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- Path: netcom.com!pjk
- From: pjk@netcom.com (Philip J. Koenig)
- Subject: Re: 512Kbps modem developed by Ericsson
- Message-ID: <pjkDpw55L.Czt@netcom.com>
- Organization: Computers & Communications
- References: <4k9grj$q2t@rubens.telebyte.nl> <4k9qem$fnf@sam.inforamp.net>
- Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 06:39:21 GMT
- Sender: pjk@netcom22.netcom.com
-
- In article <4k9qem$fnf@sam.inforamp.net>,
- Geoffrey Welsh <crs0794@inforamp.net> wrote:
- >In article <4k9grj$q2t@rubens.telebyte.nl>,
- > hong@telebyte.nl (Hong Zhou) wrote:
-
- >>Hi all,
- >>
- >>I have just learned from Australia Financial Review
- >>that a research Lab of Ericsson in Vianna has developed
- >>a 512kbps modem for conventional telephone line.
- >>
- >>Has anyone else read this spetacular news as well?
- >
- >I am certain that there is no way to build a modem wich establishes a 512 kbps
- >data stream over the public switched telephone network, and I am not impressed
- >by Hayes/PPI's claim that their superior data compression makes their 28.8
- >modems equivalent to 230.4 kbps devices. There are various schemes to get
- >high rates between the home and the calling office, but they all require
- >specialized equipment at the phone company's office and one can't establish a
- >high-speed link just by buying two of the devices and plugging them into phone
- >jacks anywhere in the world and having one call the other.
- >
- >The reason for my comment on the raw data rate is that most calls though the
- >public switched telephone network are digitized into a data stream of no more
- >than 64 kbps, and there's no way to squeeze more than 64 kbps through such a
- >connection and bring it out recognizably on the other side.
-
-
-
- Geoffrey,
-
- What you say is perfectly logical given conventional wisdom, etc, and sounds
- perfectly reasonable.
-
- However:
-
- Let me remind you that not so many years ago, people were saying the same
- kinds of things about *9600 bps* connections, before the concept of
- encoding multiple bits per baud using phase-shifting, constellations, and
- so forth had been successfully demonstrated. (I'm speaking re: V.32, there
- may be some other things predating this with somewhat different means, i.e.
- PEP, etc.)
-
-
-
- Phil
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- Phil Koenig Computers & Communications pjk@netcom.com
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