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To: FR1 who wrote (2596)	7/30/1998 3:20:00 AM
From: ahhaha	Respond to of 29970

I've known about CPQ's embedded strategy, but when I read your great post I had this vision that CPQ has made an important and expensive mistake in that the DSL machines are quickly obsolescent and extremely problematic. You can't just plug and play a DSL modem machine. It is hard to tweak it to go just right. This is one of the recurring field trial problems experienced by the RBOCs. There also is the limitation of distance to CO. CPQ's box is dead outside 4 miles. You can't sell a machine like that. It's too feed specific and difficult to tune. I guess you can sell a load of them to fool corporation with its own VPN, but that is probably already on T-1 and would make no sense to pull it out for the unreliability of slow upstream of DSL. The bone is loaded now. How does CPQ expect the local loop to carry mission critical data on an overloaded copper pipe? Their success is their failure. I guess a few million machines is only worth several million dollars given they're made in Bangladesh, so maybe CPQ can swallow it. I wonder if this is another elephant banging into itself?