PW> On 08 Oct 96, Albert Alcoceba wrote to Paul Wankadia --



 PW>> Has the V.34+ standard been ratified by the ITU-T yet, cuz there sure

 PW>> are a lot of 33.6Kbps modems coming out now!

 AA>> It was ratified as part of V.34.  There is not V.34+.  V.34 covers up

 AA>> to 33.6kbps.



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



Who.....Rockwell



The BIG reason was that Motorola and other companies that have

had 33600 for a couple of yrs (1994) aimed them at industry (the

price was just too high for the averge home user in many cases.)

The USR Courier is designed for the Business market not home use.

USR brought it to the people with Flash Rom making it affordable

(free) to the mass market.



The reason that it is flooding the market now is that a fair

percentage of the worlds modems use Rockwell chips and rockwell

have only just released a 33600 chipset. (way behind the others on

this one) All the other compaies used there own chipset.



Another reason that you are seeing more 33600 modems in the bottom end

of the range (Cheap Rockwell clones) is that V.34 (33600) modems are

now old technology. The 56K modems are being pushed by marketing now.



There will be a bit of dumping on the market (Rockwell clones) in the

next few months.



Russell

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