PW> On 15 Oct 96, John Piper wrote to Paul Wankadia --



 PW>> I wonder why they didn't go upto 33.6Kbps earlier???

 JP>> Simple: the technology which allows us to reach 33600 bps over PSTN

 JP>> telephone lines didn't exist when V.34 was ratified by the ITU-T in 1994



 PW> What technology is that?



I would say the seed was planted when someone thought up HST

( a forward and a back channel )



The fact that with anything, you have to take one step at a time.

You could not have 33600 until someone perfected 24000 then pushed the

limits and got 26400 then 28800 then the limits were pushed again to

31200 then 33600.

Oh and someone had to think radically in the first place to even come

up with the dream.



Natural progression.





Russell

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