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To: JDN who wrote (5660)	5/5/1998 4:13:00 PM
From: Jurgen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 6980

Newsletter from my IP -------------------------------------- AWOD Newsletter for May 1998 In this issue: (...) 56K MODEM UPGRADE We have mentioned in the past several newsletters that we have been waiting for our vendors to release equipment that is compatible with the v.90 56k standard. Many of our servers and switches have been upgraded during the past few months in preparation for this massive project. We normally purchase equipment from Bay Networks and Ascend. Bay has now informed us that their 56k modems will be v.90 compliant in June. Our Ascend representative told us last week (5/1) that their upgrade will be ready by the end of June. It is now close enough to evaluate the options and make our decision. Some of you may not be familiar with these two companies. Companies who make modems for consumers spend a lot more time and money on ads to get their name out to the public. The companies that specialize in equipment for service providers don't run television commercials. Ascend is the largest single producer of modems and related servers for ISPs. Bay is somewhere in the middle of the pack in modem production, but up near the top when it comes to routers. Our primary router that connects AWOD to the Internet backbone is a Bay product. We currently use Bay modems on the 853-0856 service number. Most of our dedicated network customers connect to us through Ascend equipment. Both Bay and Ascend assure us that their v.90 modems will be able to communicate with existing 56kflex modems that some of our customers have already purchased. They will also work correctly with any USRobotics X2 modem that has been upgraded to v.90. According to USRobotics, all X2 modems are upgradable. The result will be that your existing 56k modem should be compatible with the equipment that we install. The upgrade will be an investment of more than one quarter of a million dollars. The selection of equipment should be made within the next 2 to 3 weeks, with an anticipated installation in the beginning of June. (...)