Softmodem - Winmodem As A Brand Name

Winmodem As A Brand Name

"Winmodem" is a U.S. Robotics brand name, but the term has now come to mean any software-based modem, in the same way that Xerox refers to any copy machine in some parts of the world. As of 2007, U.S. Robotics no longer uses "Winmodem" as a brand of modem. Instead, they use the term generically for modems that are controllerless but retain all other modem functions in hardware; this happens to include all of their current branded modems that are not full-hardware modems.