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To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (1913)	8/17/1998 5:36:00 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12823

Ken, That's really challenging, simply to contemplate such a machine. Then again, when I was a kid, I had a hard time envisioning what was taking place in milliseconds, then micro, then nano, then... until someone advised that I simply trap a trace on a scope and look at it as a still photo with no moving parts. It was easy after that. (cough!) The article reminded me of what one of the LVLT engineers stated in another article... Message 5514685 ------------------------ "Level 3's Waters says that the carrier uses no voice compression. 'We're in the middle of a development plan to build a substantial fiber optic channel. Compressing 56K voice channels is not at all the end game we're shooting for,' he says." "Ironically, the economics driving carriers in the IP world appear to work in reverse for the OSS portion of the network, he says. As carriers gain the operating efficiencies from IP, OSS becomes more important as a differentiation and more expensive in terms of percentage of capital budgets." ------------------- Very telling. It's becoming clear, on an intellectual level, anyway, that the bandwidth model and its associate economics are gradually changing. I would expect that the rate of these changes will accelerate in short order, where dedicated access and long haul is concerned -- for those who can meet the threshold affordability criteria. I see it as being possible in certain sectors that the things we have been striving to achieve in the way of economizing on resources such as bandwidth, may themselves be the impediments to better economies as time goes on. Stuck in the legacy mold, so to speak, for its own sake. As Waters implies above, if the bandwidth window is wide enough, why bother spending money on high-ratio compression technologies. Interesting, and all happening very quickly in front of our eyes, as we speak. Best Regards, and thanks for that piece of data, Frank C.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (1913)	8/19/1998 8:03:00 AM
From: MikeM54321	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12823

News off the web: "AOL chose Cisco to supply high-volume network equipment, specifically Cisco 12000 Series gigabit switch routers, to strengthen the backbone connecting AOL subscribers to the Internet." Thread, I believe Ascend used to (or maybe still does) supply a lot of equipment to AOL. This news surprised me. Also, what is a "gigabit switch router?" Is it a router or a switch? And what's about the "gigabit" part? I usually associate gigabit with gigabit ethernet(GE). I'm fairly certain AOL's backbone has nothing to do with GE. Sounds like a lot of marketing buzzwords were chosen. Any explanations appreciated. Thanks, MikeM(From Florida) PS Ken, Notice the term "switch router." It's confusing.