Bob/All: We hear daily about squabbling going on in the compatibility of hardware and software for the 56k stuff. We hear that Rockwell and Lucent are working on products based on one standard, where US Robotics is developing competing products and standards. The problem is that we want these modems to be able to talk to each other. If a few companies are setting a quote "standard" and USRX setting another, then there is going to be problems in the compat-department. I have heard that the Telecommunications Assoc. is trying to hammer out an interoperability standard sometime this summer, but who know's...and possibly, who cares! We have Compat-for-all. ggg Da! Hurr/Cycl?
But, and no doubt its a serious problem that is looking long term because no one is going to set around and wait or watch the competition come out with something new and set back watching. Its a real disservice to users like ourselves and may be for some time.
But like Raleigh, Bill, and others have said, the Cyclone/Hurricane/Tornado/Twister?/ all will prove that Frank and Company have had their thinking caps on way before this mess started and are prepared to COMPAT & COMPET..$$$ Better/Cheaper/Faster
When we look at articles about 56k speed and questions/surveys there is so much negativity about the actual speed. I recently read an article about 55 users with a survey connecting to the Internet and only 2 actually got on at 28.8....wow!!! thats old stuff to me, I always get on at 28.8 with my local FNET POP in Big "D" area and intend on doing so til I upgrade to 56k sometime later this year I bet.
Here's the thing on speeds of 56k?, we know that analog modems promise 56k speeds over telephone lines but to get these speeds you will need clean phone lines and servers that aren't over loaded. Getting up to those speeds is a problem because analong lines are designed to supress noise at the expense of speed.... So, we ask ourselves, is the Proprietary software/hardware that no doubt sets FTEL/FNET apart from others, going to be able to deliver 56k without problems? I certainly hope so, and if the news gets out about the Compatability of the Cyclone being for real? Wow!!! maybe Frank & Company will be the ones setting the standard. But my feeling is that we really won't know the full impact of this til the IPO of FNET.
These 56k speed problems have been weighing heavily on analyist/industry observers and they are stating no one can deliver 56k. There's not just a few..but alot saying this. It seems to me that most feel "right now" that ISDN is the wave of at least tomorrow, so if someone could please step up to the plate and show the world that 1 800 ISDN service works? Oh yeaaaaa!!!
Last comment but definitely not least. Lets hope that the FCC does not step in with more discussions on whether Internet traffic should be seperate from long-distance telephone charges and that the TIA Telephone Industry Association "does" get this compatibility problem solved soon. Wait!!
On second thought...let these big boys fight it out on standards where FNET has the software to run them all. ggg and a few haha's.
An industry observer of Internet recently said: " I think with 28.8, we got as far as you can realistically expect modem technology to go" "If someone wants to go faster, then they need ISDN. Big PERIOD>. hmmmmmm!
And to think that Frank has had a license plate with "56k" for over 2 1/2 years. I guess it has finally caught up with him. ggg
I would love to see Frank come on and tell us how he views the 56k for a long term standards or is ISDN going to take the lead in the next few years? |
