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To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (19630)	3/25/2002 1:35:04 PM
From: David Hansen	Respond to of 21876

Ken, Are you talking about SBCIS? SBCIS is the Internet access subsidiary of SBC. It includes five regional brand names and their respective regionally based operations: Pacific Bell Internet Services Southwestern Bell Internet Services Ameritech Internet Services Nevada Bell Internet Services SNET Internet I think this is the group that is about to market their services as Prodigy Internet with SBC... SBCIS has standardized on Cisco for the core backbone. The company does not operate any Frame Relay or ATM switches; rather, connections for those services are terminated on the big Cisco routers. They use Fujitsu fiber multiplexers, but the local exchange carrier (LEC) side of the business owns equipment. With SBC, the data competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC) owns and operates the ATM switches and digital subscriber line access multipliers (DSLAMs) (provided by Alcatel and Cisco). SBCIS has some ATM aggregation in its own network. In some of the higher end POPs, where the network has a lot of RedBack switches and requires aggregation, Lucent GX550s are used to consolidate the number of connections. Also, Lucent TNT is the Remote Access server standard.... With the Internet On-Ramp, Project Pronto, etc... It seems they are due for a successful launch just out of sheer luck if nothing else... There is a real history here of screwing things up.