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To: Abel Vieira who wrote (3428)	11/20/1997 1:58:00 PM
From: John Kriedel	Respond to of 6570

i agree all this talk is great but that all it is until I see where there mouth is. If it wasn't for the spikes I wouldn't even consider this issue. Needs to go North or northwest.

To: Abel Vieira who wrote (3428)	11/20/1997 2:16:00 PM
From: Rich Dondo	Respond to of 6570

reprint of an old article, in the EBN rag, but should stir interest Cable-modem sales boom predicted Silicon Valley Despite the hype surrounding the rollout of 56-Kbit/s dial-up modems for the Christmas season and the emergence of viable xDSL equipment, cable modems are going to play an important role in regard to Internet access in the future, according to Gerry Kaufhold, who tracks multimedia markets for In-Stat Inc., Scottsdale, Ariz. "The exponential growth of Internet users at home and in offices has turned the World Wide Web into the World Wide Wait," Kaufhold said. "It takes far too long to download graphics-intensive Web sites as it is now, and once you start adding in streaming audio files, Shock Wave and trade animations, and low-resolution video clips, download time becomes a critical issue." The key to success for cable modems, Kaufhold said, is that dial-up modems won't be able to deliver the bandwidth demanded by emerging applications. By comparison, cable modems will use cable-TV systems to deliver access speeds of up to 20 Mbits/s. But cable-modem equipment entails substantial up-front investment by cable-TV operators, and that is slowing growth to a neighborhood-by-neigh- borhood introduction, Kaufhold said. "The rollout is going to be incremental." In-Stat forecasts that cable-modem sales will jump from 171,000 shipped units this year to more than 10 million in 2001. Revenue from cable-modem sales is expected to grow from $79 million in 1997 to $2.1 billion by 2001.