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Re: Microsoft offering xDSL access
From: Geoff White <geoffw () precipice v-site net>
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 12:02:14 -0800 (PST)
On Fri, 23 Jan 1998, ^Faust^ wrote:
Geoff White wrote:Well my understanding here in PacBell/SBC land is that the way it will work, (this comes from someone who made a naieve inquiry to another equally naieve saleperson at PacBell/SBC), is that you need to connect to PacBell's ATM backbone in order to order xDSL (the person just wanted to connect from their home to the office), when I heard this I though it was totally absurd but the truth, as they say is far stranger :)Why is this absurd? You think coolocating routers at COs is less absurd? Aggregating DSL traffic in a DSLAM and pumping it out via ATM is the right way to do things.
No it was absurd because my friend just wanted to run two adsl "modems" between his office and home on copper. He was told that to do that he needed to connect to PacBell's ATM backbone, that's whats absurd.
(If I totally misunderstood and you are saying that using *ATM* is absurd, then
see above
don't bother to reply. I'm an atheist.)What the salesguy was saying but (he really didn't know it) and what I found out from a little digging is that PacBell's intent is to only sell xDSl to CLECs ! So then it all makes sense, you need a router that connects to their ATM cloud, then they just route the traffic from their copper on over to your routers and presto! You are an xDSL enabled ISP!This is crap. Covad, Brainstorm, DNAI, etc. are CLECs?! I don't think so. Yet they seem to be able to offer xDSL using P*B.
not yet, but I bet in two years time they wiil be (or will be going out of business) When we started InterNex P*B didn't offer ISDN either, now try to make money on that type of connectivity in the Bay Area.
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- Re: Microsoft offering xDSL access Jay R. Ashworth (Jan 22)
- Re: Microsoft offering xDSL access Adam Rothschild (Jan 23)
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- Re: Microsoft offering xDSL access Henry Linneweh (Jan 23)
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- Re: Microsoft offering xDSL access Jay R. Ashworth (Jan 23)
- Re: Microsoft offering xDSL access David Lesher (Jan 23)
- Re: [nanog] Re: Microsoft offering xDSL access Stephen Balbach (Jan 23)
- Re: Microsoft offering xDSL access Geoff White (Jan 23)
- Re: Microsoft offering xDSL access ^Faust^ (Jan 23)
- Re: Microsoft offering xDSL access Geoff White (Jan 23)
- Re: Microsoft offering xDSL access Robert E. Seastrom (Jan 23)
- Re: Microsoft offering xDSL access Greg Simpson (Jan 23)
- Re: Microsoft offering xDSL access ^Faust^ (Jan 23)
- Re: Microsoft offering xDSL access Nathan Stratton (Jan 23)
- Re: Microsoft offering xDSL access Geoff White (Jan 23)
- Re: Microsoft offering xDSL access Dalvenjah FoxFire (Jan 23)
- RE: Microsoft offering xDSL access David Lemson (Jan 26)
- Re: Microsoft offering xDSL access Sharif Torpis (Jan 24)
- Re: Microsoft offering xDSL access Geoff White (Jan 24)
- Re: [nanog] Re: Microsoft offering xDSL access Stephen Balbach (Jan 23)