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To: DenverTechie who wrote (1610)	7/20/1998 8:01:00 PM
From: MikeM54321	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12823

"The phone company achieves this little miracle by putting a POTS splitter in front of the circuit switch to split off the data service like Internet access to its broadband network, while your voice message goes on to the circuit switched network with the big CO switch just like it always has." DenverTechie, Fantastic answers to both my question, and P.T. Burnem's. I'm not sure if I'm more knowledgeable than I used to be, or your answer were so lucid, but I understood everything you said! Let me ask you another now, if you don't mind. The "splitter" you mention above. Now isn't this something that is built right into the packet switched equipment that a data networker, like Ascend, might supply a telco? That's what I read about two years ago. From what I vaguely recall, it wasn't a separate gizmo(how do you like that technical term) but was integrated into the packet switch. Do you know if this is the case? Thanks, MikeM(From Florida)

To: DenverTechie who wrote (1610)	7/20/1998 8:13:00 PM
From: drmorgan	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 12823

DT -- I'm planning on switching my ISDN service over to RADSL very soon now as RADSL is available (256k $40/month) in my area. One thing I'm wondering about is the CO. In my area (Salt Lake City) there are many affluent neighborhoods who are not close enough to the CO. In fact there are thousands of people who can get the service but I can tell you that knowing these areas and the average income in those areas, it's not going to happen. Sure some people will sign up but US West cannot expect nearly the percentages of sign up's that they would get from affluent areas. Our suburbs have exploded with growth and that is where the money is. What can be done to offer (the people with $$) DSL to the areas that will have good percentages of people signing up?

To: DenverTechie who wrote (1610)	7/20/1998 9:25:00 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12823

Denver, Just as a point of clarification, you say: >So the convoluted answer is that the ADSL "high speed data" service is delivered via a packet switched network like you would expect.< Maybe that was 'too' convoluted. I think what you meant to state was that the high speed packet data service is delivered over ADSL, and not the other way around. Basic xDSL protocols are physical layer (Layer One), and the cells and packets that make up the data services (Layers Two and Three, respectively) ride atop the DSL layer. Otherwise, On with the Lecture, Teach! You're doing just fine! Regards, Frank C.

To: DenverTechie who wrote (1610)	7/21/1998 12:39:00 AM
From: Dan S.	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 12823

Even though ADSL can guarantee 1.5 Mbps into one's home, I fail to believe this is dedicated throughput. This would mean they would have to have 1.5 Mbps (or close to it if they have good cacheing) for each customer. Which means they would have to charge a whole heck of a lot more money than what they are charging for this type of bandwidth. Our wireless service has a guaranteed bandwidth AT ANY GIVEN TIME of 1.5 Mbps but it is definitely a shared bandwidth. Can you expand on this.... thanks. BTW: Our system is wireless MMDS.