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- Future Looks Brighter Than Ever
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- for Courier HST Modem
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- by Casey Cowell
- President, U.S. Robotics, Inc.
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- In little more than a year, U.S. Robotics' Courier HST
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- modem has established itself as the price/performance value
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- leader among high-speed modems.
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- Courier HST is a success today because it delivered on
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- its very straightforward promise -- to radically improve
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- dial-up data communications by using the best ideas and most
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- affordable mix of technology.
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- And it will be a success tomorrow as it evolves to meet
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- ever-growing demands for power, speed, reliability, economy
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- and ease of use.
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- Courier HST's success must be framed in the context of a
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- marketplace rife with unsubstantiated product claims,
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- announced-but-undelivered products, a variety of
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- incompatibility problems and very unstable pricing.
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- As the smoke finally begins to clear, Courier HST
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- emerges as the strongest "proprietary" product in the high-
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- speed modem market, with tens-of-thousands of highly
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- satisfied users and a litany of praise from oft-skeptical
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- industry observers and product reviewers.
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- Even PC Week, last of the nay-sayers on proprietary
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- high-speed modems, admits the Courier HST is "here to stay."
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- Courier HST occupies the leading edge of a revolution in
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- modem design that has simply outpaced the formal standards
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- process.
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- The standards-setting community (CCITT) is slow to
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- confer formal recognition upon new technology. For example,
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- CCITT's V.29 and V.32 recommendations pre-date the market for
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- high-speed personal computer modems. Consequently, for many
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- applications, V.29 and V.32 modems deliver too little or too
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- much technology. But Courier HST was conceived specifically
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- for the PC marketplace, with a combination of features,
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- performance and price that have made it a winner.
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- We continue working within the U.S. modem standards
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- committee on a new, asymmetrical modem standard that will be
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- submitted in early 1989 for CCITT consideration. If
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- approved, the new recommendation (V.34) would establish
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- Courier HST as a world standard.
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- Formal recognition notwithstanding, we remain totally
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- committed to supporting and further developing our Courier
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- HST technology throughout the remaining lifetime of the
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- analog telephone network (which will almost certainly survive
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- through the turn of the century).
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- In addition, all future versions -- regardless of
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- improvements and possible supplementary modulation techniques
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- -- will offer high-speed compatibility with all previous
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- Courier HST models.
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- For more than a decade, modem users have looked to U.S.
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- Robotics for the best solutions to their data commuications
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- needs. And for more than a decade, we've met their needs for
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- productivity, reliability, compatibility, service and value.
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- We pledge to continue our tradition of excellence as we
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- meet the challenges and changes of a dynamic marketplace.
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