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To: Martin Atogho who wrote (12374)	7/13/1999 8:46:00 PM
From: E. Davies	Respond to of 29970

It would help you a lot to read this thread from the day the Portland decision was announced until today. The topic has been worked over many times. In my view the heart of the technical difficulty is that cable is a shared medium. Multiple ISP's would have to operate over the same wire without interfering with one another. It can be done, but would require a major reworking of both the technology and the management structure. Throw in a few ISP's who have a motivation to make sure it does not work and you have a potential disaster. @home is in essense aiming to be the worlds largest corporate intranet(and most difficult to manage) . The tight relationships they have with the cable operators means in essense the network is managed by a single organization. Throw in 16,000 ISP's (some with malicious intent) and lose the central network administration. Guess what happens next. Finger pointing of a scale not yet seen by man. Eric