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- From: evanc@uuisis.isis.org (Evan Champion)
- Subject: Re: v.fast
- Organization: International Shared Information Service (Ottawa)
- Date: Fri, 04 Sep 92 04:49:10 GMT
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- tnixon@hayes.com writes:
-
- > There ARE NO PRE-RELEASE SPECS. The current level of consensus in
- > the committee is quite small; we can just barely agree on the data
- > rates, much less symbol rates, modulation schemes, startup
- > procedures, secondary channel implementations, etc. etc. etc. There
- > is another meeting at the end of this month in Bath, England, at
- > which we hope to make some progress, but the fact remains that
- > V.fast is still quite undefined. Anything you see on the market
- > today claiming to be "V.fast" is really just another proprietary
- > high-speed modulation scheme, since there isn't even the beginning
- > of a standard yet (just a lot of proposals on the table).
-
- Is there some way to find out about what goes on at these meetings (ie:
- minutes or something of the sort) or are they fairly "closed"? I would like
- to find out atleast about the options that the comittee is debating over.
-
- Evan
-