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To: drmorgan who wrote (1613)	7/20/1998 10:05:00 PM
From: Neal Hopper	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12823

techie this may help ADSL System Design westell.com Derek <<What can be done to offer (the people with $$) DSL to the areas that will have good percentages of people signing up? >> From what I understand of US West's DSL rollout. They need a Digital Loop Carrier solution. Most of the newer neighborhood are served by DLCs. I would expect they will have that solution by the end of the year. BTW they has wired 283 +- Central Offices this year..

To: drmorgan who wrote (1613)	7/21/1998 11:46:00 AM
From: DenverTechie	Respond to of 12823

DM -- You have hit on one of the fundamental problems with current ADSL/RADSL telephone company architectures that is somewhat perplexing. The customers that can pay for the service are in many cases located in suburbs served off Digital Loop Carriers (DLCs) that are not RADSL compatible and so can't pass the signal. These are expensive pieces of gear to replace, so the phone company doesn't just go out and change them out. This dilemma is why there have been many joint ventures and alliances formed in the ADSL world with DLC suppliers. Almost every day, either an xDSL or DSL supplier announces a deal that they are compatible with the other's equipment. Over a period of time, the equipment in any given DLC will be able to work with a given set of ADSL modems. We are not anywhere near that now. Some new DLCs will come equipped from the get go with circuit packs that can pass the xDSL signal. That will effectively expand the available serving area for these services. Eventually, the old DLCs will be upgraded and be made backward compatible with the xDSL service. But there are many thousands of DLCs out there that need to be retrofitted before the service can be offered on a ubiquitous basis.

To: drmorgan who wrote (1613)	7/26/1998 8:37:00 PM
From: Scott C. Lemon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12823

Hello Derek, A couple of quick comments on your issues ... 1. The DSL performance and reliability has been bad so far by US West. About 50% of the people I know who have tried to get it couldn't. 2. The problems in Sandy (the affluent area) are related to the newer design and installation. I was told by a US West tech that Sandy has more "modern" equipment installed which is digital out to the curbs in neighborhoods. This means that the copper is the last several hundred feet to homes, but only a dozen or so homes connect to each curbside box. This means they can't get the port density that they need to make DSL cost effective in these locations. (Recently the same tech indicated that a fix has been designed, but it will take time to roll out.) 3. Call TCI! If you visit tci.net and go to the link to "Contact TCI" you can call their 888 phone number (or e-mail) and get on the list. TCI has said that if enough people request service in the Salt Lake City area they might have cable modems working by the end of the year. ;-) Scott C. Lemon