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To: bill c. who wrote (8161)	12/6/1997 11:30:00 PM
From: Terry Mitchell	Respond to of 21342

Bill, thanks for that link, it was very interesting. I had been under the impression previously that modem pooling for ADSL would be a desirable feature. Terry

To: bill c. who wrote (8161)	12/8/1997 2:12:00 PM
From: hal jordan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 21342

bill: did you actually expect Mr. Majeti to say anything good about a competitor's technology? >In the long run, the additional operations costs may exceed the capital gains because of modem pooling architecture.< I expect Netspeed is going to get a good percentage of its business from ISPs and CLECs due to this feature. RBOCs may or may not consider it important. However, not withstanding WSTLs comments, modem pooling is a good feature for RBOCs if you just consider the fact they like redundancy in equipment. If an ATU-C were to go down in Netspeeds architecture, a second ATU-C could take over. An RBOC can still do 1 to 1 ATU-R to ATU-C pooling and have a hot-spare automatically take over in event of failure. I think that is a rather important feature. Hal