Ray Van Eng (04/03/97) . PRODUCT AD
In Sergeant Bluff, Iowa, MCI is running a trial with the local Northwest Iowa Telephone Co. in using Performance Telecom's Champion digital modems for a work-at-home application. The idea is to bring a company's LAN to the employee's local phone center and gives the employee a direct connection to the corporate network via the digital modem based on the Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) technology. Because the digital modem would be used in a point-to-point fashion, it by-passes the telephone company's switching network where the bottleneck really is. Furthermore, the service can be rolled out to one customer at a time which does not require the entire infrastructure to be upgraded as with other services such as cable modems and ISDNs. There are other benefits as well, the 7Mbps downstream and 640 Kbps upstream service can be used for Internet access, voice conversation, reaching into a company's database or even video-conferencing all over the same copper wire simultaneously. And unlike cable modems which involve line-sharing, digital modems have a dedicated line to themselves. As a result, chances for speed degradation and security risk is much lower than with cable modems.
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