Date: Fri, 16 May 1997 04:49:19 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Yura Socolov <yura@binary.net> Cc: damian@cablenet.net (Damian Hamill), freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: radius, usr total control and freebsd Message-ID: <17726.863783359@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 16 May 1997 05:44:12 CDT." <199705161044.FAA28910@matrix.binary.net>
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> What are you answering to your users, asking when will the 56k access be > available? And to those who have bought pretty damn expensive upgrades > for their sportsters, and now want x2, because even america onhold has > already got it and want access "now!" or else. Actually, this is a really bad time to make a committment to 56K. Ascend and Cisco, both notable players in this game, aren't backing X2 at all - they're backing the FLEX standard and Ascend is even offering their Flex upgrades for free, something which is sure to get them into many places just as their aggressive ISP equipment loan deals did. Having Rockwell and AT&T behind the FLEX standard is also nothing to sneeze at, and Compuserve has already gone over to the new 56K standard. Of course, it's entirely incompatible with X2. Ultimately, of course, there will be solutions which are compatible with both, but do you really want to make the investment now? > And besides, both Mega^H^H^H^HLivingston and USR say they are going to > support whatever becomes the standard in 56k. Sure they are. And they'll be happy to take more of your money when the time comes to upgrade to this new standard, too. :-) Jordan
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