Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!mailrus!ames!telebit!rls
From: rls@telebit.UUCP (Richard Siegel)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Standards/Trailblazer Discussion
Summary: Telebit and standards are not mutually exclusive
Message-ID: <291@telebit.UUCP>
Date: 4 Aug 88 16:23:45 GMT
References: <7805@cup.portal.com> <309@synsys.UUCP> <10489@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com>
Organization: Telebit Corporation, Cupertine, CA
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With regard to some of the articles that have been circulating in this newsgroup
about standards, here is Telebit's position:

1. The TrailBlazer Plus currently has an estimated 45-60% of the installed base
   of HIGH-SPEED (greater than 9600 bps) modems. With the inclusion of such
   features as our protocol support for UUCP, we have listened to the Unix 
   community, and delivered performance in a way that saves users money 
   with every use.

2. V.32, the CCITT recommendation is indeed a standard, in the sense that if
   you purchase a TRUE V.32 modem from one manufacturer (such as UDS), and 
   try and talk to one of anothe manufacturer (such as Concord), they will
   actually converse. Just like V.22 bis modems (2400 bps). This recommendation
   does not include any specification for error control, so then you are in
   the proprietary technology again (until V.42 finally arrives).

3. Telebit is both aware of and participating in the standards committees in
   Europe. We have been working with the V.34 working group for nearly two
   years, and are one of the two final proposals for an ultra-high-speed
   asymmetrical modem. Our proposal is for a 28 Kbps version of PEP, and we
   have demonstrated a working prototype for evaluation to the CCITT. But
   this "standard" is not expected to be finalized until next spring, at the
   earliest. 

4. Currently, the only protocols for communicating at above 9600 bps that are
   supported by more than one manufacturer are V.32 (there are several makers
   of V.32), and the Telebit PEP technology. In addition to Telebit, several
   other manufacturers have licensed our technology. This list includes Ven-Tel,
   Racal-Milgo, GTE, Digital Pathways, and others. No other modem manufacturer
   can make that claim.

5. As stated previously, Telebit is very interested in the Unix marketplace,
   for obviously financial reasons. But our modem would not have become the
   standard so quickly if the product was junk. This is our most technically
   sophisticated and vocal market, and if we were not selling the best product,
   everyone on the net would hear about it! We are committed to this and other
   major markets, and are constantly devising new ways of improving our product
   for higher performance, at the same or lower price.

Thanks for your continued support and encouragement, and keep up the 
discussions; this is one of the best forums anywhere for intelligent modem
discussion, and Telebit is committed to participation in it, and learning from
the many different points of view.
   
Keep up the discussions!

Regards,


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Product Manager                      UUCP:  {sun,uunet,ames,hoptoad}!telebit!rls
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