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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (3005)	3/4/1999 7:06:00 AM
From: MikeM54321	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12823

"This approach demands extremely short drop lines (last ~1000-1500 feet of delivery) from the remote digital field terminal." Frank, What is a "digital field terminal?" Is it the same a the CO? I noticed there are COs located throughout this area. They are very easy to identify because they are large brick structures with no windows and GTE written all over them. Plus there are these other, "things" (don't you love my terminology). They are short pieces of wooden telephone poles about 5 feet high, with shiny metal canisters, about 18" high with a diameter of about 12", mounted around the short telephone pole. Slapped all over these canisters are "HDSL" (and I believe ADSL) stickers. Needless to say quite a few wires go in and out of the lower end of these canisters that are water-tight sealed with V-band clamps. I notice these more dispersed along major roads surrounding different areas. Thanks, MikeM(From Florida)

To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (3005)	3/4/1999 8:09:00 AM
From: Peter Ecclesine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12823

Hi Frank, I think that GTE tested VDSL rates(51Mbps down, 1Mbps up) at 3500 feet, and 27Mbps symmetric at 4500 feet in trials last summer. The VDSL range is mostly interference limited, not attenuation limited. petere

To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (3005)	3/4/1999 1:47:00 PM
From: MikeM54321	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 12823

Re: xDSL and DSLAMs "Maybe the installer was mistaken about the 1Mb/s rate. VDSL, I believe, begins at 12 Mb/s, working upwards to 52 Mb/s at the high end." Frank, Sorry. I didn't word it right. I meant to say they had the little incoming telephone wire hooked up to a, "?? box," inside the house (maybe outside?). The back of it had plugs for TV video, a telephone, AND a 1 megabit Internet connection. The video may very well have taken up a huge chunk of bandwidth in itself. Remember, this GTE tech was a bakery manager at Publix (our big grocery store in FL) two years ago so I don't know if I got all the facts right. I'm finding all this xDSL conversation pretty fascinating. It's hard to image those tiny little wires being able to supply so much bandwidth. Let me ask you another question about those DSLAM's now. If I'm not mistaken they will become a very hot product once xDSL takes off. I always pictured them going into the CO only, but it appears they may go in the "field terminals," too. Who are the big players in DSLAMs? All I recall is that Ascend is one key player. And do you need one DSLAM for one user? If so, where are they going to put them all? Thanks, MikeM(From Florida)