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56-k modem promise precedes performance.
Business Communications Review, December, 1996 by Krapf, Eric
New 56-kbps modems may shorten the World Wide Wait, but not until tough issues get resolved. For residential users who mainly want faster downloads of World Wide Web pages, the recently announced 56-kbps modems from Rockwell Semiconductor Systems (Newport Beach, CA), U.S. Robotics (Skokie, IL) and Lucent Microelectronics (Berkeley Heights, NJ) should prove appealing.
But for remote access business users, three factors will limit the modems' role, at least in the near term: * The devices' asymmetric transmissions. * Telco plant quality, which could keep actual throughput below 56 kbps. * Standards issues relating not just to the modems, but also to the network model on which they depend. It will probably take 18 months - at the earliest - for...
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