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To: DenverTechie who wrote (3792)	5/19/1999 1:56:00 PM
From: Kenneth E. De Paul	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12823

Thanks. I would believe what you say, however, as AT&T is moving into voice over cable, the question to try to figure out is the QOS issue too. Traffic mix is always a difficult model to predict, and I was hoping to see how far along the cable testing was.

To: DenverTechie who wrote (3792)	5/20/1999 8:13:00 AM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Respond to of 12823

Thanks, Denver. I have some vivid recollections of the Orlando trials, and its eventual outcome. From a distance, of course. When that trial reached its eventual verdict, I inferred some ominous things at the time, viewing it as a harbinger of things to come in this great expanse we call cable. But the industry was about to cross a chasm at the time that it had no idea, or, at best, a very vague notion about that which it would eventually reach. I recently posted some recall on this matter on the SilkRoad thread that I think some might appreciate and want to comment on here, with regard to the early goings on in this field. See below. Regards, Frank Coluccio ============= From: Message 9556586 [Re: Telestrategies Inc.'s Industry Conferences] The first one I ever went to was in '89, or '90, I believe. Northern Telecom, at the time, was unveiling their Fiber World platform at a show similar to this one devoted to Fiber Optics and Broadband. SONET was just being unveiled too, at the time (was it a pre-ratification glimpse at the time?), replacing the top end boxes of the time which were rated at 1.8 Gb/s based on asynchronous T3/T4 aggregations. Fiber World was the flagship model that NT was promoting, the one that showed the future of cable TV networking consisting of shop-at-home conveniences, telemedicine, video conferencing, distance learning, with mock ups of shopping carts and various other cliche objects being manipulated in an animated way under the bogus control of remote control paddles. In effect, it predicted all of the things that Cable Modems are not only not being used for today, but ... ...which are actually against the current MSO's use policies to do so. So much for Fiber World and the cable TV visionaries of the Late Eighties and Early Nineties. These services were grandstanded then by the MSOs, and their vendors, like NT, as futures, favoring them over something else they hadn't even seriously considered to mention at the time, that being, the Internet.