To continue from this afternoon,
>>The g.lite standards and products that come to market in late 1999/ early 2000....It will not (at least initially, and probably for a long time) support the features that many businesses are looking for: managed data services, QOS guarantees, high guaranteed upstream data rates, etc. So this is really not a solution for the market space where virtually all the CLEC DSL activity is now -- in small and medium business. These customers are mostly buying 384kb/s symmetric SDSL services from their DLECs, and it is hard to see where any announced collaborations really address this market space. <<
Agreed. Have you checked out some of the rates the data CLECs are asking for fractional T speeds? They're higher in some cases than those for ILEC T1s [okay, there are other things at the ISP level being thrown in at times, but still... the rates they are asking are way high, IMO.
>>I won't try to explain thought processes at even one ILEC, but I would suggest that it has to be a mistake to try to characterize thinking at multiple ILECs monolithically.<<
Touche! Old habits don't die quickly. But you are right.
>>... and BLS and BEL seem from my perspective to be trying to make DSL services roll outs work. The perhaps fair criticism of BLS and BEL is that they might be trying to do too much for DLECs in the loop qualification arena, when the DLEC just wants a loop and he will see if he can make it work.<<
That's an interesting insight that I had not heard before. Thanks.
>>You followed with a great anecdote that no one who has been near where you worked would doubt for a moment. Maybe we are lucky that the DSL provisioning process is handled out of exchange services, rather than special services, at least in BEL. Those special services guys, well, you captured it well.<<
I see that you too have had the pleasure.
Regards, Frank C.
ps - do you notice how I kinda mellow out after dinner? ;-) |
