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Microcap & Penny Stocks : DCI Telecommunications - DCTC Today -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Maika who wrote (15887)	4/29/1999 8:48:00 PM
From: Bill France	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 19331

Doing a little DD and came up with this gem..... Maybe Joe M. ought to buy CSCO......at least they know the handwriting on the wall. Does this technology bode well for DCTC telco? Bill "Your correspondent saw a Keynote given at Spring Internet World by John Chambers, CEO of Cisco, and felt that a prototype device he demonstrated was so significant that I should write about it for WWW. The device looked like a telephone but instead of phone inputs on the back it had two Ethernet ports. You use one to plug into the network (and the other lets you plug in the phone without the taking a port from a hub since the phone acts as mini-hub). As soon as the phone plugs in, it makes a DCHP call to get an IP address (on networks with dynamically assigned IP addresses, the addresses are given out by a DCHP server using the DCHP protocol). Once it has the IP address, the phone registers itself with the phone server on the Internet and, based on the phone's MAC address, the server knows what it's phone number is and can pass calls through to it. You move the phone from office to office or from office to home and the number moves with it! Related to this is what Cisco has been saying for several years - the cost of voice over the net will go to zero. Just as email is "free" - that is built into network access costs and there is no per message fee, phone will eventually also be free. Cisco thinks that will come soon and, if the only barriers were technological, I'd agree. But the Telcos are past masters at using the regulatory mechanisms to delay threatening technology, so it may not be as quick as technology allows. Still, the market forces are so great here that I suspect the regulatory delays won't be that lengthy. If I were a Telco CEO, I wouldn't sleep very well. And I'd tell my workforce that the future of the company, at least in the residential market, depended totally on how many DSL home users we could sign up."