BPL launches 'Instanet' range of communication products

BPL, a company dealing in Networking and Information Technology products and
services, has launched a set of communication products under the 'Instanet'
range, which comprises of external and internal modems.

BPL has rolled out a 56 Kbps v.90 external modem which has a firmware written
specifically to meet the Indian telephone conditions and Department of Telecom
standards. What's more, the power adaptor operates from 170 Volts to 270 Volts,
which is the typical operating range in India against 230 +/- 10 percent offered
by others who import the same from Taiwan and China.

The modem comes with an inbuilt speaker and microphone socket for use as a
speaker phone and has voice software supplied with it for converting your modem
to an answering machine, with options of upto 999 mailboxes. What's more you can
record your own customized voice greeting. It can operate on a wide range of
operating software platforms from Win 95 to Win 2000 and Win NT.

BPL Instanet 56 K internal modem is a PCI Plug and Play 56 K internal modem.
It supports telephone answering machine function through the microphone and
speaker interface of sound card. It supports Data Compression ITU-T
V.42bis/MNP-5 protocol and Error Correction ITU-T V.42/MNP2-4 protocols for
providing faster access to the Internet. It can operate with Win 95, Win 98, Win
2000 and Win NT operating systems.

BPL Instanet 10/100 mbps LAN card: \par it is a single chipset Plug and Play
32 bit PCI LAN card. It conforms to IEEE 802.3 10 Base-T and IEEE 802.3u
100Base-TX standard. It supports 10/100 Mbps and half/full duplex network
operation.

It has auto-negotiation interoperation options for compatibility and best
performance. It provides Diagnostic LEDs for troubleshooting.