Re:[Ericsson]
Rob-
Back when Pat & I searched the ends of the earth for any piece on ADSL, DMT, etc. I found the piece below, no URL. The # of articles today, looks nothing like a search in 1Q 96. I'm glad we did the early research, otherwise some of the info would have slipped through our hands, with the mountain of information on DSL there is today. It would be nice if there was one search engine that would search Cyberspace, anyway we wish. You could call it Voyager... is anyone out there.
Do any non-techie's in the group, feel a sense of satisfaction, that you are well informed on The State of the Network, the building blocks that will make the Industrial Revolution look like Lincoln Logs?
Do people look at you like your a nut when you try to discuss what's happening? Weather you own Amati CSCO MSFT SUNW and the beat goes on! Your investing in the Backbone of the Industrial Revolution, only this time around the investing prospects are far greater. Who knows, Pat may own her own country someday.
OK, OK! you wanted to know about those "Amati Inside"
Ericsson Cobra Cable Modems.
Do not have the URL for this piece, I found it last year.
JW@KSC
ADSL receives industry support
Less than one month after Ericsson's launched its Cobra "fast cable modem" system, two rival firms, including Alcatel, have announced their plans to follow suit with their own asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL) offerings. The move comes after news that Bell Canada will be supporting the technology from the end of 1996.
Alcatel has taken the wraps off its ADSL technology, while Amati
Communications has unveiled an Ethernet-compatible ADSL modem that
supports data transfer of 8Mbps.
Officials with Amati, which supplies the main chipsets for Ericsson's Cobra cable modems, said that it has agreed with NEC Japan for the Japanese giant to manufacture the company's second-generation ADSL Ethernet modem for shipment in the first quarter of next year.
Alcatel Network Systems' offering in the ADSL stakes is an ATM-linked
system that will ship in the fourth quarter of this year. According to officials, the ADSL modem interfaces directly with an ATM network node and supports 6Mbps downstream and 500Kbps upstream, coping with interconnection with a 25Mbps ATM network.
US Internet service providers are launching services that benefit from the high data transfer rates of ADSL technology. Teltrend, an Illinois-based ISP will begin offering Internet access using Aware's ADSL modems which includes downstream data rates of 6.4Mbps and upstream rates of 224Kbps.
Basic ADSL modems will cost between $300 and $500 per device, with the
telco installing rack-mounted ADSL devices at the telephone exchange to convert the voice channel for the standard phone network. ADSL allows an ordinary voice call to take place alongside the high-speed data channel, offering data speeds around 10 times that of unaggregated ISDN, yet at a much lower cost. |
