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Extracted from the Wikipedia article Modem.
Early 56k dial-up products
The first 56k (56 kbit/s) dial-up option was a proprietary design from USRobotics, which they called "X2" because 56k was twice the speed (×2) of 28k modems.
Topic summary

Extracted from the Wikipedia article Modem.
The first 56k (56 kbit/s) dial-up option was a proprietary design from USRobotics, which they called "X2" because 56k was twice the speed (×2) of 28k modems.