Marshall: Tech worries fading.(AT&T Broadband forges deal with EarthLink)
Multichannel News, March, 2002 by Brown, Karen
Once upon a time, cable operators resisted those who pressured them to open their networks to competing Internet-service providers, arguing that it would pose a technical nightmare. But as cable-modem platforms have evolved, that's no longer the case, said AT&T Broadband senior vice president of advanced broadband services Susan Marshall.
AT&T plans to add Earth-Link Inc. as an alternative ISP, and that's possible because of the new network the MSO created to replace the bankrupt At Home Corp.'s platform. At Home was built "before anybody even knew what open access was," Marshall said. "Well, either for good or for bad, the At Home demise then gave us the opportunity to build the network the way we now know it needed to be built." Using...
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