Creative and Lucent Team Up on a Combo ADSL and V.90 Modem

Creative Technology and Lucent’s Microelectronics Group are teaming up on a modem that covers both sides of the broadband transition: a single PCI card that handles ADSL G.Lite and conventional V.90 dial-up, built on Lucent’s WildWire communications chip set. The idea is simple and smart: keep using your regular V.90 connection today, then switch over to ADSL the moment it becomes available in your area, without paying for two separate modems.

ADSL modems, sometimes called digital modems, use a digital coding technique to move data at very high speeds over the ordinary phone lines already in nearly every home, with as much as 26 times what a 56K modem can move. Creative expects the combo card to ship in late Q3 1999. For anyone stuck waiting on a DSL rollout, this is the sensible hedge.