Re: v.fast?

Andrew Foster (adflists@fl.net.au)
Fri, 15 Aug 1997 06:07:30 +1000

>> 8) archives will tell you that non-ITU standards are not supported... so
>> v.fast modems are limited to 14.4Kbps ...
>
>This is true. MANY of the v.fast people out there who were getting 28800
>to their isp are now getting 14400 because their isp switched. We used to
>use Optima racks, and upgraded and broke all of our V.FAST (or was that
>V.FC i cant remember) customers.

Anyone know if it is likely that v.fast could be added to the new DSPs / 56k
code somehow? There are still quite a few v.fast users out there (we
trialled an AS5200 and their equiv of show modem also shows whether it's
v.fast or v.34 and I was surprised how many v.fc's it showed up)

>We switched em to new modems. Most of our clients wanted new voice modems
>anyway.
>
>I wonder if Ascend supports it?

Cisco do in the AS5200.

Regards,
Andrew Foster