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From: Jamie Bowden <jamie@inna.net>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: USR x2 modems???
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 11:25:34 -0500
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On Thu, 13 Mar 1997, Scott Thomason wrote:

> From everything I can see happening, x2 seems to be the technology
> that will prevail. Consumers are buying them. ISPs everywhere are
> rolling them out as we speak. My ISP has explicitly stated they will
> NOT support Lucent or Rockwell standards.

USR has never gotten any standard they'be submitted approved.  That and 
Livingston and Ascend are both using the Rockwell/Lucent 56k standard.  
They comprise most of the industry.  That and the fact that 3com has not 
changed thier status of supporting R/L over USR, even now that they 
bought USR.

Jamie Bowden

Network Administrator, TBI Ltd.