Gary, No need to respond to this post. I'm just providing some FACTS.
Ameritech is IBM and Cisco split, GTE is Fujitsu, Bell Atlantic and Bell South appear to be Alcatel, SBC is Alcatel and Cisco, AT&T appears to be going after cable - I see no move on DSL for them but they with TCI/@home and the Time Warner deal it appears they believe in coax. (I think they're right)
Ameritech is an Alcatel account, GTE selected Fujitsu/Orctf, Bell Atantic has a 4 year contract, and Bell South deployed the Alcatel DSLAM. SBC belongs Alcatel, provide a link to the Cisco ADSL deployment in SBC. AT&T doesn't own twisted-pair copper access to the home. The RBOC's/GTE own it.
None of the above companies post actual numbers of deployments. Total number of lines is also not available on public sites for Alcatel, Fujitsu, Siemens, Ascend or Cisco which only leads me to believe that this information is proprietary.
I was under the impression you knew the number of USWest lines deployed. Your entire theory was based on those USWest deployment numbers. Now you are going to tell the thread you don't have a clue what those numbers are?
Your point about Microsoft is wrong... I can assure you. Funny... Even my friends got a laugh out of that one.
Actually the joke is on you and your friend. I guess 1,000 MSFT employees working with GTE on ADSL is nothing.
GTE Expands Microsoft Trial and Launches Two New ADSL Trials Major News.
May 6, 1997 -- GTE reinforced its commitment to ADSL today when it announced its intention to add 1,000 Microsoft employees to its trial in Redmond, Wash. trial.....
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GTE Promises 300 COs Across 16 States With DMT-Based Fujitsu/Orckit
...In the first of two phases, GTE will convert its current ADSL trials into broad-market deployment, enabling customers in portions of Beaverton, Ore., Durham, N.C., West Lafayette, Ind., and Redmond and Kirkland, Wash. GTE's current ADSL market trials involve more than 1,300 users, including some 1,000-plus Microsoft employees, a small number of Intel employees in Oregon, plus students, faculty and scientists at Duke University Medical Center and Purdue University...
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The more you post on this subject, the clearer it becomes you don't understand DSL. |
