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To: Wolverine who wrote (24921)	6/26/1998 6:28:00 PM
From: stevie ray	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 36349

<< SmartMoney story on ADSL and PAIR>> Nice catch! Now, if Chuckie can deliver a couple of cents over estimates, we're in the mid 20's.

To: Wolverine who wrote (24921)	6/26/1998 7:28:00 PM
From: mhdmarathon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36349

Found this in the Orange County Register yesterday morning. Hard to tell if it is applicable or not..... Phone-line network cartel adds Rockwell COMMUNICATIONS: A dozen firms are developing a technology to turn copper wires into high-speed transmission lines. June 25, 1998 By DAWN C. CHMIELEWSKI The Orange County Register Rockwell Semiconductor Systems of Newport Beach has joined 11 computer and communications companies to back an emerging technology that would turn copper phone lines into a vast home-computer network. The technology doesn't exist, yet. In theory it would work like this: The computer in your office and the one in the kids' bedroom would simultaneously use everything from printers to modems to Internet content delivered courtesy of your cable TV provider. All the voice, data and video elements would travel over skinny phone lines at speeds of 1 million bits a second. 3Com's David Sandford said the home network is an alternative to running extra wires or buying sophisticated (and complex) hubs to act as the traffic cop and direct the data. And it's potentially lucrative, too. Market analyst Dataquest estimates that 15 million homes operate two or more computers, and 60 percent of all new PCs are purchased by families that own another one. Why a formal alliance? Rockwell and Santa Clara-based 3Com know, through scars earned in the recent modem wars, just how quickly the lack of a single standard can cool a hot technology. Rockwell's K56flex technology and 3Com's x2 modems couldn't communicate. While the two fought for supremacy in the market for 56,000-bit-per-second modems, prices and profits were evaporating. Confused consumers simply avoided buying. The first products to incorporate this new technology should reach stores late this year or in early 1999, the Alliance says. A card that would allow existing PCs and other computer hardware to plug into this new home-network technology would cost about $100.