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To: DR.TECH who wrote (10392)	4/29/1998 6:31:00 AM
From: bill c.	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 21342

[ Want speed? Look for an ADSL Internet line ] High-speed link goes fast enough to change how you think about work Monday, April 27, 1998 By Ken Zapinski, Post-Gazette Staff Writer Imagine that during the day, you could zip around town in your car at 60 mph. But after 5 p.m. and on weekends, you were slowed to a crawl, forced to drive no faster than 2 mph. That is the dilemma faced by most Americans wired into cyberspace. At the office and at school, we enjoy wonderful high-speed connections to the Internet or corporate networks. We zap e-mail and download files at lightning speeds. But at home, we must rely on pokey, telephone-dialing modems that can deliver a tiny fraction of the performance we're used to. Well, buckle up. Pittsburgh is about to get a lot faster. Bell Atlantic Corp. is wrapping up a test here of technology that promises to make the ordinary copper telephone wires to your house nearly as fast as a standard commercial-grade fiber-optic link. And the computers can remain hooked into the Internet around the clock because the phone line can carry voice and data traffic at the same time. If the technology, known as ADSL or asymmetric digital subscriber line, delivers on its promise, it could have a profound impact on how we work, play and learn. And Pittsburghers will be among the first to find out. Bell Atlantic will begin offering the service commercially later this year, with this market as one of its initial targets..... post-gazette.com

To: DR.TECH who wrote (10392)	4/29/1998 11:27:00 AM
From: Vladimir Zelener	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 21342

Dr << However, any of these internet analyst's that have been rec. YHOO,XCIT,AMZN will be wrong if the industry does not deploy broadband services.>> I will not argue that the analysts recomending YHOO, XCIT and AMZN might (quite likely) proove to be wrong, but I am not buying your argument about last mile bandwidth either. The above companies can (and do) provide their services quite successfully over 56KBps modems. The only thing that will stop their irrational grouth is the competition. The services that could utilize the broadband of the last mile do not exist right now. They will begin to appear only when the high speed connectivity to a PC is mass deployed. At least IMHO.

To: DR.TECH who wrote (10392)	4/29/1998 6:06:00 PM
From: bill c.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21342

>> Redback deal enables Westell customers to stack multiple Dslams in a CO and provides are more efficient and lower cost per line. << Positive - They can stack several Westell DSLAMs in a CO. Negative - They can mix and match low cost DSLAMs in the CO... (ex) Alcatel, CSCO, Diamond, Westell etc. It seems the SMS-1000 features are in direct conflict with the new Westell DSLAM solution. ...Westell's DSLAM is the only product available today that allows the end-user to select their service provider. Prior to the introduction of the SuperVision DSLAM, only single service provider solutions were available to subscribers. This has been a significant limiting factor in all telecommunications service provider deployments, as users want to connect to the corporate Local Area Network (LAN) during the day and their Internet Service Provider (ISP) at night .... westell.com This is one of the many features of the SMS-1000. Maybe I'm looking at this wrong, but something isn't adding up. >> The industry is moving in this direction. << Good news for Redback... not sure of the advantages for Westell. PETALUMA, Calif., April 21, 1998 -- To enable Internet Service Providers to quickly and easily scale up to meet growing customer demand for high speed access services, Diamond Lane Communications, a technology leader in xDSL data access systems, announced today it will resell the RedBack SMS 1000 - an intelligent networking, subscriber management device - as part of its SpeedlinkT system's end-to-end solution... redbacknetworks.com >> Las Vegas should be interesting westell will be demonstrating DMT equipment. Also first show with their DMT/CAP DSLAM. << This will be good news!! Will the DMTcards have MOT or TI chips? Are the CAP chips ready for the BEL deployment?... until later.