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- From: Sevo_Stille@f.maus.de (Sevo Stille)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Telebit, PEP level 2, and V.FA
- Message-ID: <A14278@F.maus.de>
- Date: Tue, 25 Aug 92 20:32:00 GMT
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- carson@cs.columbia.edu wrote in <1992Aug24.014203.983@ctr.columbia.edu>:
-
- c>What I'd like to know, is which (if any) of the current Telebit modems will
- c>support PEP level 2 and/or V.FAST when they become available.
-
- What do you mean by PEP level 2? The Telebit Worldblazer is using a new
- extension to PEP called TurboPEP, and as Telebit has just started selling it a
- few months ago, it's very unlikely that any further PEP version will appear
- within the next year or two.
-
- TurboPEP is probably the fastest protocol around right now (though I haven't
- seen these Motorola Codex v.fast prototypes), and it's certainly the most
- reliable highspeed protocol - on bad lines it has more than twice the
- throughput of v.32bis, and I've yet to see it lose a connection due to line
- noise!
-
- c>I understand the older modems' DSPs aren't fast enough, but are the new
- c>ones'?
-
- Well, the Worldblazer is fast enough for TurboPEP, qed. But I doubt that it has
- enough DSP power to cope with v.fast (whatever and whenever that will be).
-
- v.fast is appearantly going to be faster than TurboPEP and it will be fdx, if
- the CCITT continues the policy that brought us v.32bis, while TurboPEP is
- semi-fdx (that is, half duplex with fast, automatic turnaround). If v.fast will
- live up to the expectations, it will certainly require far more than the DSP
- power needed in the Worldblazer.
-
-
- I don't suppose that Telebit has built that much unused DSP capacity into the
- Worldblazer - indeed I would be rather angry if they made me pay now for
- something rather expensive that will be useless for another year or more (when
- DSP prices will be considerably lower than now)!
-
- The same will go for another manufacturers - all real claims to v.fast
- upgradeability say that this will be done with a major hardware upgrade.
-
- Codex is promising it's customers that their v.fast-draft modem will be updated
- to whatever v.fast might be, even if this means swapping the entire device.
-
- USR has put a exchangeable DSP board into their latest models - and has
- announced that they will sell v.fast plug-ins (more or less at the price of a
- new modem) as soon as the standard is out.
-
- Some Zyxel resellers have claimed that the new + models will be software
- upgradeable to v.fast, but I haven't heard that from Zyxel themselves, and the
- DSP power of the + models, which is far less than in the Telebit Worldblazer,
- makes it extremely unlikely that it will be able to run v.fast without a major
- hardware upgrade.
-
- bye Sevo
-