Talk:Telebit

message: I don't recall the exact timing, but the FastBlazer was introduced AFTER Telebit acquired Octocom.  It had been developed entirely by Octocom, rather than resulting from anything Telebit had been developing.  In fact, Telebit cancelled its internal V.fast development plans and pursued the Octocom acquisition specifically because Octocom claimed to be very close to completion of the FastBlazer, a claim which was in hindsight obviously false.
During the ITU development of the V.fast standard (which eventually became V.34), Telebit proposed using an enhanced version of PEP with echo cancellation for full-duplex operation, but this was rejected in favor of a conventional single-carrier approach.  Full-duplex PEP would have had better performance on poor quality telephone connections, but this was apparently less of a concern to the committee than the peak data rate.
--Brouhaha 21:49, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: 2006

message: No, the FastBlazer was designed and being sold by Telebit before the Octocom merger. It was a very inexpensive product completely outsourced. Problem was that there were so many commodity modems at that time. It did not do PEP to keep the cost down so it could compete against other commodity modems. PEP would only provide benefits if it worked with other PEP modems. Actually V.34 provided many of the same benefits that PEP provided. Hope this helps.
It's diffult to know what exactly he's saying "no" to in the context above, but the question was worded such that he's actually saying "No, Octcom did not design the FastBlazer." Comments?
Maury 20:44, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: ...but so was the case for everyone but USR basically. Hayes died the same year as Telebit, and by that point the majority of the "incoming brands" like Supra had already given up. There's only so much one can do when faced with the twin problems of rapid commoditization and a rapidly shrinking market. Hats off to USR, really, for a finely managed transition. Maury 12:44, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Notes from Jim Norrod

message: It appears that some of the contents of this article, particularly with regard to Telebit's accounts payable handling after the merger, may have been copied from my web page.  (Possibly even by me; I can't seem to get at the history of the old Trailblazer page to check.)  Anyhow, some possible inaccuracies may have crept in.  My web page states that Telebit stopped paying one of it's semiconductor suppliers in a timely manner.  The article says that they were unable to pay the bills on time.  I am not aware of enough details of the financials to know whether they were *able* to pay the bills on time; I only know that they didn't do so for at least one particular major supplier, who dropped Telebit like a hot potato as a result.
Also my web page states that the west coast office was closed after the VP of Engineering quit; the article states that it happened after the "head of NetBlazer development" quit.  I'm not sure who that would be, but it was definitely the VP quitting that triggered the closure.  He had a golden parachute, and the executives undoubtedly didn't want to pay it out, so they waited for him to leave.
Unless there is some objection to it, I intend to edit the "End of the company" section of the article soon in order to correct/clarify these matters.
--Brouhaha 08:13, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: By all means, go for it! I am going to re-work the fastblazer/octocom part based on the info above, so note that there will be a larger intro to octocom earlier in the article. Maury 12:22, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually I see you've completed most of it already. I did minor cleanup only. Maury 12:41, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Accuracy in copying material from outside sources

message: There needs to be a description that explains how TurboPEP works.  Right now it says, "WorldBlazer model; essentially a T3000 with the new 23,000 bit/s TurboPEP mode," which doesn't explain to the reader how they increased the speed from ~18000 to ~23000.  -  Theaveng 14:27, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: How does TurboPEP work?

message: I'm not sure the lessons learned section is complete without a slightly more thorough look at the technology platforms and some key decisions.  Both Octocom and Telebit were developing a v.34+ modem on (2) TI DSP chips, C25s if I am not mistaken (TMS320C25).  US Robotics had decided to develop this generation on a single TI chip - and had begun to price more aggressively to reflect better future pricing.  So the chatter about whether the Sunnyvale team or the Chelmsford team would be faster to market was never going to be relevant.  This 1994 modem was not economical in the world's major markets at the time of launch.
Neilhenry 22:28, 20 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Important lessons