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). ++ Ascend Users Mailing List ++ To unsubscribe: send unsubscribe to ascend-users-request@bungi.com To get FAQ'd: <<A HREF="http://www.shore.net/~dreaming/ascend-faq">http://www.shore.net/~dreaming/ascend-faq</A>> or <<A HREF="ftp://ftp.shore.net/members/dreaming/ascend-faq.txt">ftp://ftp.shore.net/members/dreaming/ascend-faq.txt</A>> </PRE> <!--X-MsgBody-End--> <!--X-Follow-Ups--> <!--X-Follow-Ups-End--> <!--X-References--> <!--X-References-End--> <!--X-BotPNI--> <HR> <UL> <LI>Prev by Date: <STRONG><A HREF="msg00274.html">Re: (ASCEND) 48 modem limit on Max with 56k cards</A></STRONG> </LI> <LI>Next by Date: <STRONG><A HREF="msg00270.html">(ASCEND) CRC 4</A></STRONG> </LI> <LI>Prev by thread: <STRONG><A HREF="msg00274.html">Re: (ASCEND) 48 modem limit on Max with 56k cards</A></STRONG> </LI> <LI>Next by thread: <STRONG><A HREF="msg00106.html">(ASCEND) Voice vs. Data usage on a P75.</A></STRONG> </LI> <LI>Index(es): <UL> <LI><A HREF="mail2.html#00271"><STRONG>Main</STRONG></A></LI> <LI><A HREF="thrd6.html#00271"><STRONG>Thread</STRONG></A></LI> </UL> </LI> </UL> <!--X-BotPNI-End--> <!--X-User-Footer--> <!--X-User-Footer-End--> </BODY> </HTML>