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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (3935)	5/31/1999 1:35:00 AM
From: Daniel G. DeBusschere	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12823

Frank - regarding your comment: (2) Cable Cos and their associated ISPs, however, may not permit these forms of SOHO and other telecommuting applications, for reasons having to do with fair allocations of available bandwidth, and ********************** Right now, a new Win98 user of Cable internet service can click on Software upgrade and download 25Mbytes of Internet Explorer 5 (in about 5 minutes in my case) anytime they want to. This is perfectly allowed fair use. So what's the difference to downloading a Word97 doc file that averages 100Kbytes from a corporate file. This file could be on a Internet Information Server that provides file directory support with the node registered like any other web site. Therefore, a corporate portal is like any other web server. Win2000 provides complete L2TP tunneling and encryption. I do not see any prohibitions on this. What they want to discourage and prohibit with fair use policy is someone who sets up a commercial web server that is constantly pumping out high volumes of traffic. That is certainly an unfair use and is very unneighborly to the other users sharing the cable bandwidth. ******************* On another front regarding QOS issues. AT&T has stated that their voice support on cable will be TDM until such time as VOIP infrastructure is in place and is seasoned. It looks to me like AT&T will continue to use their #4ESS tandom switches for a long time and cable will simply replace the requirement for #5ESS (Class 5 local exchange switches used mainly by the RBOCS). THe backbone between the #4ESS will be part of a DWDM bundle that delivers massive bandwidth for practically pennies. There will be no economic compelling reason to take voice off TDM and have to deal with the complex problems of QOS processing and being able to prove that you can meet the terms of your SLA. Now other players who do not have a farm of #4ESS switches may see it differently.

To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (3935)	5/31/1999 11:55:00 AM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 12823

Let's re-ignite the powerline issue. An interesting article concerning the proposed delivery of very high bit rates over electric utility lines, borrowed from the Gilder thread. news.com An excerpt: "This support is predicated on the success of the system's first live tests, which the company says will begin in just a few months... In discussions with financial backers and potential political supporters, the company has said individual consumers could get network connections of 2.5 gigabits per second--an estimate the company calls highly conservative." Like I've stated in earlier posts, I've learned in over thirty some odd years in this sport to never say never, or that it could never be. What say? Regards, Frank Coluccio