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To: RTev who wrote (5682)	2/24/1999 12:51:00 PM
From: RocketMan	Respond to of 41369

My understanding is that most of the AOLnet infrastructure transitioned from Tymnet to MCI/WorldCom, and WorldCom pretty much runs their backbone through UUNET, which is a very robust network. You raised some interesting questions with regard to how distributed their network is. I have to think that with Andressen coming over as their tech guy, their architecture will see many improvements. I think architectural issues will throttle broadand implementation for many years to come. Even ATHM is finding bottlenecks with their current customer base of under half a million. There have been tech-level discussions of these issues over on the ATHM and Last Mile threads by comm experts (which I am not :-)