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At our July meeting, several presenters gave us a variety of
perspectives on ADSL-- Asymmetric
Digital Subscriber Loop-- the new technology being offered
by U S WEST that promises to provide Internet access ranging
from 256 Kbps to 768 Kbps all over an existing phone line that
can still be used for normal telephony purposes.
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Susan Davey
(srdavey at uswest.com),
DSL Marketing Product Manager with
U S WEST !nterprise discussed the technology, service offerings,
and the history and challenges of delivering ADSL service. She
was be joined by Susan Chandler, an ATM engineer who will be
providing us with more of the networking architecture behind
ADSL service.
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Spike Ilacqua
(spike at indra.com),
Chief Technical Officer and co-founder
of Indra's Net, a Boulder-based ISP, discussed their service
offerings, experiences deploying the service in Boulder, and contrasted
their ISDN service with ADSL-- Spike's opinion is that ISDN
will still be around for a long time.
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Barb Dijker
(barb at netrack.net)
of Boulder-based Netrack,
discussed their service offerings, and some of the interesting ways
in which Netrack provides ADSL service to both end-users, businesses,
and even other ISPs.
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John DeWolf
(john.dewolfe at dewolfe.com)
presented his experiences
ordering and using U S WEST's ISP service, including the story
of his ADSL installation, his upgrading to 512 Kbps service, and
his use of static IP addressing.
The complete story of John's
experience with US WEST is documented in e-mail, which he
has graciously given us to post. When you read the e-mail, be
sure to read the whole history before you make conclusions, because
even John's conclusions change through the history.
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Brad Owens
(owenbl at seqnet.net)
discussed his experiences using
ADSL ISP service through Louisville-based SEQNET.
Thanks again, everyone, for making this such a successful and
interesting meeting!
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