Cable Modems Query

The Age

Monday June 3, 1996

INTEL president and CEO Andy Grove believes cable modems may not be the ticket to high-bandwidth Internet connections to the home even though Intel has been one of the strongest promoters of the technology.

Grove's change in tune was inspired by Intel's trial run of a cable modem system in a Silicon Valley town that has been "awfully difficult to implement", he said.

Grove said that XDSL, or ADSL (Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line), may be the way to go. XDSL uses a pair of ordinary telephone lines to deliver T1 bandwidth of 1.5 megabits per second and higher.

The technology is now being adopted as a high-bandwidth pipeline to the home for the Internet by these companies. ``XDSL and various cousins of this [technology] are still in the very early phases, but to a large extent, XDSL may be the answer."

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