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To: Robert Scott who wrote (11991)	7/1/1999 9:05:00 PM
From: Hiram Walker	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 29970

Good article on T future micronode architecture,its gonna be 50 subs per node,less electronics in the last mile. cabledatacomnews.com AT&T Eyes Fiber-Rich Architecture Mini-Fiber Node Test in Salt Lake City May Have Implications for Cable Modem Market July 1, 1999 At an analyst briefing in June, AT&T Labs executives detailed plans for the fiber-rich passive network architecture AT&T Broadband & Internet Services (formerly TCI) plans to start testing in Salt Lake City, Utah this fall. The plan is to use dense wave division multiplexing (DWDM) fiber transport from a regional cable headend, through "transparent" distribution hubs to MuxNodes feeding mini-fiber nodes (mFNs) serving an average of 50 homes passed. The mFN serving area would be small enough to eliminate active plant components on the final coaxial run to the home, boosting network capacity and reliability, while reducing operating costs. If the AT&T trial proves successful it could lead to a new evolutionary path for DOCSIS products, promoting simplicity and cost-reductions in customer premise equipment (CPE) designs, and distributing now centralized cable modem termination system (CMTS) functionality throughout the network. AT&T will begin testing the architecture in Salt Lake City in October. The test area will encompass 520 miles of plant serving 66,619 homes passed. General Instrument, Harmonic Inc. and C-Cor.Net have been tapped as key vendors for the effort. Does anyone have an article on ATHM's backbone architecture? I thought is was OC-48,but someone is telling me its T-1 lines. Hiram

To: Robert Scott who wrote (11991)	7/1/1999 10:03:00 PM
From: gpowell	Respond to of 29970

Your post made me laugh. The problem is not the upload cap it's the reliability of the service. My service was down 24 days in May. I've not been able to drop my dial up account or the second phone line as a result. Let me tell you though, on those occasions where I had to use my dial up account, it was tough going back to a 56k modem. I wonder how much time is wasted in this country just waiting for pages to load? Hell, with @Home I could surf the web, download NT Service pack 5, and listen to radio stations from around the country at the same time (there is nothing funnier than Dallas sports talk radio). But the reliability of the service was/is not near where it needs to be to satisfy joe blow public. First entry users are willing to put with service problems to a certain extent but that time is passing rapidly. I've beleive flashnet is advertising DSL service locally for about the same price as cable. I wonder if this motivated TCI to rebate monthly fees?