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To: joe who wrote (16094)	5/25/1998 2:32:00 AM
From: joe	Respond to of 45548

Little by little, 56K modems will be all over the place - just like roaches in S.Florida, you won't be able to get away from them <gg> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ June 01, 1998, TechWeb News Slow Rush to Faster Modems By Jeff Newman Now that the standard has at long last been set, you can expect all those 56K modems to work together. Eventually. The new specification, V.90, is gaining wide acceptance. Leading vendors such as 3Com Corp., Diamond Multimedia Systems, Hayes Corp. and Zoom Telephonics have started shipping V.90-based modems and are actively participating in interoperability tests with other vendors. The immediate benefit is that it ends the rivalry between 3Com's x2 specification and the K56flex technology promoted by Lucent Technologies and Rockwell Semiconductor Systems, incorporating aspects of both. The bandwidth doesn't get any higher (up to 54,000 bits per second downstream and up to 33,6000bps upstream)-but users now can have true connectivity between all 56K modems that adhere to the V.90 protocol, and should be able to connect to any ISP at 56K speeds instead of being stuck with a particular ISP or vendor. However, server-side products-which are more complex and costlier to implement-will take longer to reach the market. Many of the top-tier vendors are producing multimode modems that support both V.90 and whichever 56K implementation they had previously chosen. The multimode negotiations are expected to try V.90 connections first, then step down accordingly-the vendor-specific 56K protocol next, then negotiating regular analog connections such as V.34 where digital connections either are not offered or where line conditions are inadequate for 56K.