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Performance Telecom Champion digital modems used in

Ray Van Eng (04/03/97) . PRODUCT AD As we are struggling to take in all that talk and hoopla about ADSLs and cable modems, more high speed access modes are on the way. In our rush to the Information Superhighway, we are all banging our heads trying to deal with the congestion problem. There are just so much more options than real solutions that we can use today. 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. Advertisement High speed ADSL products For single user, SOHO (small Office, Home Office) or corporate applications. Top photo is Ethernet-to-ADSL  router, below is PCI-bus modem card for PCs. Full line of products including inverse mux, Central Office/POP routers, ATM integrator, voice splitter, management software etc. Suitable for Internet web surfing, or remote access to corporate LAN, telecommuting etc. E-Mail

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