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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (3360)	4/11/1999 7:33:00 PM
From: Ahda	Respond to of 12823

I am not sure if this is an appropriate place ot drop this off but in my mind this is a very good move. sunday-times.co.uk April 11 1999 BUSINESS NEWS BT Cellnet to link home and mobile phones David Parsley BT CELLNET, the mobile telephony group, is to launch the first combined domestic and mobile-phone service. The new marketing initiative will be its first since BT Cellnet, which is 60% owned by British Telecommunications, changed its name from Cellnet last week. It is an effort to cash in on the craze for mobile phones by providing families with just one telephone number. BT Cellnet Onephone will give customers a "flexinumber", which means users can be contacted on their home number wherever they happen to be. The package will include a cordless digital phone for the home and a mobile handset. Both use the latest technology to ensure that when the mobile phone is in the home it will let the home handset take the call. As soon as the user leaves home the mobile will switch on. If, however, the mobile is turned off the caller will be transferred to the home phone. If neither is answered a message can be left on an answering machine. The cost of the service has yet to be finalised but mobile calls are expected to be priced at similar rates to current services. Calls from the home handsets will be charged at normal BT rates. To begin with the service will be aimed at what BT Cellnet terms "premium customers", but it is expected the service will become cheaper as demand grows. There will be two forms of Onephone available - one for homes and one for businesses. John O'Boyle, who is heading Onephone, believes the product will be popular with homeworkers who can use it for business calls while retaining their private line on the home handset. O'Boyle said: "It's the home phone that is also a mobile. As soon as you leave the range of the home handset the mobile will automatically switch over to taking the calls. There really is no excuse to miss an important call again. "While we expect the Onephone will initially be popular with homeworkers and businesses we are already working on bringing it to the mass market. No doubt many people keyed into technology will want the service anyway but we expect most initial customers will use the service for work." The move also represents BT Cellnet's latest effort to catch Vodafone, the market leader in mobile phones. Last year Vodafone had almost 1m more subscribers than BT Cellnet. Now BT Cellnet is just 400,000 behind with 3.6m using its service compared with Vodafone's 4m.

To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (3360)	4/12/1999 10:37:00 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12823

To all network managers, architects and engineers in the audience. You will enjoy this one. It's taken from a prominent Internet List that supports ISP administrators in their quest to maintain and optimize their facilities, peering relationships, and routes. You've heard of network health tools? Utilization forecasting? Running benchmark tests? Here's how one ISP administrator, with the help of an "ISP consultant," goes about determining if a given Internet exchange, and its associated routes, are suitable for his needs: ---------- On Mon, 12 Apr 1999, an ISP adminstrator wrote: "I'm debating whether to buy a crossconnect to CIX's 7513 and use it for UUNet traffic. I tried pushing 701 through the shared FDDI and it crawled, but that could have been the FDDI." The ISP consultant responded with: "Well I have a @Home connection right now in PA and everything going to 701 is via CIX. Some days it is ok, but the connection sucks most days." The ISP Admin: "Does anybody have any good experience with routing through CIX? I noticed one of my transit providers is using it for UUNet. Does anybody know UUNet's connection to the router and how saturated it already is?" The Consultant: "I did a few years ago to get to sprint, but to answer your question, yes, UUNets connection is saturated." [regards] ----------- Well, so much for the "engineering" part of the job.... anyone know how to spell determinism? How about a wet finger held high in the air?