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To: jack bittner who wrote (6012)	11/18/1999 12:20:00 AM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 12823

Hello Jack, You know, Edison and Westinghouse used to battle over AC and DC. And today we have one set of applications using AC where the other camp wanted DC, and vice versa. It's a real pip, isn't it? Tomayto, tomahtoe. Ask Jay Lowe, who frequents the Frank Coluccio board, where this is all headed. And while you're at it, tell him I have enough reading assignments to keep me busy for a while. Forgive me, but I didn't mean to be flip in responding to your point. I'm beginning to see that there's a growing list of reasons to begin believing in a form of transcendency through cannibalization... of all things that were once sacred, as the state of this art evolves. In an earlier post here, yesterday, I once again stated my belief that many of these protocols and line- and air- interfaces would eventually coexist, and that they would be adaptable to one another and between vendors wares, on the fly. Perhaps that's the end game you were referring to, as well, when you stated: "Will not someone find it by wedding the right technology for the best overall frequency to cover all usages w w lists and more: narrowband mobile, local loop, campus LANS, LMDS, point to point high capacity - all." I'm coming to believe in this "adaptability" approach more each day. And it wont be the vendors who push this approach, it will be the service providers. User demand will push the service providers into considering these options, and it will be the SPs who, in turn, will be pushing the vendors, for the vendors would be the last ones to want to concede to others formats and protocols... except for those one or two vendors, of course, who see the light, first. Comments and corrections welcome. Regards, Frank Coluccio