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To: Pigboy who wrote (8951)	1/14/1998 8:14:00 PM
From: bill c.	Respond to of 21342

Pigboy: >> Does a scenario like this sound likely? Would it be really easy to do, switching different individual modems on the same DSLAM to different 'weights'? << According to James Collinge, access marketing manager for TI, the DSP approach also holds benefits for service providers, in that systems can be developed to support multiple customers that are at different service levels and even support dynamic changing of service levels on a per-customer basis. "If I'm a customer that is usually happy with a 56K [kilobit-per-second] modem, but on one day a week, I need to download a major file and want to do that at higher speeds, my service provider could let me upgrade for that day and would be able to bill me accordingly," he says. Finally, Faw says, DSP holds the promise of being able to upgrade the xDSL system from one flavor to another -- a capability that has become more important as the versions of xDSL have proliferated. With a DSP able to handle 1.6 billion MIPS -- or million instructions per second -- as the TI TMF320C6X can, there is even the possibility of a DSP powerful enough to support both modulation codes currently used for ADSL -- DMT and Carrierless Amplitude Phase modulation. "From an engineering standpoint you could do it," says Collinge. There is a strong chance, says TeleChoice Inc. President Daniel Briere, that TI's move could have major repercussions for the ASIC-based players, including Alcatel Network Systems Inc., with its internal chip source, Alcatel Mitec; Analog Devices Inc., with partner Aware Inc.; Motorola; and Orckit Communications Inc.... zdnet.com Telechoice can add Pairgain to that ASIC-based list... until later.