| | AT&T Paradyne Announces High-Speed Modem Technology |
 | | The technology, called GlobeSpan Rate Adaptive Digital Subscriber Line, or Radsl, is capable of transmitting data at a top speed of 7 megabits per second, fully 400 times the speed of 14.4 kilobits-per-second modems, currently the most commonly used modem. |
 | | While the Digital Subscriber Line technology upon which GlobalSpan Radsl is based has been under development for some time, the GlobeSpan Radsl technology offers a significant improvement over other implementations because its transmission speed can adapt to the quality of the signal on the line. |
 | | But Brackett said that even with the improvements promised by GlobeSpan Radsl and its competitors, it will still be incumbent on the Internet service providers to beef up the performance of their servers before the Internet will become more substantially more efficient. |
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