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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (457)	7/19/2000 1:40:02 AM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 46821

Hi Frank, Re: Throttling Cable Modem connections - You said: Today, for the most part, these traffic management capabilities don't exist on cable networks. And where they do exist, they haven't been invoked, at least not that I'm aware of. But they are available. I recall Milo Medin, CTO of ATHM was asked about this at Gilder's Telecosm '99 (Sept. '99). He indicated that at that time, there was a limit enforced on the upsteam bitrate that was significantly lower than than the downstream rate. They had run into a problem in their Fremont,CA build among other systems wherein certain users were violating terms-of-use clauses and utilizing their home based systems as servers, completely overwhelming the network at times. Sorry, but I don't recall the bitrate figures, it's been a long time since I followed that webcast. So, I believe Jay's concern about the under-capacity of the ATHM network to handle large flows of DVD files is prescient. Best, Ray