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To: elmatador who wrote (5264)	9/17/1999 10:21:00 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12823

The Last Mile in Europe differ significantly from the US. The US market, has DLC -three generations- in their last mile. In Europe there are no DLC's there are Remote Stages. This owes to the fact that in Europe the feeder -or primary cable- is shorter than in the US. There are more concentration of population in a given area so the Carrier serving area is smaller than in the US: Having the DLC model of access, the US has much more vendors of access solutions. The First Generation DLC, that used PCM, connected to channel banks at C.O.- was an open access market. This allowed a large number of vendors of DLC solutions since anyone could produce DLC's and interconnect to the switch at voice level on the MDF. Compare the above with Europe. Having a Remote Stage-based access. The bulk of the market of Remote Stages have proprietary interfaces to the switch that can be provided only by the switch vendor. In Europe during digitalization (late 80s) -price of transmission already down, i.e., distance cost dependent negligible- the operators streamlined their networks. Less local exchanges -for example Germany went from 6.000 local exchanges down to 1.300- the old CO had the analog swicthes scrapped and replaced by remote stages. I'll come back to it.