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To: John F. Dowd who wrote (1602)	11/19/1998 9:17:00 PM
From: savolainen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1998

[compaq/lu- old news] hi jfd, yes, no orctf silicon in compaq machines... compaq had been planning on using not only lu silicon but alcatel's as well .. at least this according to announcements from june of this year... so compaq/lu is not new news ... the one thing which strikes me as a little odd in the latest cpq/lu/awre pr is that they seem to be implying that the stuff is shipping now... for example: "..Beginning this week, Compaq will sell its Presario 5100c Series Internet PCs equipped with Compaq's new 1.5Mb Max Digital modem that contains Lucent's WildWire™ DSP1690 chip set. Compaq's modem and Lucent's chip set will also be made available this week for use in Compaq's Presario 5600 Series PCs..." biz.yahoo.com in the second half of 99 maybe... believe g.lite has a ways to go yet... like field trials for a start.. as far as i know the only g.lite field trial that has taken place or is underway to date... is over in hillsboro oregon... and that one includes all of about 20 lines.. the only other scheduled g.lite trial i've heard of is bell south for next year.. and once real world technical issues are sorted out, the next task will be sorting thru the politics of interoperability issues... between the two, sounds like more than a weeks work to me.. had forgotten about this earlier press release... sorry if i got anyone's hopes up.... ---- June 15, 1998, TechWeb News Compaq signs ADSL deals with Alcatel and Lucent -- OEM seeks to produce affordable internal modems By Mark LaPedus Atlanta- Hoping to bring Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) technology to the public at more affordable rates, perhaps later this year, Compaq Computer Corp. last week forged separate deals to co- develop ICs and modem-like products with Alcatel Microelectronics and the Microelectronics Group of Lucent Technologies Inc. At the Supercomm '98 trade show here last week, Compaq confirmed it would co-develop inexpensive, internal-modem products that combine ADSL, a modem technology that converts telephone lines into access paths for multimedia and high-speed data communications, and 56-Kbit/s analog-modem functions based on a new line of ADSL chipsets from Alcatel and Lucent. Until now, ADSL-based external modems have been available from Internet service providers and vendors for about $200. But "the real idea is to go out and get a PC with an ADSL-ready modem inside,'' said John Hunter, an analyst at TeleChoice Inc., a market research firm based in Boston. Compaq will work initially with Alcatel and Lucent, but it has not discounted teaming up with other suppliers due to the complexities of putting ADSL/56K functions on the same chip.... techweb.com --- see ya s