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To: MikeM54321 who wrote (1659)	1/6/2001 12:32:36 PM
From: ftth	of 46821

Hi Mike, thanks for reminding me about that post of yours. I had started a reply to it but it was turning into quite a research project. I put it on the back burner but didn't get back to it. Tracing through the zillions of CLW press releases is quite a chore, especially since it appears they have changed directions somewhat, from their original case of building master headends at each community (on a chunk of land they got from the developer at the project inception). They now have a metro network that is operational and are building (or have completed?) a super-headend facility, according to press releases. In your reply I think you are mixing Clearworks and WinFirst. For CLW, I've found the following: They are an approved CLEC in Texas and Nevada (e.g. "Through its CLEC approval (Competitive Local Exchange Carrier) by the Texas Public Utility Commission (PUC), ClearWorks.net can now use Southwestern Bell's existing capacity, thus avoiding the otherwise heavy infrastructure investments that would be necessary to provide local phone service in the neighborhoods in which it is operating.) and for other voice services: "Fiber-to-the-home provider ClearWorks.net has closed the acquisition of LDConnect.com, a voice-over-Internet protocol provider of long distance services. " and they say they are using the Optibase MGW2000 to deliver video (e.g. "Optibase (Nasdaq: OBAS), a leader in broadband media streaming solutions, today announced that its MGW 2000 streaming media gateway has been selected by ClearWorks.net (Amex: CLW) for distribution of high quality video-and audio-based services to residential and business customers using DSL, fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) and other broadband access technologies. Optibase is also providing ClearWorks with its endpoint solutions which will be installed in set top boxes residing in customers' homes. ) They also have some press releases about their own set-top box design. On a slightly different matter, I've been trying to gather some details and reasons why some chose to only provide data in FTTH deployments, and leave the video and voice as-is for now. I'll get to that at some point also. I've been trying to gather information on what's going on in Sweden relative to fiber deployments. It's very interesting and they are really moving along.

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