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To: MikeM54321 who wrote (6700)	3/21/2000 4:47:00 AM
From: lml	Respond to of 12823

Re: . And I'm wondering if the RT ADSL service will be upgradeable to VDSL when SBC sees the demand is there? - Yup. Read some of the initial SBC Project Pronto releases. There's one that indicates an effort to deliver video by year end 2000. G-d knows where, maybe Fremont, in face of the T cable platform. Notwithstanding, part of the Project Pronto strategy is to ultimately compete with the MSOs for video broadcast services as well as VOD. A renewal of the original mission of the Pacific Telesis plan of the early 90s. As I understand it, installation of RTs and remote DSLAMing using ALA's Litespan and AFCI's UMC1000 is just the first phase of a multi-phase strategy by SBC to secure itself in the future of residential broadband communications that will include broadcast. The first phase is to shorten the copper loop to no more than 12K ft. I think to provision VDSL, the loop is gonna have be shortened to perhaps 5K ft. In that event, I foresee a deepening of the fiber plant as far as the cross-connect. Don't really know, just speculating, but I do know that VDSL is in the cross-hairs of SBC and its Project Pronto. No doubt about it.