Pancho - Mr. Young's article is 75% bunk.
"High-speed connections are physically limited to about 2,000 feet from the phone company equipment office. This inherent problem isn't going to go away anytime soon."
Wrong, 17,000 feet with ADSL and no additional repeaters. Where? Washington (Microsoft employees homes), UofK, Marina Del Rey, Downtown Chicago, etc.
"ADSL is the current panacea for high-speed data connections. Until there is a compelling economic reason for its deployment, this is a business that will refuse to get started, except in very limited tests and peculiar markets like San Jose. It might have a play in bringing down the prices of high capacity T-3 (or D-3) lines, but for
individuals and small businesses, this is a chimera. Bill Gates, a principal in Teledesic, a high-speed satellite business, has already figured this out. Microsoft is investing in cable companies."
We (GTE) put 1,000 Microsoft employees on ADSL trials in WA. The trial is over and no one will give up their ADSL. Now we are adding another 1,000 Microsoft users. Where are the Cable Modems???
The below paragraph is the only truth to the article which appsolutely contrdicts just about everything he stated.
"However, the DSL business--which has been around for a while in the
telecommunications carrier business where it was known as DS-1(1.5 megabits of bandwidth) and DS-3 (better than 40 megabits)--solves one key problem for the telcos. By using the same copper wires that are already installed back to the central or remote telco office, then segregating the data traffic from voice with a splitter in
front of the public switched-phone network, they solve the biggest problem in the telcom world: Fast-growing and longer data connections to the Internet are tying up the regular phone call equipment. But telcos have to buy more expensive voice grade switches, or shunt off that traffic into Frame Relay or ATM (higher speed data transport protocols) before it hits the voice network so data can be handled
much more cheaply."
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