<i>Venus</i> accepts fax
Yet this year will manufacturers as Hayes, Kortex International, Multi-Tech Systems and Paradise Inovations 56 Kbps-modems on the market bring that till this arts nap in stands are. They make for that use of a software-update, uitgeknobbeld for the V. 90 Venus-modemchip of Lucent Electronics. This chip can incoming telephone traffic indicate and the errand in its flash memory raise also as the computer at which the modem has been coupled is uitgezet.
The modems with the Venus-processor also so can become afgesteld that they the owner a signal can give as it a fax is arrived or someone the `antwoordapparaat' has talked into.
Others foresee in the chipset are a full-duplex telephone speaker (arranged for telephone via the Internet without that discussion partners on each other need to wait to talk), recognition of the beller (caller ID), bellers in the watch position (the modem warns as during the conversation it yet someone rings) and recognition of bellers in the watch position.
According to Lucent, the present modems can use with a Venus-chip all these possibilities already via a simple update of the software. Yet the most manufacturers will choose foresee for it the new to offer in a new modem on, according to marketing of manager Paul Kraska of Multi-Tech Systems.
“There is special hardware for necessary”, means Kraska. MessageSaver is the first modem of Multi-Tech Systems that use makes of the new technology. In the U.S. becomes the MessageSaver offered for 299 dollars 30 dollars more than the standaardmodems that the business around the Venus have built.,. Kraska expects not that its competitors the new foresee in a later stage still in `vroegere' modems take up.
The extraatjes of Lucent its single examples of the many innovations that their existence thank at the V.90-modemprotocol (see for backgrounds: The myth of the 56K6 modem) : as offers V. 90 the possibility round 56 Kbps-modems to couple through which in theory the tie width until 112 Kbps can be forced up.
The zelfdenkende modems are an outcome for small businesses and home users, that now yet often a separate fax- and answering machine buy, because the modem in their computer cannot work as the PC of the nights or in the weekend becomes uitgezet.