USR isn't very willing to let others do X2. I was surprised to see
Bay get permission. I think it is because 3Com/USR and Bay tend to hit
different markets. 3Com doesn't have a 5300 level access box.
>people who upgrade. Anyways, I agree, Livingstons PM3 should support
>both technologies. They would sure sell a bunch!!! In fact, sign me
Bay Networks also owns Penril - perhaps you've heard of them, they make
digital modems. They have an *entire company* that specializes in modems
as a division. That gives them a lot of DSP coders to work on things like
this.
Even then, they are still going to be late to market because of the time it
takes to code it. And then how will interoperability be with the established
code base?
This is NOT a question of "go buy X2 code from USR". That isn't an option.
1. AFAIK they aren't selling.
2. It wouldn't run on our DSPs.
It would mean coding it all from scratch, months and months of labor. By
the time it was done the ITU-T would probably have the standard out. And I
highly doubt we'd sell anywhere NEAR enough additional units to warrant the
effort.
My opinion, but I think it is a sound stance.
-MZ
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