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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (3785)	5/19/1999 8:40:00 AM
From: Kenneth E. De Paul	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12823

Excellent post. Do you know of cable loop traffic studies which can substantiate your point of view? I am of equal mind, but haven't read of anything like what I am asking.

To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (3785)	5/19/1999 1:33:00 PM
From: WTC	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12823

Frank, you offered a compelling, multi-point argument for the difficulty of cable reaching their data services nirvana where <cable modems [are] interoperable, low-cost and sold at retail like telephone modems and data network interface cards."> I second the motion, based on a separate fact of life. Change is the enemy of commoditization, and there is still plenty of change on the horizon for cable modems. DOCSIS 1.2 was announced before DOCSIS 1.0 was available. There are useful advances being made in the evolution of the "standards", and backwards compatibility may not really be enough -- the service provider and the customer will both want to exploit the new features of the latest and greatest. Issues like RF signal performance, security, protocol formats, and packet forwarding performance will get attention in the DOCSIS process, and it is hard to see where Circuit City or CompUSA can figure in deployments of such customer premises equipment. I personally look at such issues with a 2-4 year time horizon in mind. In the long run, everything works the way we dreamed (planned?)it would, but by then, I'm retired, so I don't care anymore.