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Date: Fri, 7 Nov 1997 11:59:26 -0500 (EST)
From: Steve Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net>
To: spork <spork@super-g.com>
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Subject: Re: ADSL
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On Fri, 7 Nov 1997, spork wrote:

> We were talking with NYNEX briefly and you basically have two ways to go
> with this:
> 
> 1) Become a CLEC, buy equipment that meets Bell standards and co-locate at
> some COs.  The telco will bring copper to you.  They will make no
> guarantees on the quality of the copper; maybe it will work for xDSL,
> maybe not ;)  Run a big fat expensive pipe to colo for your bandwidth.
> 
> 2) Hope your office is very close to CO.  When a customer orders service,
> you order dry copper to the CO as well.  Telco ties the two copper lines
> together so there is a path from the customer to your facilities.  Same
> lack of guarantees on line qualities.  Buy big bandwidth.
> 
> We gave up because of all the "ifs".
> 


Im looking at this and spectrum - Nynex sucks - period - so we are trying
to work with the smaller phone companies, and around them all.

> 
> Charles Sprickman                                  Internet Channel
> spork@super-g.com                                  access@inch.com
> 
> ----                                                          ----
>             "I'm not a prophet or a stone-age man
>              Just a mortal with potential of a superman
>              I'm living on"      -DB
> 
> On Fri, 7 Nov 1997, Steve Hovey wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Anyone out there using ADSL?
> > 
> 
>