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To: sepku who wrote (22733)	11/11/1997 6:38:00 PM
From: joshi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 61433

RE: ATT--> techstocks.com

To: sepku who wrote (22733)	11/11/1997 6:57:00 PM
From: Pullin-GS	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 61433

I would think that AT&T would incorporate 56Kflex at some point (and probably are presently) buy purchasing additional comm-servers that support it. It could not be on a scale as supported currently by their existing infrastructure of COMS comm-servers. To support K56Flex on this scale would require the total swap out of COMS equipment, for 56KFLEX is not compatable with COMS equipment due to current licencing restrictions. Open standards are not licencable, they are published specs distributed freely for vendors to adhere to, unlike Rockwell's/Lucent's Implementation. The idea that a vendor must pay a fee to use it in a chip, or must buy the chip from a specific vendor will never be a standard. The ITU-T, ANSI, and IEEE will decide on a set of standards that will make up a unit-standard know as the 56K half-duplex Standard. This is how it has been done in the past. Regards, Paul