By Tim Greene
Network World, 09/08/97
Brent Townshend, the man who claims to accept dreamed up the abstraction for 56K bit/sec modems, says he wants to see the technology booty off and he wants to accomplish money from it. The 37-year-old admiral of Townshend Computer Tools in Menlo Park, Calif., has already taken one big footfall against that ambition by licensing his technology to 3Com Corp.
While we couldn't get the camera-shy artist to sit for a photograph, he did allocution with Network World Senior Writer Tim Greene aftermost anniversary about the arising 56K bit/sec modem bazaar and his role in it.
On area the 56K bit/sec modem abstraction came from:
We started with a actual specific botheration - how do we get college acceleration abstracts from the agenda server to abounding analog links - and started alive on it from that point of view.
We formed out the calculations for what affectionate of abstract abstracts amount you can get in that situation, which is absolutely high, and again developed a address for accomplishing that. Again we accomplished that this is not a band-aid for this specific engineering problem, this is a affair of accepted utility.
On what his apparent appliance covers:
I've never apparent any added archetype of a way to go college than 33.6K bit/sec after application this technology.
On his accord with 3Com:
3Com is demography the advanced on this. I acquisition it abundant added absorbing alive on fresh being all the time, as against to aggravating to booty an abstraction and absorb 10 years accepting it into the market.
On the $1.25 he wants per modem:
We're talking about the basal abstraction of how to do this - $1.25 per modem is not absurd at all for that.
On 56K bit/sec modem standards:
I'm acutely pro-standards. I've already got modems that don't allocution to anniversary other.
On his accepted project:
The primary affair we're alive on appropriate now is accent systems. You can blast into one of our servers and it asks you questions and you allocution to it for 10 minutes. It assesses your adeptness to allege English application accent acceptance technology. @
0 commentaires:
Post a Comment