Re: Sprint's New ION products

[DAVE NORDLUND <nordlund () ccstaff cc ukans edu>]

> 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/lanwan
>
> I 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/

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