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To: Jack Colton who wrote (37183)	3/3/1998 2:02:00 AM
From: pat mudge	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 61433

Jack -- From all I hear, telcos want the full ADSL, not G.Lite, even if they do start with the lesser speeds to get the market primed. They have to have enough speed to compete with cable. This means 6 to 8 Mbps ADSL and eventually 52Mbps VDSL. Pat

To: Jack Colton who wrote (37183)	3/3/1998 2:35:00 AM
From: blankmind	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 61433

it doesn't make sense to break everything up into 53 byte cells. - jack colton without the fixed packet size, atm would fail. the beauty of atm is the fixed packet size. i feel comfortable predicting we shall not see non-fixed sized atm packets. if you are suggesting atm packets will be of fixed larger byte cells, that is a possibility, but the packet size will be fixed.