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To: jhild who wrote (10743)	12/15/1997 7:23:00 PM
From: David Lawrence	Respond to of 22053

Everyone has guaranteed ITU compatability and backwards compatibility with their pre-standard protocol. So, not only do Rockwell OEMs have to adopt the standard (so they can talk to everyone's ITU standard modems), but that have to retain compatibility with the plethura of K56Flex based modems that don't get upgraded to the ITU standard for whatever reason. Something tells me that they will have a difficult time accomplishing that. 3Com, on the other hand, has to maintain compatibility with x2, of which there is only one implementation, and the ITU standard.