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To: lml who wrote (3476)	4/27/1999 10:47:00 PM
From: John Stichnoth	Respond to of 12823

I like your points. Very persuasive.

To: lml who wrote (3476)	4/28/1999 12:42:00 AM
From: semi_infinite	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12823

lml, The argument in favor of g.lite is reasonable if the bottleneck is the backbone itself as stated below in a g.lite white paper. (here is the link orckit.com The chipsets coming out, like Lucent and Fujitzu/Orckit, support both g.lite and full adsl. So, it seems that g.lite is a reasonable incremental step towards higher speeds and Internet-2. IMHO <Executive Summary Full ADSL, up to 8.2 Mbps downstream and 768 Kbps upstream, originally intended for video applications is now targeted for bringing high-speed Internet access to residential and small business users. For this new market, access speeds at 10% of full ADSL capabilities are quite adequate for surfing today's Internet. Key to this is the inherent constraint of the Internet backbone, which cannot support throughputs above 300 to 400 Kbps. Although backbones are built on super high-speed fiber optic networks, throughput is based on many other elements such as: Internet traffic conditions, routers, servers, and PCs. Having a sports car that can drive at 150 mph does not mean you can drive from New York to Boston averaging 150 mph. In reality, our sports car will do little better than an average family car. >

To: lml who wrote (3476)	4/28/1999 10:57:00 AM
From: Doughboy	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 12823

lml, Can you try to educate me a bit here? What does DMT stand for? What CPE is involved with DSL? Let's take a practical example: if I sign up with Concentric for a DSL, will they roll their truck to my office or do they just go to the CO? What equipment has to be installed at my premises? Thanks alot to you and to everyone on the thread. Doughboy.

To: lml who wrote (3476)	4/29/1999 9:37:00 PM
From: Scott Moody	Respond to of 12823

lml, >>My thinking on this front is that IF the likes of SBC/PacBell are willing to go gang-busters in deploying DMT-DSL to the greatest extent possible, which requires a truck roll, why would it switch to splitterless g.lite in the middle of the ball game? The differential investment has already been made -- & deployed. << My thinking exactly. With DMT, and I live 6 miles out in the boonies and have a CO about 1.5 miles from my house, and believe it or not had fiber layed through my front yard about 4 years ago, why go with DSL Lite. I would much rather have a robust DMT solution to start with. I think that the regional Bells are slowing things down because they fear the competition. SBC, my carrier, is always screwing things up. About a month ago we had a local outage on the land lines. I used my cell phone, also SBC, to report the outage. Took 30 minutes on hold and various operators, to report this. I asked for a credit and was told there was no such thing. Naturally I went ballistic and finally got the issue resolved, all over the cell phone. In addition I pay SBC a buck a month as insurance to take care of my in house phone systems. When something goes haywire, it seems to me the guys they send out have no clue. Generally I can fix it faster myself. Scott Moody not an admirer of SBC.