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(ASCEND) FW: Edupage, 9 December 1997 (fwd)
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>From owner-texas-isdn@fc.net Tue Dec 9 16:46 CST 1997
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 1997 16:18:25 -0600 (CST)
From: Gene Crick <gcrick@MAIN.Org>
To: Texas ISDN Users Group <texas-isdn@tiug.org>
Subject: FW: Edupage, 9 December 1997 (fwd)
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Subject: FW: Edupage, 9 December 1997
>Edupage, 9 December 1997. Edupage, a summary of news about information
>technology, is provided three times a week as a service by Educom,
>a Washington, D.C.-based consortium of leading colleges and universities
>seeking to transform education through the use of information technology.
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>MODEM MAKERS REACH AGREEMENT ON STANDARDS
>The battle over technical standards for 56-Kbps modems appears to be over,
>with rival camps tentatively agreeing to a compromise between 3Com's X2 and
>Rockwell International's K56flex technologies. The new international
>standard, approved by an International Telecommunication Union working
>committee, incorporates details from both transmission techniques, leaving
>both sides claiming victory: "Everybody is a net winner in this one," says
>an analyst at a modem-market tracking firm. With a new standard in place,
>it is expected that most 56K modems made this year can be upgraded fairly
>simply through the addition of new software. (Wall Street Journal 8 Dec 97)
>
>
w/thanks to Chris Peterson
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