Aucbvax.6438
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Tue Mar  9 13:56:25 1982
Ethernet Doomed?
>From GEOFF@Sri-Csl Mon Mar  8 16:11:10 1982
	
March BYTE, p 437

  A report issued by Strategic Incorporated, a market-research firm
in San Jose, California, predicts Xerox Corporation's Ethernet local
area network will be a total failure within two years.  According to
Strategic's president, Michael Killen, "Xerox is headed for the worst
failure in the company's history." He believes that Xerox lacks
technological and price advantages, sales force, and customers
interested in buying large systems.  Fuerther, he contents that
Ethernet's baseband approach to local networking will prove inferior
over the long haul to the broadband approach taken by Xerox's
competitors.  He points out that broadband systems are better suited
to carry video, heavy voice and data transmissions, among other
applications.