April 24 Livingston, a division of Lucent Technologies, has beta V.90 code for the U.S. and Canadian models of the PortMaster 3 remote access server.
More information is available in the beta release notes .
Shane Lord of Sirius Technologies reports that the NetComm Roadster II 56 Ultra is now shipping, with dual simultaneous support for K56flex and V.90. Shane was the first to explain the limits of previous 1 MB Rockwell chips. He notes that the new modem uses a 2 MB chipset, and the upcoming Banksia MyModem 56V will be Sirius Technology's first modem to use Rockwell's new 2 chip solution, which also contains 2 MB of memory. A week before the actual press release was issued. V.90 service was available in 36 locations from Halifax to Victoria on that day.