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AetherWorks Breaks the Sound Barrier
  by Mark H. Anbinder 

  AetherWorks Corporation last week announced its first ready-for-
  market technology, a high-speed analog modem that will offer
  symmetrical 43.2 Kbps connections over an ordinary analog
  telephone line. The technology, which the Minnesota company calls
  V.Mach, will be discussed at the company's Las Vegas hotel suite
  at Comdex this week.

http://www.aetherworks.com/>

  The company plans to license its technology to an undisclosed
  array of modem manufacturers, with the first models expected by
  the middle of 1997. Though AetherWorks says its reference platform
  includes support for all current modem standards including v.34+
  (33.6 Kbps) and backward compatibility for previous standards all
  the way down to 300 bps, it's not certain all manufacturers will
  be able to include support for uncommon protocols, such as AT&T's
  v.32terbo (19.2 Kbps, included in Global Village Mercury modems).
  Compression and error correction standards such as the MNP suite
  and v.42 and v.42bis are supported in current prototypes and
  should be handled by most, if not all, licensee modems.

  AetherWorks president and CEO Dr. Jonathan Sachs commented that
  the V.Mach technology performs especially well on noisy telephone
  lines, where some modem protocols fall down. He added that V.Mach
  performs at least as well as previous technologies all the way
  down the line quality spectrum.

  V.Mach modems should be well suited to high-speed Internet dialup
  connections and network-to-network routing applications. Sachs is
  confident demand for analog modems such as those containing the
  V.Mach technology will remain high for the next several years; he
  says that recently announced asymmetrical 56 Kbps technologies
  require a digital local loop on one end of the connection and
  unusually high analog line quality, so these technologies will not
  be well-suited to most consumer and business applications where
  higher-speed technologies such as ISDN aren't appropriate.

  AetherWorks is also working on a telephony service called Jeeves,
  which the company says will revolutionize computer telephony by
  offering such capabilities as having email read over the phone and
  having voicemail transferred to a laptop.

    AetherWorks Corporation -- 888/552-3309 -- 888/552-3301 (fax)
      

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