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To: MARK C. who wrote (20776)	8/8/1998 7:13:00 PM
From: sandstuff	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50264

EVERYONE here's my reason why DGIV released news at midnight on Friday... To catch the market makers off guard...hehehe What's yours?

To: MARK C. who wrote (20776)	8/8/1998 7:47:00 PM
From: MARK C.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50264

Thought this was a very interesting article::::: Cable Industry Works to Transform DOCSIS From Low-Cost Web Surfing Solution to Full-Service Packet Telecom Platform The idea of offering competitive residential telephone services has captivated cable operators for years. Although reliable telephony equipment for hybrid fiber-coaxial (HFC) networks is commercially available, significant economic and operational barriers have discouraged most MSOs from widely deploying it. Rather than offering telephone services, cable operators have responded to growing market demand for high-speed Internet connections by rolling out cable modems. The effort has been largely successful. By September 1998 CABLE DATACOM NEWS publisher Kinetic Strategies Inc. estimates North American MSOs will serve 300,000 cable modem subscribers, outpacing telcos in the race to offer broadband Internet access. Now, with Internet Protocol (IP) networks emerging as viable platforms for the delivery of voice traffic, MSOs hope to use their high-speed data networks to support packet telephone services instead of deploying standalone HFC telephony equipment. 'Conventional cable telephony gear works well. The disadvantages are its high cost and that it requires you to build yet another logical network over your cable infrastructure,' said Alexander Brock, vice president of business development for Rogers Communications Inc., the parent company of Canada's largest MSO. Deploying separate telephony and high-speed data architectures creates clear capital, operational and spectrum inefficiencies, since a cable operator must purchase two hardware platforms, allocate a pair of upstream and downstream channels for each service, integrate two operations support systems, and assign staff to manage each service offering. 'The whole point of IP telephony from our perspective is that it's the opportunity to create one platform to offer multiple services, both voice and data, and enhancements for cable TV services,' said Brock. 'It provides an opportunity to leverage a single infrastructure for multiple means.' MSOs are expecting their integrated IP networks to operate on a cost structure that is far lower than existing circuit-switched alternatives, enabling aggressive service discounting without sacrificing margins. Besides undercutting competitors, MSOs hope the flexibility of IP networks will allow them to deliver a host of unique value-added features, such as integrated voice mail and e-mail messaging and the real-time provisioning of additional phone lines without rewiring a home. However, to make this vision a reality, cable operators must overcome a number of hurdles. The first-generation Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification (DOCSIS) cable modem standard was not specifically designed to support IP telephony and must be enhanced. Cable packet telephony operations support systems must be developed to handle customer provisioning, management and billing. And MSOs must develop interconnection standards for their IP backbone networks to effectively share packet telephony traffic. In September 1997 Cable Television Laboratories Inc. initiated a project on behalf of its North American MSO members called PacketCable to address these issues. Most leading networking and telecommunications vendors are participating in the cable IP telephony initiative.