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To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (3537)	5/3/1999 11:10:00 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Respond to of 12823

Yes, Ken... but it's getting to be more than a trend, since it's already upon us in large measure. ATT just announced they will have DSL in place in 1,200 POPS by the end of the year. There are now a half dozen or more national DSL providers, in addition to FON's ION offering, MCI's OnNet, and T's other metro INC offerings. Every new wave fiber baron carrier is teaming up with them, and almost every mom and pop ISP has been canvassed to partake in a partnering scheme with them. CDO's heritage is in leasing of Big Blue Iron. They were once (if not still) the largest provider of IBM Main Frames to businesses. Their second calling is Disaster Recovery services. More recently (on the eternal time line, anyway) they have been into business continuity where LANs are involved, since the late Eighties. They have an extensive backbone network, like a sizable 'net B-B provider's, I'd say, that they can probably leverage to the hilt with this new service of theirs. The one thing they lacked, like most providers up until now, was affordable high[er] speed lines than those which were available by dialup or ISDN. DSL does open several doors in this respect. Most folks think of DSL as a couch potato's toy, but it has many applications for the small business and home office, some of which follow. I think that there are a number of office automation services that would be very well suited by the use of DSL, like daily backups; software distribution and upgrades; re-homing of clients and servers; database replication services.... the list is really quite extensive. I mentioned these few in the preceding sentence, because CDO is already into them, and they would be logical extensions to their otherwise tape-based or dialup services.