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WCOM datacom strategyThis is probably a special case; Rhythms was WCOM's partner in the DSL biz (see here), providing WorldCom with CO co-locs and service in markets that weren't profitable or possible for the company to penetrate, and WCOM was therefore not in a position to easily leave Rhythms behind. When Rhythms entered financial trouble, the deathwatch analysis included wargaming possible scenarios WCOM might choose to maintain its xDSL product. Purchasing Rhythms' assets is the most expensive, especially given current capital problems in the telecom industry, but assuming corporate liabilities shifts most of that burden onto future earnings, and the addition to WCOM's physical and contracted networks is substantial. This should also reduce time-to-market for xDSL products and services, since bringing the Rhythms networks in-house will remove the need to link across corporate and systems boundaries. In the medium- and long-terms, this is an up for WCOM.
Nonetheless, WCOM's CLEC status does make it vulnerable to changes in the telecom regulatory sphere, and this only increases their sensitivity to potential ILEC-sponsored legislation. The recent tragedies in New York and Washington have back-burnered many of the bills in the telecom regulatory war, but watch for the introduction of sub rosa amendments and riders by both sides of the industry in the coming months.
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Oh, go ahead, be harsh.Expidant. What a dumb-ass name! Totally forgettable and meaningless - and I bet they paid $100Ks for it. At least their logo doesn't have a fscking swoosh.
Seriously, folks, do you think you're impressing anyone by choosing random syllables and attaching them to each other? Any two-year-old can do that. Maybe you would need a twelve-year-old who just took a SAT vocabulary class to pick out "impressive" "bold" "corporate" yet "soft" "fuzzy" syllables, but please! Can't your name have some content?
Yeah, I know, trademarkable, yadda yadda. Well, there are still "new" companies with good names. In fact, some of them are bankrupt and surely willing to sell the names to the highest bidder!
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Why work at Rhythms?Their bankruptcy problems undoubtedly trace back to their free sodas and fruit.
Fruit?
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Their Website Is Down Already!
Hey! They should maintain their website for at least a couple of months to inform their user. Check out www.rhythms.net
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DSL Hell
Oh the horror stories I've witnessed in the LA, California area. A DSL installation taking 2 months is not out of the norm. Don't EVER order DSL from the phone company, but don't be surprised if your ISP goes out of business. Speeds vary depending upon your distance from the CO and if you're too far...you're just plum out of luck as far as DSL. And the damn commitment contracts they make you sign...I actually had an ISP tell me that I would still be obligated to pay them if I moved before the commitment was up and they didn't provide service to my new home!
Needless to say...it took Adelphia forever to get the two way cable lines in my area, so I signed up with Rythms . They are simply THE BEST ISP...they actually encourage and provide information for running mp3 and game servers, while other ISP's consider that abuse of the service.
Check them out if you're know anyone looking for an ISP...and tell them username = pjwal referred you so I can get a free month!
My buddy gets 2Mb/s down on his Time Warner cable modem in Huntington Beach. Adelphia finally has Powerlink available in Manhattan Beach and I'll be getting it this Sat side by side w/ my DSL. Anyone know if Powerlink caps uploads? -
Re:DSL vs cable
I was under the impression that Flashcom was the CLEC here. According to your post, and from what I can understand, Flashcom is probably reselling Covad's services. Covad is the CLEC, not Flashcom.
Correct (although in my case, they're using the ILEC, Pac Bell, rather than any CLEC).
As far as I know, they're not just reselling Covad's services, though; I don't think Covad is doing the routing for them, I have the impression Covad just moves data from some ILEC's CO to Flashcom's routers.
As far as Pacbell's ATM net, they are probably referring to their own DSL service offering, which does not have anything to do with Covad, or Flashcom.
They're referring, as far as I know, to the pipe they provide between a subscriber and their ATM net, and to the ATM services they're providing to ISPs including but not limited to Pacific Bell Internet. See, for example, this diagram on Pac Bell's site, which shows the line to the CO, the DSLAM in the CO, and the ATM network - they run a PVC over that network to the ISP, or to a corporate LAN if the DSL circuit is being used for telecommuting to work rather than connecting to an ISP.
For CLECs, the picture is probably the same, except that the DSLAM belongs to the CLEC and is in the cage they rent from the ILEC, and, presumably, so does the ATM network - this page on Rhythms' Web site seems to imply that they have their own ATM network, independent of any ILEC's network.
They probably use a pots splitter
Yes, there's a splitter at my demarcation point, which sends stuff up to 4KHz, presumably, along one wire, into which my Plain Old Telephones plug, and stuff above 4KHz along another wire, into which my DSL box plugs. There's also a device at the CO that does the same; that's presumably the "Mux" in the aforementioned diagram on Pac Bell's Web site.
Which DSLAM (Pacbell's or Covad's or Rhythms' or ours hopefully some day) depends on who sends you your bill, and or who send them their bill.
Pac Bell puts a USD 39.95 item on my phone bill for DSL, so it's presumably their DSLAM. (I presume Flashcom will send me a USD 10.00 bill one of these days; they may offer "first month free", but it's been more than a month - I should call them to find out what the story is, as I don't want to have my Internet service cut off for non-payment of a bill that I never got in the first place....)