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To: JayPC who wrote (21693)	5/3/2000 12:04:00 PM
From: gpowell	Respond to of 29970

Britton acknowledged that DSL resources are also shared, that multiple conversations or data transmissions are merged -- or, as he put it, "multiplexed" -- onto the same lines at Pac Bell's central switching office. Pacbell is doing the MSO's and ATHM a favor. If these ads become a real issue, the particulars of the differing architectures will become widely disseminated through the popular media. ATHM and the MSO's should sue - just for the exposure.

To: JayPC who wrote (21693)	5/3/2000 12:40:00 PM
From: ahhaha	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 29970

This isn't the way to handle the PacBell ad. Threatening a lawsuit proves ATHM management is incompetent. Lawsuit is childish and won't work. When someone attacks, you counter attack, but you can't do that with corporate policy ruled by Quiche Marin. What is the way to handle it? Address the equivalent truth. DSL is a shared resource. It's shared in the CO. The telcos will have to make substantial upgrade of every CO if they expect that DSL will come on strong. COs are not designed to manage terabit intensity at a point. One of the advantages of Medin's and Att's SLC design was caching at the node or elsewhere. This distributes the flow and makes the massive flows manageable. There is no way that this can be done with DSL. Consider the switching, buffering, and scaling complexities of all those flows coming into one point. The result is a gross hit on throughput regardless of upgrade and is the negative implied in "shared". Of course, they could build a lot more COs. Too bad ATHM hack management can't use what they have to counter attack. They can't because @Home is being transformed with Att's approval into Excite. The next change will be to drop @Home from the Excite@Home designation. The idea, cooked up by Bell, is to get rid of all that useless network. Maybe they will sell it to AOL or PacBell and then rent it from them.