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To: lml who wrote (4662)	7/15/1999 11:59:00 AM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12823

lml, Thanks for those helpful comments. They don't specify ADSL, they say DSL which includes [within the xDSL family] a member called IDSL. The second component of the release which leads me to think that it's IDSL is the fact that IDSL is the least powerful in the pecking order of DSLs, and therefore Earthlink might have been reluctant to highlight that fact on Day 1. Thirdly, UUnet was the SP who pioneered a nationwide rollout of IDSL about a year and a half ago, which makes it a fit. In all likelihood Earthlink will eventually wind up providing multiple flavors of xDSL, anyway. This was merely some musing on my part for discussion purposes (about which I may very well be wrong) and an attempt at academic exercise in second-guessing their PR folks. But we shall see. Regards, Frank Coluccio

To: lml who wrote (4662)	7/15/1999 1:08:00 PM
From: Curtis E. Bemis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12823

lml-- A couple of clarifications- 1. I agree, the Earthlink DSL offering is ADSL, either RFC1483 or ATM-25 (ATMF) or both, depending on whether the home user has a ATM NIC or not. 2. PacBells direct offering is ADSL, both of the above. 3. There are CLECs in PacBells copper plant. Rythms is one, and depending on where the customer is, the DSL offering could be either IDSL or ADSL in some flavor. PacBell is/was a little slow on the draw- The CLECs beat em and now they struggle to dominate. PacBell ran out of 5ESS ports and had to do something. BellSouth was about 3-4 months ahead of PacBell in getting into ADSL. The real question is-- What about HDSL-2, the faster standardized version ?? What will the ILECS do about that ??