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To: pat mudge who wrote (29771)	12/8/1997 11:28:00 AM
From: Chemsync	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 31386

[Covad Debut] Happy Monday Pat, Lets start out with some high-speed news courtesy of Billy of the Cube thread. news.com Covad debuts high-speed access By Jeff Pelline December 8, 1997, 4:20 a.m. PT A start-up called Covad Communications today is announcing high-speed Internet access in the San Francisco Bay Area, including Silicon Valley, for as low as $90 per month, with a national rollout planned for next year. As previously reported by CNET'S NEWS.COM, Covad was expected to provide the access over copper phone wires, known as DSL (for digital subscriber lines) this year, largely aimed at telecommunters. But today the company provided pricing details. The service, dubbed TeleSpeedSM, will be offered to 400,000 homes and businesses in the Bay Area. Within 90 days, Covad and partnering Internet service providers expect to announce the service for small businesses. The pricing includes access rates of up to 1.1 mbps to and from the home for $195 per month; access rates of up to 384 kpbs to and from the home for $125 per month; access rates of up to 144 kpbs to and from the home for $90 per month. Customers also must pay a $325 installation fee. The DSL service is expected to compete with the Baby Bells, including Pacific Bell in the Bay Area, which are rolling out their own high-speed Net access. But they face stiff competition from cable-modem service providers as well, including @Home in the Bay Area. "We are proving that the Telecommunications Act of 1996 is working by offering corporations and Internet service providers an alternative to existing telecommunication providers and by rapidly deploying new services at affordable prices," Covad CEO Chuck McMinn said in a statement. The act has made the launch of companies such as Covad possible. Covad says its network connects the central office to a corporation using a private network. It is privately held and funded by E.M. Warburg Pincus, Crosspoint Ventures, and Intel.

To: pat mudge who wrote (29771)	12/8/1997 11:31:00 AM
From: Charlie Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 31386

[MOT heard from] Pat: From Inter@ctive Week: zdnet.com

To: pat mudge who wrote (29771)	12/9/1997 3:06:00 AM
From: Milkman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 31386

Pat, I spent several hours working on the translation... ALCATEL WILL BE TAKING PART IN THE INTERNET FESTIVAL Paris, December 3, 1997 - Today Alcatel is joining the project launched by the IFI (French Initiative for the Internet), and will be taking part in the Internet Festival on the 20th and 21st of March, 1998. This event aims at awakening not just the general public but also the decision makers and members of national and local government, to the risk France is running - unless something is done fast - of falling behind in the explosively-expanding domain of the Internet and multimedia. Yet the technological solutions already exist and Alcatel - a French-born group - is one of the leading players in this field. This is why it has decided to take the opportunity of the Internet Festival to help make these solutions more widely known. During the Internet Festival Alcatel will organize open days on its sites specialized in multimedia and Internet technologies. The public will thus be able to get a "hands-on" introduction to the new information technologies through the various Internet access terminals placed at its disposal, and see numerous demonstrations. Alcatel will also be setting up a videophone link with Silicon Valley in order to communicate with French expatriates living in California and exchange views and experience concerning current technology and developments, and the utilization of these new methods of communication. To coordinate these actions, and any others which might turn out to be of interest between now and the month of March, Alcatel proposes placing two representatives at the disposal of the Festival organizers. Alcatel is involved in all the information technology sectors, ranging from the user in front of his access terminal, or the distribution of services, to the large infrastructure networks of information highways. Alcatel's products cover the needs of telecom carriers, Internet access providers, companies and private individuals. They range from Internet telephones to GSM mobile telephones giving access to the Internet; from the optical fibre links forming the backbone of information highways to SkyBridge, the multimedia satellite constellation, not to mention the ADSL modems which reduce Internet access times by a factor of 200. alcatel.com I had some help. I guess Alcatel is a bit embarrased that they have to wake up their own government. More significant is the announcement below. With the standard for DSL-LITE still 6-12 months away and introduction of this feature with their 3rd Generation chip set, the time lines start to match up. Once again Alcatel Marketing has provided the road map to Nervana. Go west untill you smell it, then go south until you step in it. ALCATEL ANNOUNCES A RATE ADAPTIVE DMT SOLUTION FOR ADSL-LITE WITH ITS STANDARD-COMPLIANT DSLAM Paris, December 5, 1997. Alcatel has taken a further step in its continuing effort to improve the ease of use and ease of installation of ADSL. It has demonstrated a high-speed ADSL service that does not need a POTS splitter to be installed in the subscriber's home. The "splitterless" ADSL service is offered over the existing Alcatel DSLAM and ADSL modem. This further extends the range of services that can be offered with the Alcatel DSLAM to include a rate-adaptive splitterless ADSL-Lite service in addition to the full rate ADSL service. Moreover, the demonstration confirms that splitterless ADSL with simultaneous POTS services can be interoperable with DMT standard-compliant (T1.413) equipment. Alcatel is active in contributing to the different standardisation bodies currently working on a "Lite" version of ADSL and ensuring that ADSL-Lite modems will be able to interwork with existing standard-compliant DSLAMs. Operators and service providers therefore have choice in offering a wide range of services to subscribers connected to a single type of ADSL DSLAM. This can range from several hundreds of kilobits to multiple megabits, with or without POTS splitters at the subscriber site. ADSL subscribers can be offered service upgrades with an optional installation of a POTS splitter to maximise performance. Alcatel aims at commercially offering support for ADSL-Lite on its third-generation ADSL DSLAM. The highly-programmable, rate- adaptive DMT chipset currently used in the Alcatel ADSL equipment already offers the flexibility needed to implement this solution. This new development for splitterless ADSL represents a further move by Alcatel to ensure mass-market availability of high-speed Internet access based on a single, standardised ADSL technology. Recently, Alcatel has announced other ADSL products improving ADSL's ease of use, such as the ADSL PC-NIC card with Plug 'n Play support (shown at Interop '97, Atlanta) and the ADSL modem with USB interface (shown at Comdex '97, Las Vegas). This solution offers operators a range of variants, including versions with and without splitters to allow them to extend their service offerings taking into account commercial, regulatory and installed base parameters. In addition, several variants of POTS splitters are available to maximise ADSL performance, as part of easy-to-install solutions. Alcatel's main customers for ADSL technology are Singapore Telecom, the American operators Ameritech, BellSouth, Pacific Bell and SouthWestern Bell, Telia in Sweden, British Telecom and, more recently, Bell Canada, Belgacom, Telefonica in Spain and France Telecom. Pilot projects have also been ordered by Korea, Japan and Denmark. Today Alcatel holds over 30% of world market, making it the world leader in ADSL technology. Alcatel company propaganda Deleted alcatel.com Regards, Milkman