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To: Scrapps who wrote (2331)	1/16/1998 10:17:00 PM
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Re: USRX-TI Relationship Scrapps, from an old (97) PC Comp article... The chip is expected to be incorporated into the next generation of U.S. Robotics Corp.'s DSLAM (Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer) product due out next year, according to officials at the Skokie, Ill., company. U.S. Robotics is expected to ship the initial version of its DSLAM in the third quarter. The chip set will give U.S. Robotics' DSLAM the capability to support both Carrierless Amplitude Phase Modulation technology as well as Discrete Multitone Technology, officials added. Other remote access server makers, including Cisco Systems Inc., Shiva Corp. and Cascade Communications Corp., have not committed to using the chip. Other markets for the C6x include access concentrators, xDSL modems and cable modems. In addition, wireless bay stations, currently the size of a small shed (about 10 feet square) could be reduced to a shoe-box-size structure, vastly improving current wireless infrastructures. As a result, bay stations could be installed on top of street lights or buildings with relative ease, for example, and users would gain an improved, more ubiquitous wireless connectivity option. It almost sounds too good to be true, but one analyst said the TI DSP (digital- signal processor) holds great promise. "[With the C6x,] it's as close as I've come to describing a DSP chip as 'revolutionary,'" said Will Strauss, president of Forward Concepts Inc., in Tempe, Ariz. "But they will have competition." Lucent Technologies Inc. is working on a similar product, and the Intel Corp. P7 may have VLIW on it, Strauss said. Neither Lucent nor Intel would comment on forthcoming products. Although many users associate DSP chips with modems, Strauss noted that they are also well-fitted to audio and video applications.