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Technology Stocks : COMS & the Ghost of USRX w/ other STUFF -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: David Lawrence who wrote (10179)	12/4/1997 6:02:00 PM
From: Scrapps	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 22053

You da crap expert! Because you sniffed that out way long ago. Btw is it Nortel or Lucent who is going for ASND....OR none of the above? I heard both names mentioned on the tube.

To: David Lawrence who wrote (10179)	12/5/1997 10:28:00 PM
From: goldsnow	Respond to of 22053

Modem Standards Battle - Who's Winning? 12/05/97 Newsbytes, Friday, December 05, 1997 at 15:25 ORLANDO, FLORIDA, U.S.A., 1997 DEC 5 (NB) -- By Bob Woods, Newsbytes. Rockwell International's [NYSE:ROK] Semiconductor Systems division claimed a big win for its "K56flex" high-speed analog modem technology - one developed with Lucent Technologies [NYSE:LU] - in the battle for a standard in the 56 kilobits per second (Kbps) arena. But Lucent officials claimed that equal parts of K56flex and 3Com's [NASDAQ:COMS] competing "x2" technology will make up the standard. Players in the 56Kbps modem battle met in Orlando, Florida this week to discuss a high-speed standard (Newsbytes, Dec. 3, 1997). A committee of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) has been working on standards for such units, called high-speed pulse code modulation (PCM) modems, since last March. The eventual standard will be called "V.pcm." Rockwell and Lucent officials announced Friday that the ITU committee on Thursday okayed a "declaration of consensus," and that both companies supported the declaration. But that's where the agreement ends between the two companies. Vijay Parikh, vice president and general manager for Rockwell's Personal Computing Division, said that the decision "represents an overwhelming endorsement of K56flex-supported technologies. In addition, this progress should enable formal ratification of a worldwide standard in September of 1998." But Surinder Rai, marketing director for Lucent's Microelectronics Group, said that "It looks like the standard will contain an equitable mix of K56flex and x2, the two competing PCM modem technologies." "A spirit of compromise emerged during (Thursday's) meeting and now the industry is free to move towards what consumers really want -- interoperability of modems around the world," Rai also said. The attitude Rai mentioned about this week's meeting is a stark contrast to one held last September, when participating companies could not reach a draft for the modem standard, Newsbytes notes. Both companies said a draft recommendation of the declaration of consensus is expected at a meeting that runs from January 26 to February 6, 1998, and that the ITU is expected to ratify the standard in September of next year. One group that will not lose out in the standards battle is consumers. Both camps have promised free upgrade paths to the impending standard for those people who bought 56Kbps modems with proprietary technology. In the meantime marketing machines from both camps are cranking out messages that one type of technology is supported more by online services and Internet service providers (ISPs) than the other. A consumer's and an ISP's high speed technology must be alike -- x2 to x2 or K56flex to K56flex -- to achieve speeds up to 53Kbps, which is the maximum allowed by law in the US. After a standard is adopted, a Lucent-supported modem will be able to "talk" to one with a 3Com license, Newsbytes notes. As of Friday early afternoon, 3Com had not said anything publicly regarding the Orlando meeting. 3Com officials could not be immediately reached for comment on this story. 3Com acquired x2 developer US Robotics earlier this year, Newsbytes notes. Reported By Newsbytes News Network: newsbytes.com . (19971205/Press Contacts: Eileen Algaze, Rockwell Semiconductor Systems, 714-221-6894, e-mail: eileen.algaze@rss.rockwell.com; Carolyn Fromm or Lisa Theilmann, The Benjamin Group for Rockwell, 714-245-7500; Charlie Hartley, 908-508-8226, e-mail: cjhartley@lucent.com, or Michael Jacobs, 908-508-8225, e-mail: mejacobs@lucent.com, both of Lucent Technologies; Sara Powers, 3Com, 847-982-5066)