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Re: Sprint's New ION products
From: DAVE NORDLUND <nordlund () ccstaff cc ukans edu>
Date: Wed, 03 Jun 1998 16:33:02 +0000
Date: Wed, 03 Jun 1998 12:07:04 -0500 From: Peter Leppik <pleppik () dainrauscher com> Subject: Re: Sprint's New ION products To: kbrown () primelink com, nanog () merit edu
At 10:46 AM 6/3/98 , kbrown () primelink com wrote: [...]Has anyone heard any additional information or have any more insight into this announcement? I am curious how this might affect the remainder of the industry. Kevin Brown Huber & Associates, Inc. Networking Technologies kbrown () primelink com http://www.primelink.com/haa/lanwanI listened to Sprint's press conference yesterday. I came away with a few solid observations/facts: 1) The press conference was an hour-long commercial for ION. 2) The service will be based on an all-ATM network, doing voice over ATM, and IP over ATM.
Hmmmm. An ATM box for $200 at Radio Shack???
3) It will be at least a year before ION is deployed to residential customers. 4) It isn't clear that Sprint knows how to solve the last mile problem in the face of RBOC stonewalling. Finally, in the interest of historical perspective, I would like to point out that, if dramatic carrier announcements are to be believed, by today most everyone in the country should be able to order AT&T local service deployed over a 128 Kbps wireless link, and most people in U.S. West territory should be able to buy DSL-based Internet access for $40/month. These things have a way of not going as planned. ----------- Peter U. Leppik, Senior Research Associate Dain Rauscher Wessels, Equity Capital Markets pleppik () dainrauscher com http://www.dainrauscher.com/
Dave Nordlund d-nordlund () ukans edu University of Kansas 785/864-0450 Computing Services FAX 913/864-0485 Lawrence, KS 66045 KANREN
Current thread:
- Sprint's New ION products kbrown (Jun 03)
- Re: Sprint's New ION products Paul Ferguson (Jun 03)
- Re: Sprint's New ION products Scott Brim (Jun 03)
- Re: Sprint's New ION products Perry E. Metzger (Jun 03)
- RE: Sprint's New ION products Tom Walton (Jun 03)
- Re: Sprint's New ION products Jeff Burson (Jun 03)
- Re: Sprint's New ION products David Lesher (Jun 03)
- Re: Sprint's New ION products DAVE NORDLUND (Jun 03)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Sprint's New ION products Peter Leppik (Jun 03)
- Re: Sprint's New ION products DAVE NORDLUND (Jun 03)
- Re: Sprint's New ION products Kent W. England (Jun 03)
- Re: Sprint's New ION products Marty (Jun 03)
- Re: Sprint's New ION products Nathan Stratton (Jun 03)
- Re: Sprint's New ION products Joe Loiacono (Jun 04)
- RE: Sprint's New ION products Pete Farmer (Jun 03)
- Re: Sprint's New ION products Stephen Sprunk (Jun 03)
- Re: Sprint's New ION products Bret McDanel (Jun 04)
- Re: Sprint's New ION products Stephen Sprunk (Jun 03)
- RE: Sprint's New ION products Doug Stanfield (Jun 03)
- RE: Sprint's New ION products Derek Elder (Jun 04)
- RE: Sprint's New ION products Derek Elder (Jun 04)
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- Re: Sprint's New ION products Paul Ferguson (Jun 03)