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Re: (ASCEND) K56flex connect rate reporting?



At 09:26 AM 5/18/97 -0400, Robert A. Pickering Jr. wrote:
>On Wed, 14 May 1997, Kevin Smith wrote:
>
>> Well since it's still not currently possible to connect at 56000 (read FCC
>> limit), and you would only see up to 52000 on K56flex connects....*unless*
>> the information is set to 56000 for any K56flex connect....I'll check it
out
>> since in our LAB testing we were not running RADIUS (not part of the test
>> setup).
>
>Whoa!  I read somewhere that K56Flex doesn't have the power limitations 
>that X2 has.  In fact, I'm communicating that fact.  It was my understanding
>that the modem hardware had to be swapped out specifically because a 
>software upgrade of the DSPs would then cause the same power problems as 
>X2.  

I would be interested to find out where you read/heard that, since the same 
limitation exists in all implementations: X2, K56Plus, V.flex and K56Flex.

>The FCC limitation is on Power Output not on connect rates.  It just so
>happens that for an X2 modem to connect above 53K they violate the FCC
>rule.  However, again, I heard that K56Flex didn't have this limitation.

K56Flex has the same limitation.


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