ADSL by GTE Network Services in Beaverton, Oregon, Durham, North Carolina, West Lafayette, Indiana, and Kirkland and Redmond, Washington. In addition by summer 1998 end residential service to areas of California, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia, and Wisconsin, and additional regions of North Carolina, Oregon and Washington. Enterprise Edition by Hughes Network Systems offers 24 Mbps, 40x bandwidth of existing satellite systems. The number of cable modems is small as of May 1998, the number is about 200,000 installed in North America as stated by Mario Vecchi, chief Technology Officer at Time Warner Communications. Growth rates are high at an expected 300,000 installed by the year end according to Probe Research, Inc. statistics.
Cable services are available today in more than a dozen metropolitan markets in America.
Cable modem speeds are capable of 1.3 megabit per second transmission speeds. 135,000 end users. Computer Design, April 1998, pg. Lucent Technologies, WildWire , May 1998 website. 1997 - 1999, Optical Automation Inc., All Rights Reserved.