orckit president Yitzhak
Tamir told "Globes" today that "the fact that two
Israeli companies between them won 75% of the
tender is testimony to the respect in which the
Israeli industry is held."
The importance of the Deutsche Telekom
contract lies in the fact that it is the world's first
significant ADSL tender based on ATM
technology. Of the two existing technologies,
frame relay and ATM, ATM is considered the
more advanced.
Most customers in the field now incline towards
ATM, but the market's direction was
nevertheless not clear until now. Up to now,
Orckit had focused on frame relay, and used
frame relay rather than ATM in the other major
contracts it won this year, with GTE of the US,
and Telia of Sweden.
Orckit sees its win in the tender as recognition
of the company as a world leader in ADSL.
Published by Israel's Business Arena on
September 8, 1998 |
