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
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