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To: GraceZ who wrote (19485)	2/8/2000 10:57:00 AM
From: ahhaha	Respond to of 29970

"What we have here is a failure to urinate" --- from the RB board. ATHM has "Pure" fiber, but the last short segment on the order of 100 fts is coax. Coax can't be expected to handle much more than 10 mbps. In the short run say 2 - 5 years this is not a problem depending upon what the user is doing with bandwidth. It may be and is likely to be that in 10 years, we all will be using more than 10 mbps in home LANS. You can't plan with coax in mind. This is a very poor strategy. Western is designing their system to be easily upgraded FTTD when, as, and if, needed. In contrast Att won't be able to go this way so easily. Lightwire locks them in to the existing metal plant. Lightwire takes fiber deeper , but it is still a wrong approach because they're building on the existing structure where there are many compromises required. Those compromises will come to haunt Att in time and anyone else hostage to it in the last mile. The only node should be a PON splitter to the fiber drop. The mini-node is provisioned with caching servers and load balancing computers, amplifiers, address resolution and diagnostic modules. It's a mine field fraught with operating overhead.

To: GraceZ who wrote (19485)	2/8/2000 1:34:00 PM
From: KailuaBoy	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 29970

Grace, I don't get it. The MSO's already have fiber to the neighborhood. They aren't serving 30 to 60 homes but do people really think that they won't react to this threat by pulling more fiber? I don't see the competitive advantage that WIN has if the incumbent losers pull more fiber. The WIN story sounds great but the IL's could simply adopt the WIN plan in the WIN markets. Good for the consumer but I don't see the grim reaper visiting the IL's as a result of this.