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To: John Stichnoth who wrote (3116)	3/15/1999 9:55:00 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Respond to of 12823

You're very welcome, John. >is old-fashioned T1 still viable, in special situations such as office buildings, or perhaps apartment buildings? Would T1 have any advantage over the alternatives? < Yes, it's actually the preferred medium in most business buildings, and some apartment buildings as well. In business buildings wireline T1s, either copper based, or fiber based have been used for the most part. FBBW works on the same principle, though, if it's point to point. Otherwise, P-MP has its advantages too, but this begins to address a different set of dynamics. A popular scheme which is employed by the telco or other SP is to install a T3 (or higher capacity) multiplexer, or mux, on site, and to "pick off" T1s as required. In turn, the T1s are run to the suite or floor where they are required. This kind of on-site fan-out results in a less-expensive and readily-available supply of T1s for some foreseeable time frame. Time to delivery is cut down to days, instead of weeks or months, and the costs for individual T1s are much lower when they are provisioned in this manner. Yes, T1s are still extremely viable. Not only T1, but higher denominations of the same hierarchy, such as T3 (45 Mb/s), OC3 (155 Mb/s) and higher. When economies of scale start to kick in, where the larger enterprises are concerned, the last thing they want to discuss is onesy twosy DSLs for individual users. Apartment buildings would actually be better served, IMO, by Cable Modem if a cable provider is already on prem. But T1s (sometime multiple T's) to an apartment building can serve as the collection pipe for an on-prem DSL access multiplexer (DSLAM), as well. I'm discussing just such a plan with an ISP friend of mine right now, although a T3 is beginning to look like the best fit there, since he wants to now serve an entire campus-like development. I guess the thing to walk away with, after you read this message, is that there are no indications that T1s are losing favor in the corporate world right now. Where branch banking systems and branch offices of insurance companies and retailers were once satisfied with 56 kb/s lines for their point of sale operations, they are now upgrading, almost without exception, to T1 and beyond, as they are now beginning to integrate all of the telecoms requirements onto a signle pipe. Sometimes multiple T1 pipes in aggregate, or a full T3 pipe. The only problem with T1s, T2s (6.3 Mb/s) and T3s is that they are so damned (and I would argue, artificially, at this point) expensive for the individual to lease, on a "unit one" basis. Prohibitive, in fact, for most. Best Regards, Frank_C.