| 05/12/98 RMIUG Meeting
- DSL in Colorado
The Tuesday, May 12th meeting of the Rocky
Mountain Internet Users Group will feature
a presentation called "High Speed/ADSL Net
Access in Colorado," an update on new high
speed Internet access coming to a phone
line near you. You've seen the emails about
ADSL (Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line)
and high speed Internet access options flying
across the online discussion lists, you've
seen articles in the paper - find out the
*real* story from our expert panel.
Our first speaker will be Susan Davey
(srdavey@uswest.com),
DSL Marketing Product Manager with US West
!nterprise. Susan will provide background
by explaining ADSL to us - what it is, how
it works and the technology used in rolling
it out. Spike Ilacqua (spike@indra.com),
Chief Technical Officer and co-founder of
Indra's Net will discuss ISDN vs. ADSL,
which customers might benefit from each
of these technologies, and the ISP viewpoint.
Michael Rabb (mrabb@usvoice.com),
president of US Voice Corp, and founder
& president of the Colorado ISDN Interest
Group will further discuss ISDN vs. ADSL
and will apply lessons learned from ISDN
rollout in Colorado to the coming ADSL launch.
We are fortunate to have added another panelist,
Bill Clendenning (billc@cos.wantweb.net)
the Director of Sales for American Telecasting
(WantWeb) which offers high-speed (750 Kbps)
line of sight wireless Net access in Colorado.
Bill will describe the technology they are
using to offer high speed Internet access
with this system. In addition, a representative
from US West.net will be on hand to answer
questions about ADSL rollout in Colorado
by US West.net, the ISP.
URL's of interest:
The meeting is Tuesday, May 12th from
7:00 - 9:00 pm (with optional 6:30 pm start
for refreshments and informal networking).
The meeting will be held at The National
Center for Atmospheric Research (note: new
location!) at 1850 Table Mesa Drive in Boulder,
which is located on the west end of Table
Mesa Drive, up the hill, right under the
Flatirons. For door-to-door driving direction,
go to MapQuest (http://www.mapquest.com/
), click on TripQuest, enter your starting
address, NCAR's address, and voila! Park
in the NCAR lot, go in the main door, and
ask the guard to point you to meeting, which
is held in the main auditorium, right off
the lobby. The meeting is free and open
to the public, but we may pass the hat to
help defray expenses.
RMIUG appreciates the ongoing support
from XOR Network Engineering (http://www.xor.com)
for administration of RMIUG's electronic
discussion lists & WWW site. Thanks also
to NDA (http://www.nda.com)
for sponsorship of refreshments for our
group.
Consultants and companies are invited
to bring Internet-related product information,
brochures, and business cards which will
be displayed on an information table.
There is an email mailing list set up
for this group. General information can
be obtained by sending an Email to rmiug@rmiug.org
which will generate an auto-reply message
that tells you about the lists and how to
subscribe. You can also reach the RMIUG
"Executive" Committee at rmiug-comm@rmiug.org.
Our WWW site is at http://www.rmiug.org/
Tentative schedule of upcoming RMIUG meetings:
- July 14: Hot Internet startups in Colorado
- panel of CEO's/founders Sept: (pending)
Secrets of the Pros on Maintaining HUGE
Web Sites, a behind-the-scenes peek at
large, well-known web sites by the experts
who maintain them.
- Nov: TBA
(To suggest a topic, send your idea to
rmiug-comm@rmiug.org) |
