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To: pass pass who wrote (10003)	12/30/2000 9:18:42 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Respond to of 12823

pass pass, Again, if the loop and its associated wiring, both in the outside plant _and_ the customer premises wiring assemblies, were designed around a reference model that was designed specifically for DSL, then it would be a snap. Such a model would not drive signals all the way back to the Central Office. Instead, they would converge on a neighborhood node, like the PON/FSAN model allows. Very few ILEC links fall under this model. Instead, most are hauled all the way back to the CO. But the outside plant wasn't designed for DSL from the outset. Therefore, you wind up with all of the hassle, trials and errors, and frustrations. The ILECs have to come to realize and accept the fact that they have a lot of embedded legacy stuff that was never intended to scale to today's, much less tomorrow's, expectations. I think the realization is striking home for some of them now, since some are at least experimenting with deep fiber under various architectures at this time. In the meantime, they must retain DSL as a placeholder offering. Otherwise, they would lose face altogether as the other constrained, albeit easier to install now, offerings take all of the marbles. The ILECs have to offer "something," in other words, in order to give the appearance of fending off, and maybe even taking share from, the MSOs et al. FAC