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Technology Stocks : Ascend Communications (ASND)

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To: pat mudge who wrote (37185)	3/3/1998 2:48:00 AM
From: Jack Colton	Read Replies (1) of 61433

Of course they want full ADSL. 12 years ago they wanted and started deploying COs capable of handling the first DSL (besides T-1) - ISDN. It has only recently been widely available. And once they got it out there as a product, the Non Measured areas had to be retariffed because of the unexpected uses of ISDN. When I once asked the BellSouth Network Engineering VP how many of their installed ISDN lines were used to pin up 128KB data circuits, his response was "All of them!" That in itself was not the culprit. It was not initially a lost revenue problem - ie: a $100/mo ISDN line versus a $250/mo DDS circuit. It was not even a switching / switching-capacity problem. It was all of the INTER Central Office TRUNKS that were being tied up. DDS and Data circuits did not go through the switches or through the tie lines between switches. They were pinned up outside (point to point) the switching fabric. The inter CO trunks were for voice calls - whose duration was fairly predictable with the traffic studies. But come along ISDN, and BLAM! All of those trunks get tied up. The ISDN line in my house connects to a switch, and probably passes through several other switching points before connecting to my office or ISP. I could be using 25 or more sets of inter CO trunks with just one data circuit. (Pretty cool, huh?) But not for the phone company. That is why BellSouth implemented a penny a minute charge for EACH B channel in use (over a nominal amount). So, you see your basic $100/mo ISDN data application turn into a $525/mo application and they just about killed ISDN as it was getting off the ground. Except we taught the equipment (at least ASND has) how to dial on demand and increase bandwidth on demand, so now all of those formerly "Dedicated" ISDN circuits can drop the call when no data is present. Tell me if this really old news - or if I am just rambling. I've only recently found out about techstocks and I do not know what has been stated in the past. What are the tariffs like in your area? Also, one more point, but I'll put it in another message. Jack

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