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To: savolainen who wrote (1291)	6/18/1998 12:34:00 PM
From: Eric Goethals	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1998

Hi Sav, Re: everything adsl can do vdsl can do better etc etc... >>>Well almost, VDSL can only run 5000ft. <<< >> yes, and then only @ about 12.5 Mbps... :) The above is fine if you consider the home and small office user. But when you start talking about the Big Boy companies then I would like to add: Anything VDSL can do Fiber-Optic can do better. (And no waiting for chips). I contend that any company that has $$$ and needs bandwidth in Germany will not even consider ADSL or even VDSL. Case and point. Over the last month I have been watching our town in the industrial area pull apart the streets, run pipes and thread cables to every one of SAP's buildings. I have tried asking the workers what kind of cables they are running only to be told that they didn't know. So today I settled into my new office in one of SAP's new buildings. I now have FTMD. (Fiber to my desk) :-)) SAP- 4-5,000 some odd Walldorf employees. -Eric