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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (4217)	11/5/2001 12:56:06 AM
From: Peter Ecclesine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 46821

Hi Frank, On simulators for the HFC plant, Cisco has cable labs in building 'O' and building 6, the latter with the cable plant of a city of 60,000. This means an entire headend, and all the cable modems of a city that size. Each with load drivers, so Superbowl Sunday can be recreated. Who needs simulators? petere Last I heard, 3Com had a 400 cable modem test room, but that was last year.

To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (4217)	11/5/2001 1:19:40 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Respond to of 46821

This provides some balance in reporting on the rigors of providing still-maturing video streaming services, and provides a contrast to the cablemodem experiences in the uplinked messages. It's from the ISP mailing list (NANOG), posted earlier today: ---begin snip: Subj: CNN video streaming To: nanog@merit.edu Recently we have been experiencing weird problems when accessing the CNN video content. Via certain ISPs only Real works, via others only WMP works, with yet others - neither works. Anyone have the same problems? ---end Isn't it neat to have diversity in choosing a m-m software vendor? smile FAC

To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (4217)	11/5/2001 3:26:34 PM
From: Mark Laubach	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 46821

Unfortunately, I haven't been looking closely at the network simulation market at all. There are some folks I've chatted with several weeks ago who are in the VoD over IP business who say they can't use DOCSIS due to downstream data capacity being too small. I haven't heard any specific details about downstream QoS or assurances. I'll keep an ear or two open however. Mark ps. that's Silicon Valley Techie....<g> currently at Rainmaker Technologies, Inc.