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To: fred g who wrote (11791)	10/18/2005 12:27:05 AM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Respond to of 46821

Hi Fred, The time frame of Terayons ascendance was not 2003, rather it was 1998-1999, when GG made it one of his favorites. This was the period where my earlier comments applied. And in the majority of situations, yes, older systems were targeted, those that were still using daisy chained, bidirectional amps, and some systems were still based on dual-coax, using one pipe for each direction. You got it, 450 MHz systems with ingress-prone splits. But later on, Terayon, to the best of my knowledge, made their CMs dual-mode capable, supporting both S-CDMA and standard DOCSIS, at the operator's discretion. Recall, the main pitch was to operators who were maitaining legacy, earlier generation systems. They were not well-heeled, often financially depressed, and the value proposition was to allow them to compete with Cable Modem at higher speeds, while avoiding the cost of HFC upgrades. And they could do this, the argument went, by virtue of the improved noise margins that the S-CDMA modulation scheme afforded them. And these were mostly smaller, independent operators. On the matter of FiOS' quality, I now see what you are saying. Your focus is on the regulatory, whereas I thought you meant Verizon's voice quality over FiOS was inferior. And why that struck me was because an associate of mine on Long Island recently became a FiOS subscriber and on two separate occasions that I've spoken to him over his new voice line I've noticed auditory artifacts, dropouts and studder, when he didn't hear any susch thing. And in his case he was getting local 60 Hz hum from his local network interface device onto his in home wiring, which I didn't hear. He has since reported the problems to VZ and I'm awaiting word from him as to the outcome. But it was in this context that I thought you meant VZ's FiOS was inferior for voice. FAC