-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Wed, 25 Aug 93 22:36:33 -0600, "L. Detweiler" <uunet!longs.lance.colostate.edu!ld231782> wrote -

Two announcements on products that will bring internet to large audiences. One by Continental Cablevision Inc. The cable line one apparently uses special coaxial cable modems, and apparently is full-duplex (?). On front page of today's Wall St. Journal.

Following that, AT&T announces the Interspan `Frame Relay Services and Information Access Services' to the internet. In the former, one gets `cost-effective' internet capabilities, in the later

Forgive me for furthering this slightly off-topic thread, but Sprint has been offerring Frame Relay data sevices for quite some time, both for private wide-area networks and for interconnectivity to the global internet via SprintLink. Now, Sprint will beat everyone else to the punch offerring up ATM - excerpted from: Communications Week August 23, 1993 pages 1, 144 Sprint Takes Lead in ATM Service Race by Robin Gareiss San Francisco -- Four months ahead of schedule, Sprint will announce this week that its asynchronous transfer mode transmission service is available immediately, according to industry analysts. The service, to be introduced at the INTEROP 93 August show here, will be the first ATM service from a major long distance carrier. [....] Sprint plans to announce flexible, user-specific pricing, according to Jeffrey Held, partner with Ernst & Young's Network Strategies practice, Vienna, Va. Sprint briefed Held on its announcement last week. Sprint originally had planned to make its ATM service available in first-quarter 1994. According to sources, the carrier has been able to step up its plans because trials have gone more smoothly than anticipated. [....] Sprint will let users access its ATM-based service via local switched multimegabit data service or dedicated -T-3 lines, sources said. As specifications evolve, Sprint also will develop interfaces between its ATM and frame-relay and SprintLink TCP/IP services, Held said. [....] 8<-------- End excerpt ------ ferguson@icp.net ,-) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.2 iQCVAgUBLHyJbpRLcZSdHMBNAQHeOgP/Q/sY8kOcjsCF41+GNUl325TX00R0TtJw sxqxGw++lSsRWeA+T+fAU5at9oPaiE7zVgAgNBGoQjGy4Bz+paiyIjK+Mi9YHqa4 ufTKq2bV3ZutruznR1Nk9j3zYi/zGIkdrNg05y4pvEUcLeEgRTfnzo2EhXIu6M5l t6cUjP1XhlY= =exLc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Paul Ferguson | "Government, even in its best state, Network Integrator | is but a necessary evil; in its worst Centreville, Virginia USA | state, an intolerable one." fergp@sytex.com | - Thomas Paine, Common Sense Type bits/keyID Date User ID pub 1024/1CC04D 1993/03/15 Paul Ferguson <fergp@sytex.com> Key fingerprint = EE D2 93 7D 04 6D C6 05 AC 36 AD 9D 8E 4F 41 58