Re: (ASCEND) 48 modem limit on Max with 56k cards

To: Kevin Smith <kevin@ascend.com>, "Ascend Users List" <ascend-users@bungi.com>
Subject: Re: (ASCEND) 48 modem limit on Max with 56k cards
From: Charlie Clemmer <cclemmer@baynetworks.com>
Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 22:55:27 -0500
Posted-Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 20:55:33 -0700 (PDT)
Sender: owner-ascend-users@max.bungi.com


Actually, I believe that USR, at least before the 3Com merger, was talking
with other vendors to license the X2 spec. Now, from what I heard the
royalties they wanted for such a license were unrealistic.

The USR marketing machine is definitely running in high gear here.

Charlie Clemmer

At 01:43 PM 5/13/97 -0700, Kevin Smith wrote:
>>We are getting great reviews by our users who are switching 
>>rapidly from other local ISP's. We will be buying another 4004 in the 
>>next month or two. We do use a Cisco for routing and a Mac running 
>>MacRadius for authentication. I am just waiting for the series 56 modems. 
>>I wish ascend would support X2 and K56Flex so we could offer the best of 
>>both worlds until their is a real standard. Kinda like V.Fast.
>
>2 reasons. a) USR will *not* license the X2 protocol spec to any other
>              RAS vendor.
>           b) The licensing agreement with Lucent/Rockwell prohibits
>              support for any other 56K protocol in the same system as
>              the K56flex protocol. (This is the case with Lucent, and
>              I believe it is also the case with Rockwell).

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