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To: Scott C. Lemon who wrote (11197)	6/12/2008 11:11:48 AM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Respond to of 46821

Scott Lemon on Bandwidth and the Coming Exaflood Technometria with Phil Windley 50 minutes, 22.9mb, recorded 2008-05-30 itc.conversationsnetwork.org -- An interesting listen, I thought. At one point, Scott, you make note of the decoupling of the electric utilities (theoretical as it often is) between generation and distribution. In telecoms we've seem variations on this theme being introduced periodically, often in pendulumatic fashion due to situational happenstance -- UNE-P/UNE-L yesterday, RBOC or MSO soup-to-nuts today. Perhaps the most familiar example of this came twenty some-odd years ago in the form of open access to direct distance dialing, which brought us pre-subscription (1+ dialing) services and "dial-around" (10-10-XXX) capabilities. From time to time I've hypothesized a similar form of 'open access' for first/last-mile high-speed Internet (HSI) access whereby the local loop is decoupled from the backbone provider either on a pre-subscribed basis or on the fly under the customer's (mouse-click) control. Interestingly, even the staunchest netheads I've approached with this concept have either given me a shopping of list of reasons why it would never fly, or pooh-poohed the idea outright. Hm.. ------