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To: Boplicity who wrote (12314)	7/12/1999 3:17:00 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Respond to of 29970

Thanks, Greg. We'd covered this last week on the LM thread when Hiram posted it there. The part you bolded also caught my eye at that time, as well: "You can utilize some kind of Ethernet off-the-shelf product as the cable modem." What does this portend for the future of DOCSIS? And your italicized comment concerning the 250 MHz opening up also caught my eye the other day. Yes, this combined with the former, and some tweaking of the upstream allocations, do collectively address the creation of adequate capacity (a quarter of a gig extra per reduced size segment- not trivial) to allow other ISP players onto the system. What they are doing would appear, on the surface at least, to be making provisions for same in an unspoken way. While I'm on the subject, someone correct me if I'm mistaken, but isn't Ethernet the approach that was used in Boston about four or five years ago by Continental, prior to their being taken out by USW? And isn't a more fundamental adaptation of Ethernet without the DOCSIS enhancements also used in some parts of Cablevision (of Westbury's) systems? Corrections and comments welcome. Regards, Frank Coluccio