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To: WTC who wrote (3651)	5/11/1999 4:45:00 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12823

Tim, Thread, the following is an interesting excerpt which deals with last mile issues. It's from an article on AT&T's convergence plans to IP and their overall cable delivery agenda. All bolding is mine. I lifted it from the VoIP thread, with thanks going to Stitch. Enjoy, Frank Coluccio ==============From: "AT&T's New Networked World" Challenge: Building quality convergence for its customers. sjmercury.com --- Q How can you handle the bandwidth demand? Right now, people who are on @Home complain about slowdowns in the afternoon and stuff like that. If each of them is sending a 300k stream, you're dead. Your cable isn't big enough. A NAGEL: We recognize that that's a problem. But remember, this is sort of first-generation data stuff. We're going to have to get through a couple of years probably of figuring out how to solve these various problems. IANNA: There are logical things you can do to evolve the architecture to take into account the things that will occur. You start to see traffic patterns evolve that you can begin to engineer for and take into account in advance. NAGEL: We've been working on a second-generation system for the last five years in the labs. We're going to be rolling that out and doing a trial of that in a fairly major city next year. Which gets fiber much farther out to the customer. Q Fiber to the neighborhood, fiber to the curb, fiber to the what? A NAGEL: Keep going. Q Fiber to the home? A NAGEL: Eventually. This is a second-generation architecture that begins to move the fiber farther and farther out. You don't do it until you need it, but fiber to the neighborhood is sort of a first step. Q What's the relationship between customer demand and network capacity going to be? Is it going to be as tumultuous over the next five years as I'm imagining? A IANNA: You'd always love to be able to say, ''I had the exact technology ready to deploy'' when that market demand comes there. I think we saw an example with Digital ne Rate where I'm seeing growth rates on the wireless network they never saw before. You did one relatively simple marketing thing, the product didn't change a lot. Traffic on the network is going to double this year. My biggest problem right now is keeping up with demand. So are we going to be smarter the next time we do something like that? I hope so. Q That is also Pac Bell's biggest problem now in keeping up with demand for its DSL. It seems to be an @Home problem. Is that going to be lots of companies' problem for a long period of time, while networks adjust to demand? A NAGEL: It is going to be a time of rapid change in the next couple of years. ===================end last mile excerpt The remainder of the article is omitted. Go to the above url for entire article. It almost makes me wanna go back and work for Mom again. Nah...