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To: ERM who wrote (3020)	10/30/1998 12:02:00 PM
From: ahhaha	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29970

More to it than that. High speed transfer isn't high speed enough. You have to move the data closer to the user. The network architecture used to accomplish this is substantially different from telephone CO caching servers networks. @Home puts its caching servers at the cable headend. Thus replication takes place at tree nodes vs at segment points in a line with telephone networks. You couldn't handle the huge load using say, a DSL modem on linear telephone networks. You need n-ary tree architecture. This differentiates cable delivery and telephone delivery. The components of the @Home model are proprietary both in replication methodology and software control, management. @Home has recently upgraded to Arepa's package and is in the process of tweaking it. Certain portions of @Home's network are patented and don't exist anywhere else including Road Runner. Road Runner's architecture must be similar, but I don't know the details. They don't make them very public. Although you haven't been impressed with my arguments, there is quite a lot to them. I have failed to do a good job in making the case. I'm creating this ad hoc and extemporaneously. You can see that ATT and TCI are gradually saying the same things I'm concocting. There are much stronger formal legal arguments available that can be impressed. Right now it isn't necessary nor wise to get tough or show your hole cards. T and TCI are playing it correctly. Mum's the word. The FCC can't make rulings because it suits their fancy. They can make trouble, but they can't change manifest destiny. Government can legislate morality, but that doesn't mean anyone will follow government's morals. Government can pass statutes like the 55mph speed limit, but that doesn't mean anyone will obey them. The government through the FCC, DOJ, FCA, and other branches is out of control. There are so many law suits it is hard to believe that any of the departments can handle the case load. They can't. The problem is the will of the people. The people put a democrat regime in power which has appointed the eager beaver types whose raison d'etre is to protect the people from the capitalist pigs. The regime itself doesn't like what they're doing, but they have to go along or else face the poll decisions of the ugly mob. The outcome of this chaos is the exact opposite of its designer's intention. They create an environment of less competition and more monopolistic control. Restraint of trade is what they want. It continues the holy war against wealth.