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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (6105)	11/27/1999 9:29:00 AM
From: Kenneth E. Phillipps	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12823

Frank - Two articles of interest re ISPs and dial up access. From Inter@ctive Week - "Under existing telecom rules, ISPs interconnect with incumbent telephone companies as customers. The rates that incumbents charge to ISPs to put dial-up traffic on existing voice switches are sky-high." With Redback's new feature, ISPs can use Redback's box to connect directly to switching facilities of long-distance carriers bypassing the SS7 networks operated by incumbent local phone companies. zdnet.com From Nortel - Nortel Networks Announces Dial and DSL Access Subscriber Services on a Single Platform siliconinvestor.com Nortel says this will benefit wholesalers of dial-up and DSL access.

To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (6105)	11/28/1999 1:29:00 AM
From: jack bittner	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 12823

Frank, i am astonshed at what must be the depth of your archives, that you can respond at about 2.5 Gbp/s with that number of post citations on a given subject. probably more and faster on subjects about which you are even more interested. would you say that your experience with dense fog means that: a)photons can at best supplement radio frequencies; or b) no one can seek to offer photonic-only last mile transmission without radio wireless backup(i.e. role reversal of a)) knowing the physics as well as you do, would you say only a magician could overcome the fact that light will bounce back off fog? but, then, radio is also affected by weather. but significantly less so? are we doomed to be forever tethered to a wire for dependable data transmission? Lucent says by year-end 2000 they'll be up to 20 Gbp/s by using 8 waves. that's a breathtaking expansion of bandwidth. considering that, isn't it baked in the cake that laser transmission must become dominant in the last mile, with radio as a weather back-up? if that's true, then re WTC's query about winstar, nextlink and teligent's footprints: would you say they're safe, but they'll have to offer photons as the prime transmission vehicle with their present systems as a backup?