This paper studies the role of Internet Service Providers in the 56K standards war. 56K modems were introduced under two competing incompatible standards. The paper shows the importance of competition between Internet Service Providers in the adoption process. It shows that ISP's were less likely to adopt the technology that...
Menlo Park, Calif.--3Com and an individual inventor have released terms to license their proprietary technology which is likely to be incorporated into the open standard for 56K modem communications. However, Brent Townshend, a private researcher who has filed for several patents which he says are an integral element of all...
Milpitas, Calif.--Another challenger is preparing to enter the emerging 56 kilobits-per-second kps analog modem chip market, where two separate camps are already posturing for industry dominance.
LAS VEGAS--BUSINESS WIRE--NOVEMBER 21, 1996--Lucent Technologies' Microelectronics Group and 3Com Corporation (Nasdaq: COMS) have announced plans to enable 3Com to bring 56 Kbps modem technology to the central-site remote access concentrator and wide area network WAN markets. The announcement was made at the Comdexa trade show here today.
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 New 56-kbps modems may...
LAS VEGAS--BUSINESS WIRE--Jan. 9, 1997--The Microelectronics Group of Lucent Technologies announced two new customers for its 56-kilobit-per-second kbps modem technology, which it is demonstrating at this week's Consumer Electronics Show at the Sands Expo & Convention Center, Booth No. 20821.
Mountain View, Calif.--The groundswell under the emerging 56 kilobits-per-second Kps modem initiative surged last week in a flood of chip rollouts and technology announcements, among them, Cirrus Logic's telephony platform supporting the controversial U.S. Robotics x2 protocol.
WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--Nov. 24, 1998--FNet Corp., an IP Telephony and Internet subsidiary of Franklin Telecom Tuesday announced that in cooperation with GTE it has begun installation to provide ADSL service in Southern California.
WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--Nov. 24, 1998--FNet Corp., an IP Telephony and Internet subsidiary of Franklin Telecom Tuesday announced that in cooperation with GTE it has begun installation to provide ADSL service in Southern California.
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--Sept. 2, 1998--Global networking leader 3Com Corporation (NASDAQ:COMS) and independent inventor Dr. Brent Townshend today announced the issuance to Townshend of U.S. Patent Number 5,801,695.
NORWOOD, MASS.--Pointing to groundwork laid three years ago and since, Analog Devices president/CEO Jerald G. Fishman told the financial community last week that the company has redeemed itself. The company planned all this fall to do that and he backed up his words with simultaneous new DSP technology announcements with...