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To: DRRISK who wrote (10435)	11/17/1997 7:25:00 PM
From: Pancho Villa	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 45548

TO ALL: November 17, 1997 Northern Telecom, Rockwell To Offer Faster Modem Service By STEPHANIE N. MEHTA Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Northern Telecom Ltd. and Rockwell International Corp. are teaming up to offer a new modem service that will allow users to connect to on-line services at least 17 times as fast as is capable today. The partnership, which the companies announced Monday, calls for Rockwell, based in Seal Beach, Calif., to make computer chips for the new modem; Nortel, a telecommunications-equipment maker based in Toronto, will supply the "central office" technology that local phone companies must install to make the modems work. Such a system would enable the Baby Bells to provide high-speed connections cheaply and easily, Nortel said. Nortel said it developed a low-cost "line card" that phone carriers can install at their end, instead of rewiring the customer's home, to enable the faster data transmissions. The Bells have been slow to offer high-speed connections to consumers, often forcing residential customers to wait months for fast hookups. Though the cards are compatible with Nortel equipment today, the company said it soon will license the technology so that it will work with competitors' switches. The modem service, designed by Nortel, can move data at a rate of one million bits per second, compared with the currently available top speed of 56,000 bits a second. Nortel said the modems would be commercially available in the second half of 1998. By working together, Nortel and Rockwell said they hope to set the technical standards for one-megabit modems. Such standards enable modems from different manufacturers to "talk" to each other at high speeds. Nortel said it originally planned to make the one-megabit modem itself. By establishing the partnership with chip-maker Rockwell, Nortel increases the chances that the service will gain acceptance by other modem makers and computer manufacturers. Is this somekind of DLS technology? Pancho