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To: lml who wrote (2344)	11/19/1998 4:54:00 PM
From: Kenneth E. Phillipps	Respond to of 12823

Article in Internet Week re UUNet & DSL Services internetwk.com Thursday, November 19, 1998, 11:55 a.m. ET. Uunet To Offer DSL Services By KATE GERWIG Leaving the heritage of slow and spotty ISDN deployment in the dust, Uunet Technologies yesterday announced DSL services that are coast-to-coast in scope. The ISP hopes to sell small business customers DSL services for less than fractional T1 services. For corporate users, DSL offers--unlike ISDN--a way to have "always-on" Internet access in small or remote offices, with prices lower than T1s or fractional T1 services. MCI WorldCom vice chairman John Sidgmore announced the new services in a keynote speech at the Comdex trade show in Las Vegas. Uunet's big advantage in rolling out national DSL at competitive prices comes from the MCI WorldCom merger. The company owns local access facilities in many major metropolitan areas gained from its MCI, MFS and Brooks Fiber Systems acquisitions. Uunet will use MCI WorldCom facilities to collocate DSL equipment wherever possible, and will collocate and buy local loops from local telephone companies and CLECs wherever needed, said Uunet vice president of marketing Alan Taffel. "They are trying to introduce a national service using all means possible. It's great that someone is finally trying to pull it all together," said TeleChoice's DSL analyst, Claudia Bacco. Only GTE's plan to offer DSL services from 300 central offices in 11 states come close, she said. The small business service is available from Uunet in select markets immediately, and America Online and EarthLink will begin consumer DSL trials by the end of the year. Both ISPs resell access to Uunet's backbone. MCI WorldCom's Internet unit has 200 DSL POPs deployed now and promises 400 by the end of this year, 600 by March 1999 and 1,000 by year-end 1999. The service is much more ambitious in scale than DSL offerings from other local telephone companies and ISPs. The corporate UuLink DSL service will supply customers with a DSL access circuit, Internet connectivity, domain name services and e-mail accounts. Since corporate users tend to send and receive large amounts of data, the service will be symmetrical with speeds ranging from 128 to 768 Kbps. Prices begin at $500 a month and include DSL circuits. The price is about one-fourth of an equivalent T1, Taffel said. The small business service is designed for use in a local area network, and a DSL router will be placed on the customer's premises. Where MCI WorldCom owns the local facilities, the company will use Copper Mountain hardware, according to Uunet director of product marketing Ralph Munsford. The consumer or home office trials will use asymmetrical DSL with per-user speeds ranging from 64 to 384 Kbps upstream and 384 to 768 Kbps downstream, depending on the region and distance from the central office. Although Uunet's online service resellers like AOL will determine the price of services, the target range is $40 to $60 per month, Taffel said.

To: lml who wrote (2344)	11/19/1998 5:25:00 PM
From: Kenneth E. Phillipps	Respond to of 12823

Dell Computer Joins US West and Cisco to market computers with ASDL modems. The article is at: bloomberg.com I notice the computer is a 333 MHz Celeron, with 15 inch monitor & 8MB video card priced at $1399. I wonder if this is the computer to pair with high speed internet access. I hope the purchasers have better luck than me with Dell's claimed 24-hour toll free hardware phone support. I could never get through their phone system to real live person. KEn

To: lml who wrote (2344)	11/19/1998 6:43:00 PM
From: DenverTechie	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12823

NG in NGDLC stands for "Next Generation" as in "Star Trek: The Next Generation". Likelihood that PacBell will add special equipment to reach you 7.5 miles from the serving CO is pretty remote, if you'll pardon the pun. You are probably served by an existing old DLC that is not depreciated yet and the incremental revenue they would gain from ADSL service to your area would not offset the cost to put in a new DLC for your neighborhood for many, many years. Unless there is high demand for other services that could be used to justify an NGDLC that can't be provided by an old one. Another thing to keep in mind. Just because the switching equipment is from NORTEL doesn't necessarily mean the DLC is from NORTEL. Southwestern Bell used to mix and match DLC and switch equipment all the time based on who had the best DLC mix of features and price. Even if the DLC was from NORTEL, then PacBell would have to specify NetSpeed ADSL modems and only NetSpeed. No other ADSL would work with the NORTEL DLC. A new DLC runs $15 - $ 20K but final cost is much more since installation, wiring, provisioning, power, etc. adds typically 30% to 50% more to the final price. Total installed price would be somewhere in the $25 - $30K range or more for one of these puppies.