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- Path: sparky!uunet!hayes!tnixon
- From: tnixon@hayes.com
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Companies that have modems upgradeable to V.FAST
- Message-ID: <5902.2a956750@hayes.com>
- Date: 21 Aug 92 21:59:44 EDT
- References: <1992Aug20.064234.23827@sdf.lonestar.org>
- Organization: Hayes Microcomputer Products, Norcross, GA
- Lines: 37
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- In article <1992Aug20.064234.23827@sdf.lonestar.org>,
- mo@sdf.lonestar.org (Mohit Goyal) writes:
-
- > Hello. I have read on this echo that USR, ZyXEL, and Hayes all have stated
- > that they have modems that will be upgradeable to V.fast.
- > ...
- > Hayes - ?????
-
- Hayes has made no such statement.
-
- > Which Hayes modems will be upgradeable to v.fast? The new Optima 14.4k
- > faxmodem?
- > Also, has Hayes stated what kind of upgrade it will be?
-
- Hayes has said nothing about V.fast, beyond the fact that we are an
- active participant in the work on the standard. No announcements
- have been made about V.fast products or upgrades of any kind.
-
- In my humble opinion (not necessarily that of my employer), such
- announcements are QUITE premature, since to make them requires
- making a lot of assumptions about what the V.fast standard will end
- up being -- and that is quite uncertain at this point. Any
- manufacturer who is including enough hardware in their modems today
- to do WHATEVER V.fast ends up being -- regardless of how complex --
- is unnecessarily charging their current users for much more
- horsepower than they need, regardless of how cheap they claim the
- eventual upgrade might be. My strong advice (which has nothing to
- do with who I work for) is to use extreme caution right now with
- taking any manufacturer up on their offer of a modem that will be
- upgradable to V.fast; there's just too much uncertainty.
-
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