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Rockwell/Brooktree merger could drive set-top boxes
News "I think Rockwell will bring a lot of money and credibility in blue-chip businesses," said Brett Butcher, managing director of Datapath Ltd.a UK graphics card maker which has used Brooktree ICs in its products.
[July 11, 1996, 10:03]
Rockwell samples 56Kbps chipset
News Matching US Robotics stride for stride, Rockwell Semiconductor Systems yesterday announced its first 56Kbps chipsets for inclusion in central site modem banks. Customers for Rockwell central site equipment will include Ascend, Cascade, Microcom...
[October 17, 1996, 12:11]
Rockwell ships 56K chips to waiting modem makers
News Rockwell has given the green light to waiting modem manufacturers such as Motorola, revealing that 56kbps chipsets are now shipping, nearly a month after bugs in the software delayed their delivery. While rivals Hayes and US Robotics took the wind...
[April 11, 1997, 14:18]
News Burst: Rockwell spins off Semiconductor business
News Rockwell will also take a $625m (£381m) restructuring charge and cut 3,800 jobs to "improve competitiveness". The division has projected sales of $1.3bn (£0.8bn) for fiscal 1998 and employs about 7,000 people.
[July 3, 1998, 14:32]
Rockwell shipping V.90 56K modem chipsets
News Rockwell claims its chipsets are at the heart of over 65 per cent of 56K Internet access modem ports, all of which are flash-upgradable to V.90. The chipsets include K56flex compatibility to give transition coverage.
[February 10, 1998, 12:29]
Performance bug found in Rockwell 56K chipset
News The firm had originally planned to ship new ModemSURFR and VoiceSURFR devices this week but postponed after finding a bug that could cause a performance hit under some network configurations. Motorola is offering an exchange to US users who may...
[March 17, 1997, 16:44]
News Burst: Rockwell ships chip for home networks
News The new line of LANfinity family enables simultaneous V.90 modem operation and low-cost networking over existing phone lines in the home, using the 1MBps spec currently being designed by the Home Phoneline Networking Association.
[October 9, 1998, 6:16]
3Com, Rockwell bury modem hatchet
News The two companies have been at odds over 56K standards for months, but have now completed interoperability testing in a joint bid to kick start the sluggish modem market. Many consumers have been hesitant about investing in 56K technology...
[February 18, 1998, 15:55]
BTC Rockwell K56 External V.90 Driver
Downloads This file contains the V.90 driver for the K56E model fax/modem card from BTC, operating under Window 95.
[July 30, 1998, 5:00]
Aviation Electronics Leader Soars With XML
White Papers Rockwell Collins is a worldwide leader in the design, production, and support of communication and aviation electronics for commercial and government customers. Rockwell Collins needed to provide a real-time repair status and repair initiation...
[December 24, 2008, 0:00]
T90WINF.ZIP
Downloads This package supports the following driver models:Rockwell Compatible Internal, V90,K56Flex,Voice,Speakerphone Internal Rockwell Voice Modem Serial Wave Device
[March 11, 1998, 6:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Rockwell, it turns out, is very clever indeed. We're often asked if we're the Intel of the communications world", said a big cheese, "but we prefer to think of Intel as the Rockwell of the processor market".
[February 14, 1998, 6:00]
Five years ago: Boca backs 56,000bps modem spec
News Despite fuzziness over technology specifications, support is building for Rockwell's proposed 56,000bps modem standard. Clearly, any announcement by Rockwell, which makes chipsets for about 70 per cent of modems shipping today, would be significant...
[September 13, 2001, 8:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News Rockwell, it turns out, is very clever indeed. We're often asked if we're the Intel of the communications world", said a big cheese, "but we prefer to think of Intel as the Rockwell of the processor market".
[February 14, 1998, 6:00]
v90w95e.zip
Downloads Click on the following links for the driver package readme info:.extract/Readme.txt This package supports the following driver models:External Rockwell Voice Modem Serial Wave Device Rockwell Compatible External, Voice,Speakerphone, 56K Modem...
[June 9, 1998, 8:00]
Diamond cuts deeper into 3D, modems
News Both 33,600bps devices come with a speakerphone and Rockwell's analogue simultaneous voice and data (ASVD) technology, which allows users to send voice and data simultaneously over the same phone line.
[September 18, 1996, 15:56]
Five years ago: 56Kbps modems take shape
News Rockwell said last week that it would show devices based on its chipsets working at the 56,000bps speed during November's Comdex trade show in Las Vegas. The new Rockwell standard is half digital. However, the remote modem can only send back data...
[September 18, 2001, 8:00]
Comdex Fall, Las Vegas: 56K modems picture looks fuzzy
News Followers of the Rockwell and similar Lucent-proposed 56Kbit standards will need to send back modems for a chip retrofit but their solution could be the more likely to win the backing of the ITU regulatory body, judging by the fact that over 100...
[November 21, 1996, 9:26]
56K modems could get even faster
News USR's x2 technology and Rockwell's K56Flex only support the standard V.34 maximum of 33.6Kbits/sec for upstream transmissions. However, the fragmented picture that has led many communications experts to predict no ITU standard will come about until...
[January 7, 1997, 14:08]
56K modem wars may be near end
News The resolution is a breakthrough for the 56K-bps standard, which has been divided for several months between two incompatible camps: 3Com's x2, and the K56Flex technology from Rockwell Semiconductor Systems Inc.and Lucent Technologies Inc.
[December 8, 1997, 11:38]
