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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (26563)	1/31/1998 8:20:00 PM
From: detroit denny	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 41046

Frank- are you married? We need someone like you in the family.Will send you pics of two daughters (g) GREAT post. What did he say. i thought i was trout fishing upstream and downstream.

To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (26563)	1/31/1998 8:27:00 PM
From: Jack Sman	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 41046

Frank ~ I usually maintain a low profile in these fora for various reasons, preferring to lurk, There are others more suited to lurking than yourself. Thanks for the insightful post. ~ Jack

To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (26563)	1/31/1998 11:10:00 PM
From: Seth L.	Respond to of 41046

Frank you need to participate more often. You offered more in one post than I do in 100. For those that need some expanded definitions on what Frank, Martin and Temp are talking about ADSL Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line - supposedly the next form of data communication because it will deliver and receive information on our current telephone lines at a much greater rate, or higher bandwidth speed. ADSL solves the bandwidth bottleneck to your home or business, over lines that already exist, your copper twisted pair telephone line. ADSL can transmit megabits, enough to outrun the Internet. ADSL will start connecting real customers in 1997. Once some special hardware is set up, an extremely nice thing about an ADSL connection is that it is possible to have one telephone line sharing at the same time both voice and computer modem access (since the ADSL signal is carried on a higher frequency than normal telephone communications). adsl.com ATM Asynchronous Transfer Mode - A high speed networking scheme and communication protocol designed with the transfer of multimedia data in mind. POTS or PSTN plain old telephone system or public switched telephone network the collection of interconnected systems operated by the various telephone companies and administrations(PTTs) around the world. The PSTN or POTS started as human-operated analogue circuit switching systems (plugboards), progressed through electromechanical switches and are now (1994) almost completely digital except for the final connection to the subscriber. Other things that make the PSTN less than bit-transparent include A-law to mu-law conversion or vice versa on international calls; robbed-bit signalling in North America (56kbps <--> 64 kbps); data compression to save bandwidth on long-haul trunks; signal processing such as echo suppression and voice signal enhancement such as AT&T TrueVoice. All this is in contrast to an integrated services digital network or ISDN. ISDN Integrated Services Digital Network - Provides the fastest commercially available link to the Internet. ISDN is a set of communications standards allowing a single wire or optical fibre to carry voice, digital network services and video. ISDN is intended to eventually replace the plain old telephone system or POTS. ISDN was first published as one of the 1984 ITU-T Red Book recommendations. The 1988 Blue Book recommendations added many new features. ISDN uses mostly existing Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) switches and wiring, upgraded so that the basic "call" is a 64 kilobits per second, all-digital end-to-end channel. Packet and frame modes are also provided in some places. TCP/IP Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol - This set of protocols makes TELNET, FTP, e-mail, and other services possible among computers that don't belong to the same network. protocol A specification that describes how computers will talk to each other on a network. Telnet An Internet program for connecting to a remote host or server. The Telnet interface is text based and a user usually has to enter their login name and password before gaining access to the system. Some of the things you can do with Telnet access include: check your e-mail, download a program, or chat with other Telnet users. It is one of the oldest Internet activities and is primarily used to access online databases or to read articles stored on university servers. It is also possible to Telnet via your Web browser by changing the http:// to telnet:// and entering in the site's address. FTP File Transfer Protocol - The common procedure or protocol used for downloading and uploading files via the Internet. With FTP you can login to another Internet site and transfer files. Some sites have public file archives that you can access by using FTP with the account name "anonymous" and your e-mail address as password. This type of access is called anonymous ftp. Macintosh users use a program called Fetch and one of the best FTP programs for Windows is WS-FTP. Hope this is helpful Seth

To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (26563)	1/31/1998 11:23:00 PM
From: Martin P. Smith	Respond to of 41046

