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To: FR1 who wrote (12364)	7/14/1999 12:55:00 AM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 29970

Franz, I've maintained that equal access would be a bear to implement, but it's not impossible by any means. Especially on systems that don't already have a premier player like ATHM which is sticking to an architectural game plan, and plans to be compliant with DOCSIS standards, etc. But sparsely populated systems, and systems which do not have a consortium-defined allocation plan in place, can surely do this. GTE, for one, can. I'm not saying how the system will perform, but it will work, nonetheless. Even T has me confused on this. They are now testing low segment densities in SLC, bringing the cost down in the process (they say), and in the process they have stated that even an Ethernet-like network adapter can substitute for a cable modem. Well, if that's the case, they've succeeded in doing two things to aid the opposition! That is, they have (i) increased the total average bandwidth per user by some factor of at least 10- to 40- fold (50 to 75 users instead of the usual 500 to 2000), and they've (ii) made it possible to do away with DOCSIS compliance. (Of course, the latter will also cause disruption in the stated plans that were laid out in collaboration with CableLabs, which is cause for me to further speculate about the future of DOCSIS, in my eyes, at least.) Whew. I see what they're doing, but I'm a little suprosed to see how they are making it known. I have to ask myself if this was intentional, and are there other messages we should be detecting here? In one fell swoop, they've removed the barriers to openness. Do you or anyone else here feel the same way? Have you also noticed this contradiction, or the apparent cross-purposes, as it were, of their revelations concerning the results of their SLC trials, too? The old argument was (i) there wasn't enough bandwidth, and (ii) the DOCSIS standards wouldn't support multiple users. But now, with their new found efficiencies and doing away with the need for cable modems in favor of Ethernet NICs? <scratch scratch> Regards, Frank Coluccio