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To: Eric Goethals who wrote (31026)7/15/1998 9:08:00 AM
From: riposte  Read Replies (1) of 31386
 
Sprint doubts own ION plan

Sprint sez: "I WANT MY DMT!" (Well, sort of...)
-Steve

From NetworkFusion

Sprint doubts own ION plan


Converged voice/data net relies on unlikely RBOC cooperation.

By David Rohde
Network World, 7/13/98

Washington, D.C. - Sprint's super-efficient network capable of converging voice and data traffic over a single
broadband pipe won't likely be coming to your doorstep anytime soon.

Statements filed by Sprint Corp. with the Federal Communications Commission and obtained by Network
World reveal Sprint is not confident about obtaining the local access lines it needs to produce the Integrated
On-Demand Network (ION).

In language that at times directly contradicted statements by executives at the ION launch last month, Sprint
lawyers said they were "gravely concerned" about the carrier's ability to obtain digital subscriber line (DSL)
local loops needed to reach businesses and homes. ION, announced with much fanfare in June, is Sprint's new
combined local and long-distance architecture (see story, NW, June 8, page 1). The network is designed to
concentrate a user's voice, data and Internet traffic through an ATM device on the customer premises.



FULL TEXT @:
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