Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!sugar!ssd
From: ssd@sugar.uu.net (Scott Denham)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: V.32 will dominate the marketplace (Was: Re: Which is best?)
Summary: V32, PEP, modem usage
Message-ID: <2952@sugar.uu.net>
Date: 4 Nov 88 19:10:47 GMT
References: <9515@conexch.UUCP> <1125@vsi1.UUCP> <299@telebit.UUCP> <11136@conexch.UUCP>
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In article <11136@conexch.UUCP>, root@conexch.UUCP (Larry Dighera) writes:
> In article <10711@cup.portal.com> David@cup.portal.com (David Michael McCord) writes:
> >The Telebit 
> >product does not even support synchronous transmission, not to mention the 
> >disadvantages of getting yourself locked into a modem vendor's proprietary 
> >modulation technique.
> 
> Agreed.  Being locked into a proprietary modulation scheme is a mistake.
> Sites with Trail Blazers will find the high speed capability of their 
> modems useful only for communication with others who jumped at the 
> Telebit half price offer.  Now that the new Rockwell V.32 chipset is
> >if you invest in Telebit or USR, you are throwing your money away.
>  
In all this discussion of getting "locked in" to a proprietary modulation
scheme, I don't think much attention is being paid to the MANY commercial
sites that use dial-up links to connect specific offices at irregular
intervals for relatively short periods of time.  We don't really CARE who
else is compatible with the modem we are using - in fact in one sense a
proprietary modulation scheme serves as an additional security level. We
have used a TB+ set up to work ONLY at PEP speeds for exactly that reason.
As long as the vendor still supports the product (or at least the 
modulation scheme), and the performance is comparable to that of a 
"standard" scheme (at least in the mode you intend to use it, E.G. traffic
that is essentially one-way) there is no DISadvantage to using the TB or
whatever, so if there are price or performance or availablitly advantages
to a proprietary scheme, nobody's going to get fired or even criticized for
choosing the product best suited to the task at hand at the time.  I 
suspect there are enough applications like this to keep the TB happily
afloat regardless of what might happen in the "standards" world. Remenmber
not ALL modems are used for BBS's or big networks!! 
 
    Scott Denham 
      Western Atlas International
 
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