Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Technology Stocks : Westell WSTL -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: JW@KSC who wrote (13819)	11/2/1998 4:04:00 PM
From: Cristobal	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 21342

Can someone explain today's 3 x Normal Westell volume to me??????

To: JW@KSC who wrote (13819)	11/2/1998 6:31:00 PM
From: matt gray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21342

I understand your CAP vs DMT point of view. No doubt that from a pure technology perspective it is superior. But I'm not convinced that this is the driving issue at this point in time. My point is still this, the net cannot handle the spec performance of either technology and probably won't be able to handle the thru put for a couple of years. Alot of things can take place in a couple of years.... a company could buy DMT chips at a significantly lower cost, money can be made in the meantime that allows it to enter the market with a mature product etc. A company could leapfrog the competition with money made in the short term..... Alot of things could happen. Yeah, DMT is obviously better than CAP but its an issue of diminishing returns. Kinda like buying a Porsche...spend 3 x the money for marginal improvements in performance. In this case, unless proved otherwise both devices will perform equally well given the latency and congestion associated with the NET as a whole. You tell me, will a DMT modem run faster than a CAP modem when I'm sitting at my house running on real circuits connected to a real world ISP?