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To: axial who wrote (9343)	11/28/2000 5:45:52 AM
From: justone	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12823

Jim: I've also experienced interruptions on my old dial up, and now my cable modem, as you have described. I kept the old dial up and sometimes use it as back up. Now the dial up uses a phone line, so it is reliable. My cable tv works, and the Cable Modem's status lights tell me the HFC connection to the head end is ok. Thus I conclude it isn't the access that is unreliable, apparently, it is the server/routers/directory-number systems in the back end. The people in cablelabs defining the phone architecture are well aware of this- they are defining telephone services to be fully redundant (as a service provider option, though), just like the telephone network. You know what they say about the telephone network- it is so reliable even the internet can't screw it up. Hopefully, packet based voice will be more like the telephone network than the internet.