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To: Ian@SI who wrote (13100)	8/30/1999 1:38:00 PM
From: zbyslaw owczarczyk	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 18016

AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- AT&T Solutions will design, build and manage a technologically unique, hybrid ATM-frame relay backbone network for the State of Texas -- featuring leading-edge technology from a variety of vendors -- to deliver next-generation services to state and local government agencies. The backbone network will consist of network switches and transmission facilities for the transmission of digital information in the form of frames (or cells) between end-user termination ports. It will support user termination ports from DS0 to OC 12. AT&T will provide access services consisting of the end link between agencies' locations and the user termination/backbone node in AT&T's point of presence (POP) or, in the case of long-distance services, the voice switching node in AT&T's POP. Access service will be provisioned through a variety of technologies, including fiber, digital cable, digital radio. Access capacities include DS-0 through OC48. From this platform, AT&T will provide state and local government agencies across Texas a robust portfolio of services: AT&T Frame Relay/ATM Network Service AT&T Local Services AT&T Frame Relay Service Options AT&T Wireless Services AT&T Calling Card Services AT&T IntraLATA Toll Services AT&T Dedicated Hosting Services AT&T MultiQuest© 900 Services AT&T WorldNet© Managed Internet Service AT&T Toll-Free Services AT&T Business Long Distance Services AT&T Private Line Services Directory services Interpreter services About AT&T/AT&T Solutions Group AT&T (http://www.att.com) is the world's premier provider of voice and data communications, with more than 80 million customers, including businesses, government and consumers. AT&T operates the world's largest, most powerful long-distance network and the largest wireless network in North America. The company is a leading supplier of data and Internet services for businesses and the largest direct Internet service provider to consumers in the U.S. AT&T also provides local telephone service to a growing number of businesses. AT&T Solutions Group (www.attsolutions.com) provides seamless managed and outsourcing solutions that maximize the competitive advantage of networking-based electronic commerce and other networked applications. It uses state-of-the-art tools to operate and manage voice, data, video and Internet/intranet services, including local and wide area networks, PBXs, voice-processing systems and voice and data terminals. NOTE: For further information, please refer to the other three releases issued by the Company. SOURCE: AT&T

To: Ian@SI who wrote (13100)	8/30/1999 9:12:00 PM
From: gbh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 18016

Do you see the carriers continuing to build, operate, administer and manage 2 or more distinct networks? one for Voice, another for data and perhaps if they like this philosophy so much, another for image? Ian, of course. Especially the larger, highly capitalized carriers. The smaller ones may only deploy a single network infrastructure type, but it certainly won't always be ATM based. Some will, some won't. IP over SONET (or even direclty over DWDM) will be suitable (and cheaper) for those niche carriers where QoS is not important. Here's an interesting article (somewhat dated, but actually more relevant now, than when it was written). data.com Note the highly contrary view to Fumble's view on the relative simplicity of POS versus AOS. ... or could you conceive that they just might like to have one integrated network with the resulting "potential" increases in efficiency and effectiveness? I think the referenced article addresses a "lack of efficiency" of ATM. But besides this, there is no single panacea in the networking world. ATM will get its fair share of edge and backbone wins. But even NN knows it will have to adapt to an IP world. And if you were a carrier, would you prefer to put all your eggs in a CSCO IP basket or a NN ATM basket? Depends on the type of network I was building. I certainly wouldn't choose NN for IP, yet :) I would be inclined to pick NN (or LU) for ATM. But I wouldn't start by assuming that all posters on this thread are naive. I would never "assume" any poster was naive. gary