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To: Bill who wrote (4919)	11/20/1998 8:59:00 PM
From: Scrapps	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9236

Bill I thank you for your comments, they help me get a better understanding of the big picture. Your remarks... "This type of configuration could be the eventual roll out of DSL (10-20 yrs from now) everywhere, IMO." I'll take as tongue in cheek...lord only knows what technology we'll be using then; wireless would be my guess. Maybe we'll be using satellites that get launched from the sea going platform they were testing in the bay here this month. The company is called Sea Launch, it's an international company, which is a joint partnership of Boeing, RSC Energia of Moscow, kvaerner Maritime of Norway and Yuzhnoye of Ukraine. First launch is scheduled for March 1999 to place a PanAmSat communications satellite in orbit. It'll be the first ever for a floating commercial launch pad. They have contracts for 18 launches from the Pacific Ocean near the equator using Zenit rockets built in the Ukraine. The self propelled launch pad is called Odyssey and the support ship is the Sea Launch Commander. My source: The Monterey County Herald - credit- staff writer Calvin Demmon. So...I'd expect DSL to be pretty darned common place way before those 10-20 years you suggest. Did you mean Light years? <g> Don't need no stinking NASA government shuttle, Scrapps PS We don't need no stinking government monopolies for DSL either. <g>

To: Bill who wrote (4919)	11/20/1998 10:14:00 PM
From: froland	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 9236

Bill Vaughn: I was just talking to an old friend who is a technical planner at Nortel. For what it's worth, My friend said NT will continue with its proprietary ADSL until final ratification of G.Lite by ITU in spring 99. Once that happens, NT will offer both G.Lite and their existing proprietary ADSL. Their proprietary ADSL is only 1Meg downstream compared with G.Lites 1.5Meg downstream. I believe G.Lites upstream is a good bit higher than NTs proprietary ADSL but can't remember the exact figure. NTs proprietary ADSL has a loop length which is about 2500 feet longer than G.Lites loop length. As for the Siemens CO, the EWSD has an insignificant presence in the US. However, the EWSD has a HUGE presence in Germany and other nations. Millions of installed lines. Siemens has been and to my understanding still is, big on ITU conformance. Now, If those AWRE licensed chips go into all EWSDs, we will do very, very well. If you or anybody else can help out on confirming this, it would be great. Siemens also has a rural CO known as the DCO which they inherited from Stromberg-Carlson. The DCO has a larger presence in the US than the EWSD. I'm told meetings are underway to determine what the DCOs ADSL offering will be. A different friend tells me a decision hasn't been made on what flavor ADSL will be offered on the DCO. Again, Siemens is big on ITU conformance which bodes very well for G.Lite on the DCO. However, the longer loop lengths of a rural CO could pose a problem. froland.