John, at 21:03 on Dec 02 1996, you wrote to David Drummond ...

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DD>> The latest PC World mag arrived on my desk today.

DD>> Banksia Press release announces the imminent arrival of the 
DD>> 56k banksia modem (second half 1997).

DD>> USR Sportsters now selling will be upgradeable to 56K.

JC> Unless I am completely missing the boat here the X2 
JC> technology relies on a 56Kb/s digital channel and only one 
JC> D-A conversion.  Who is going to provide the 56Kb/s digital 
JC> channel?  

JC> I doubt Telstra or Optus will as their transmission 
JC> equipment would be based on the 64Kb/s channel and 2Mb/s (30 
JC> 64Kb/s channels) E1 ITU-T system.  This system doesn't have 
JC> any common elements with the US 56Kb/s channel and  1.5Mb/s 
JC> (24 56Kb/s channels) T1 system until well above these rates 
JC> - its either 622Mb/s or 2.5Gb/s if my memory serves me well.

JC> As such I don't see any use for the 56Kb/s so called X2 
JC> technology in Oz.

JC> Now if there was a 64Kb/s version that would be different.  
JC> I've asked Joe F if this is in the pipeline.

Yeah, I was alluding to all that :-)

David
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