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To: Ray Smith Jr who wrote (23857)	6/1/1998 1:27:00 PM
From: Laker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36349

"DSL is One Big Mess" is the headline from "Network World" delivered to me today. Also contains an article about the Cisco products. I don't have time to find it on the web but the publisher has a site at www.nwfusion.com. BTW i keep dropping my buy orders (from 15 7/8 to 15 3/8) and finally cancelled the 15. The NASDAQ/tech stocks are sick and I am not sure I want to buy at levels that aren't 10% better than today's prices. I need some comfort on the downside.

To: Ray Smith Jr who wrote (23857)	6/1/1998 6:28:00 PM
From: stevie ray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36349

Ray... great article! Reasons to keep the faith: << This week, Rockwell will roll out two versions of a 56K/ADSL chipset, both of which will use Falcon, a technology licensed from PairGain Technologies Inc., Tustin, Calif., that is based on ADSL and Discrete Multitone (DMT) line code. "Having a DSL [modem] only is not going to be good enough for consumers," said Mike Neshat, director of client DSL products at Rockwell's Personal Computing Division, Newport Beach, Calif. "We believe that [a hybrid 56K/ADSL modem] will be required for the next two years because not every place in the world will offer DSL services." Rockwell's chipsets support the V.90, full-rate ADSL and G.Lite standards. One of the chipsets is a three-chip solution designed for external modems that incorporates Falcon, an analog IC, and a V.90 device that supports Universal Serial Bus. The other chipset, designed for internal modems, includes Falcon, an analog front-end interface, and a PCI-based ASIC.>>

To: Ray Smith Jr who wrote (23857)	6/1/1998 7:07:00 PM
From: Joe Pirate	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36349

<<At present, there are several different-and incompatible-flavors <<of xDSL competing in the market,including Asymmetric DSL <<(ADSL), G.Lite (Universal DSL), High-Bit-Rate DSL (HDSL), <<HDSL2, Rate-Adaptive DSL (RADSL), Single-Line DSL(SDSL), <<and Very-High-Bit-Rate DSL (VDSL). "competing in the market" Nice article, but the above just shows you that the guy who wrote it doesn't know jack $hit about DSL and its place in the market. HDSL doesn't compete with VDSL or ADSL, ADSL doesn't compete with VDSL, etc.. Each flavor has an application in the infrastructure... You can't replace HDSL with ADSL or VDSL for example, VDSL, is high speed at short distance, ADSL is high speed downstream, slow upstream, HDSL is a good T1 replacement. Why do you think there are different flavors of DSL, that is where the x in xDSL comes in! :] I thought I was a dork, but he is dorker! Is dorker a word ? :] Pirate P.S. PAIR vs. Godzilla... Go PAIR !!!! <roar> <chomp>