Sprint may become our ADSL Santa. I don't know what it directly means for Westell, but when ADSL becomes hot, we know Westell is nearby and sparks may ignite it too.
techweb.com
Sprint To Launch ION Network In January
(12/07/98, 3:04 p.m. ET)
By Mo Krochmal, TechWeb
Sprint said Monday it will roll out its
Integrated On-Demand Network (ION)
services in January to big businesses, but
consumers and small businesses will have
to wait until 2000.
The ION strategy is being implemented in
partnership with Cisco and Bellcore to
provide "virtually unlimited bandwidth"
over single telephone lines. Sprint's
service, and others like it, will let
customers receive bigger slices of data,
voice, and video over existing copper
lines, tying those services into one system
that is based on an IP architecture. ....
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The local loop, the last mile to the actual
home or small business, has been the
biggest hurdle to the deployment of
broadband for consumers.
"We have been working diligently on the
local-loop issues since a big component
of Sprint ION is taking the network and
deploying it to the customer premises,"
said Anderson.
Sprint has been deploying its own DSL
equipment in central offices. "We are
using a combination of building it out
ourselves and leveraging the existing plant
to deploy high-speed access to small
businesses, branch offices of large
businesses, and consumers," Anderson
said.
All the best,
Michael
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