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Non-Tech : Amati investors
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To: riposte who wrote (15105)4/24/1997 9:15:00 AM
From: Bob Smith   of 31386
 
[The future is not that far away...]

<<I believe what will drive this in hotels is cost savings; they would not need to wire
rooms with coaxial cable, and one or more twisted pair for telephone and data lines.
Just a single twisted pair would work.>>

Steve,

I agree. Hotels are served by PBX's with plain analog (2-wire) sets
serving most rooms. The capability for all functionality is at the
PBX switch level. A PBX/ADSL card (similar to a T1/E1 card)could
replace many of the normal Central Office cards found in a PBX.
Take it a step further and now you can pump "all sorts" of data
to that room if you have 6mb-40mb to play with.

I have no inside data.. but a major PBX company (like Lucent, Nortel..)
must have this on the drawing board. This coupled with the Lucent
Internet Telephony server is a "natual" for cost justifying many
sales and routing long distance traffic over the network.

I also read where SBC (Southwest Bell Corp) announced a strategic sales
agreement to distribute Lucent PBX's. Now if an RBOC say's "no..we
care not to cannabalize our sales"...then an ISP could lease a dry
pair from an RBOC, offer this service, and essentially bypass an RBOC.
What a grand strategy ...my brain is working way to hard this
morning.

Bob
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