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To: matt gray who wrote (18041)	12/18/1999 3:35:00 PM
From: E. Davies	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 29970

Once a virtual situation takes place now somebody needs to arrange for transport. Broadband transport over long distances that is controlled by the incumbent. Lets assume that the goal is "virtual" access. I assume then that you don't need co-location anymore- is this correct? A few problems exist: QOS issues, cost of bandwidth, provisioning and billing systems to mention just a few I want to be able to grasp these issues on a slightly deeper than superficial level. Could you go just a tiny bit deeper into explaining them? For example- how hard is it to have the router at the headend count the # of bits passing through based on what ISP and then report that back to a central place? You would think that the equipment people would gladly fall all overthemselves to develop whatever is needed to sell the system to the MSO's. Eric