Frank, thanks for the post. I have a couple of questions. 1) The ADSL connection is a continuous link. If you were to try to use this for VOIP how would incoming calls be handled at the destination end? Would it be over the exising POTS system OR via ADSL? I assume POTS since ADSL on the other end would introduce routing issues( the ADSL link is no longer actually the phone number but effectively a TCP-IP address.) If this is the case is there any benefit to sending the call through the xDSL side from the source 2) What costs will be involved in ADSL connections. These are going to be permanent connections. ISDN is similar in this respect and is comparatively expensive. I may be wrong but I think that plain phone to phone VOIP will likely rely on POTS for a number of years yet. When we start getting into dialed simultaneous Voice and Video over IP then xDSL may come into its own. Voice and Video over IP (VVOIP) will require hardware that the xDSL chip can be built into. I also imagine that Video phone numbers will be different from standard phone number (in fact most likely a TCIP type address) this would eliminate the need for lookups in the gateway. Thanks again for a very interesting post. Martin Smith

To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (26563)	2/1/1998 11:56:00 AM
From: Stephen B. Temple	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 41046

Frank C> Your indepth forward-looking statements in a few area's raise questions regarding Telephony and more importantly Franklin's products for the future. If we make the statement> "As we are seeing more and more, the computer is the network", then how do you see the (ATOM ASIC's / chips optimized for xDSL products), working in conjunction with the next generation of ADSL modems which will make internal cards a reality.? "As you know, these cards will be predominantly ATM-based and offer native ATM services within the PC". Since Franklin builds "ethernet cards", could a ATM/ADSL & TEMPEST-CARD be bulit for the PC, (home&office use), since as you said " this market is relatively new", have a chance for success.? You made the statement> "This does not minimize the role of gateways, rather, it extends the VoIP paradigm to yet another means of deployment: One that I feel will be more in line with the capabilities of the IP world in the future. But we ain't there yet". Is it your understanding that the "Tempest" in general as we know it, will also work hand-in-hand Through the TCP/IP session into the cloud _without*_ the need for entering a POTS switch?, at the area POP's? Or, how would you ultimately see the DVG's being utilized within the Business and Private Sector?. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I see Franklin's Telephony Service and no doubt "qualityofservice" with Worldcomm & MCI's ATM capabilities a real threat to the Telephone Companies as we know it? I also would like to envision a simple pattern to this Telephony mess and maybe you could shed some light here. Lets say for example that from the home or office, and since the market is leaning towards ATM/ADSL,(future), that we could setup this Network Senerio: By incorporating ATM technology into xDSL end-point devices, Franklin with the "Tempest" could be the "Virtual LAN / WAN"? and be able to offer low-cost ATM/DSL networks as well as several value added services, including the TRANSPARENT LAN services and high speed internet access? If your bypassing LEC's via Telephony, does that make any sense, and how might we make the "Tempest" a Point of which everything runs through? I personally get confused on which way this sector is going, but I think that the ATM-on-a-chip technology for DSL Networks, is going to show a Full-Green-Light in the future. Mind you I am just a skimmer when it comes to indept conservations, but intrigued nonetheless. In closing, I like to simplify FTel/FNet like this> 1. Products: a.) Producing the 'Tempest' for POP's b.) Producing a 'Tempest-like-card' for the PC home & office c.) Licensing the proprietary "protocol" 2. Service: a.) ATM/DSL cost-cutting technology b.) Access to all corporations,via FNet or Intranets c.) Fax, voice-mail, all the latest business apps d.) QOS Quality-of-Service Since the market for LDCarriers and LECarriers is open, could there ever be a time where we at "Franklin" (using their products), run from point-to-point throughtout the world without any interference except to be using the WCOM/MCI backbone? Now that's a Telephone Company, click on the mouse, while still on line and make you call anywhere-anytime for far less then a DIME!! Then of course, have the direct line into your PC, run into all the extra phone's you have in you home. yea!!! ps....off-topic> Out of the few companies that are manufacturing the ATM-on-a-chip, which one do you see as being the leader? Thanks for your response when you have time, your thoughts here are most refreshing to say the least. hi-temp' I think Frankln and others could easily re-write the phone-systems as we know it. Remember too that ADSL provides "interactive telephony" and digital services directly to the home or office. Also, standard dial-up systems DO NOT ALLOW users to talk on the phone while using the internet, while ADSL preserves the POTS (plain-ol-tele-service), while adding fast access to the Internet. Oh yea!! Frank, excuse me if some of this doesn't make sense. ggg