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To: ftth who wrote (5727)	10/29/1999 1:15:00 AM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Respond to of 12823

Dave, good article. The term first wall penetration in DUCT TAPE HAIR CLUB's (I can't believe I wrote that whole name out... sorry, DT) question seemed too obvious to me at first. I thought the author might have had some other, perhaps arcane, or esoteric, meaning in mind. I was thrown by the obvious. Frank

To: ftth who wrote (5727)	10/29/1999 11:27:00 AM
From: wonk	Respond to of 12823

...The key potential that we saw was for almost unlimited capacity to be delivered through the very high density frequency reuse that could be created and in many respects was an application of the work that was underway at the time in developing the new digital cordless telephone standards (DECT and PHS ) and built on the work at Bell Laboratories on what ultimately became PACS. PACS was actually Bellcore but other than that correction I don't disagree with the statement made at the beginning. PACS was (and I use the word was because no one seems to be deploying it) a really neat architecture. However to generalize, it's only commercially viable for the the incumbent local exchange carrier. The technology ran smack dab into the wireline culture of the ILECs. Unfortunate. ww