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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (3299)	4/2/1999 6:12:00 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12823

According to Red Herring, DSL will be the way the telcos exact their *revenge.* What do you think? ======== "The telcos' revenge" The future of the phone companies is in Internet access. New DSL (digital subscriber line) services show what the future will look like: high-speed Internet access at low cost. This poses a danger to existing ISPs. During the purchase process for new access services, customers are vulnerable to being picked off by the telcos' ISP arms. Furthermore, getting DSL means having someone over to install new gear. Since most ISPs don't have field service divisions like phone companies do, they are at a competitive disadvantage. (A few alternative DSL providers do have complete offerings, but most ISPs do not.) That said, my own experience indicates that the phone companies are not ready to handle the extremely high demand for DSL. Early adopters are helping local telcos work the bugs out of the system, and it's not fun. But Yahoo's purchase of Broadcast.com turns out to be extremely well-timed. The demand for DSL and other high-speed consumer Internet technologies will force a rapid change in Internet content and services. -Rafe Needleman, Editor ==================================

To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (3299)	4/4/1999 5:21:00 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12823

List of Online Telecommunications (and Other Related) Tutorials All, I came across a series of online tutorials located at the International Engineering Consortium site. I think that these should be of great interest to many here. iec.org webproforum.com There are scores of easy-to-read and digest primers prepared and sponsored by many of the industry's heavyweights. You may want to bookmark this url. Enjoy, Frank_C. =============== see the complete list of PDF format tutorials below: [Note: there is a special link at the site which points to "recent" tutorials, as well. ] Tutorial Access Gateways 765k Access Mediation 385k Advanced Voice-Controlled Electronic Assistants 984k Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) 717k Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) Fundamentals 1.0M Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) over Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) 645k Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) Testing 820k Cable Modems 438k Carrier Service Level Agreement (SLAs) 237k Cellular Communications 310k Customer Care 462k Data Warehousing 675k Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) 610k Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) Testing 893k Digital Loop Carriers 688k Echo Cancellation 195k Electronic Commerce 215k Element Management Systems (EMSs) 696k Embedded Telecommunications Management Network (TMN) Solutions 473k Enhanced Services Messaging 248k Extending Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) Services to Remote Digital Loop Carrier (DLC) Locations 202k Fax over Internet Protocol (FoIP) 167k Full-Service Network 1.0M Fundamentals of Telecommunications 252k Global System for Mobile Communication (GSM) 240k H.323 687k Human-Machine Interface (HMI) 441k Hybrid Fiber/Coax (HFC) 619k Hybrid Fiber/Coax (HFC) Telephony 1.2M Intelligent Network (IN) 1.4M Intelligent Network (IN) Service Creation 148k International Intelligent Network (IN) 219k Internet Access 345k Internet Consumer Customer Care 768k Internet Protocol (IP)/Intelligent Network (IN) Integration 720k Internet Protocol (IP) Internetworking Transport 240k Internet Security 339k Internet Telephony 1.1M Local Multipoint Distribution Systems (LMDS) 593k Local Number Portability (LNP) 229k Managed Multiservice Solutions 536k Network Computer-Telephony Integration (CTI) 763k Non-Voice Calls and Line Testing 397k Operations Support Systems 1.7M Optical Networks 527k Personal Communications Services (PCS) 453k Prepaid Services 550k Programmable Switching 737k Signaling System #7 (SS7) 313k Signaling System #7 (SS7) Gateway Solution for Internet Access 233k Smart Antenna Systems 803k Specification and Description Language (SDL) 642k Structured Cabling Systems (SCS) 693k Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH) 465k Synchronous Optical Network (SONET) 1.3M Testing Digital Video 937k Testing in the Unbundled Loop 461k Telecommunications Management Network (TMN) 630k Telephony Billing 285k Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) 176k Tree and Tabular Combined Notation (TTCN) 959k Unified Messaging 215k Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) 243k Voice over Packet 564k Voice Telephony over Asynchronous Transfer Mode (VTOA) 242k Wireless Broadband Modems 909k Wireless Intelligent Network (WIN) 149k Wireless Local Loop (WLL) 647k Wireless Short Message Service (SMS) 164k xDSL Testing 792k For additional information, contact International Engineering Consortium 549 West Randolph Street, Suite 600 Chicago, IL 60661-2208 USA Home Page: iec.org Phone: +1-312-559-3328 Fax: +1-312-559-4111 E-mail: sbernstein@iec.org