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To: Pigboy who wrote (9677)	3/10/1998 4:22:00 PM
From: Alan Aronoff	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21342

Piggly Wiggly, Just took a gander at Telechoice's opinion on the deal... telechoice.com <<It's also particularly interesting that NorTel did not chose to acquire NetSpeed, given its first-right-of-refusal based on its strategic/equity relationship. (See Story). With regards to the effect on minority-owner NorTel, they opted to waive their first right of refusal and will be eventually adding Cisco/NetSpeed products to their marketing channels. It will be interesting to see when these turnkey solutions will be made available to various service providers and the resulting impact on the DSL market as a whole. NorTel has yet to really make a mark on the DSL industry despite its alliances with two market-leading vendors -- Westell and NetSpeed.>> <<NetSpeed's expertise in DSL technology enables Cisco to offer telephone companies and other service providers an end-to-end DSL solution leveraging their existing infrastructure to accelerate integrated data, voice and video services to the home at affordable service rates. NetSpeed's solutions feature low-cost customer premise modems with a splitterless solution enabling "plug and play" and cost effective service provisioning. Both NetSpeed and Dagaz have implemented CAP-based solutions, further adding confusion to the whole standards battle in DSL.>>