CPATH was going to be the name of the new company that the group of
unnamed investors was going to create by buying the modem group from
Motorola. That deal fell through and Motorola said that was it; they
were just going to shut it all down. I think they were down to about
500 employees here. It had been as high as 2500-3000 several years ago.
It is too bad. Their 56k modems weren't anything outstanding (just
another Rockwell chipset), but some of their older modems were pretty
good. Of course, you can still find UDS (Universal Data Systems, the
company that Motorola bought out that made modems) modems around here in
odd places. :-) It used to be great: you could reccomend Motorola to
the dialup customers and Adtran to people that needed a CSU, and either
way you were supporting a local company. At least it doesn't look like
Adtran is going anywhere soon.
-- Chris Adams - cadams@ro.com System Administrator - Renaissance Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.
> >According to Ed Seiler <pman@rcia.com>: > >>At least it does on my Motorola (remember them? now owned by > >>the some former Motorola execs) and Zoomies. > > > >I think you have that wrong. Motorola is out of the modem business - it > >was just shut down. They never could find a buyer. The plant is here > >in Huntsville, AL, and it is supposed to be closed within 60 days with > >all workers laid off. They tried to get another modem maker to buy the > >division, then tried to sell it to an unknown group, but all of that > >fell through. > > > >I suspect that people with Motorola modems may never see v.90. > >-- > >Chris Adams - cadams@ro.com > >System Administrator - Renaissance Internet Services > >I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. - To unsubscribe, email 'majordomo@livingston.com' with 'unsubscribe portmaster-users' in the body of the message. Searchable list archive: <URL:http://www.livingston.com/Tech/archive/>