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scayyver
join:2001-12-23
Mission, KS
| Sprint ION, signing off.
The last day of the Sprint ION platform has arrived. Typically, when Sprint is to perform 'maintanence' on a given day, it tends to be at 02:00 CST.
Which implies that many ION users will wake up tomorrow w/o net access. I could be wrong, however. One day will not truly change the scope.
I go to work this evening at Sprint (mid shift), and will arrive home to shut down my servers, and begin the wait for Sprint to release my pair. From there, I will investigate my options, and perhaps score Everest, the only equivalent game in town.
To all of you stalwart types that held the line until it was 'downsized', I salute you. May the economy spring back quickly, so many unemployed people can get jobs, and lives, and maybe another provider will attempt the same amazing broadband concept.
Scayyver
P.S. : A little but of ION lore that I learned from an ex-ION testing engineer: during the last summer of ION (pre 9-11), there was a field trial in Nevada, for Enhanced Sprint ION. This effort was to literally drive optical fiber to the homes of subscribers (similar to the way phone over cable companies do so). Over this fiber was the 8.0 mbs QOS, multiple phone lines, and 200 + cable channels.
ALL W/O the middlemen. Sprint was going to offer the wonder connection, and cut out the CLECs, and other hurdles, by teaming up with utility companies. - Run the fiber w/ the power lines.
Then economic history took an very harsh turn. | |
Darkflight
3G Stitch626
join:2001-03-03
Rowland Heights, CA
| Scayyer, if you ever come out west to the ISSC, feel free to swing by and say hello. I would love to meet you and take you across to Champions for a free lunch. It shouldn't be hard to figure out which desk is mine. (hint: Sprint ION hubs make good paperweights)
I just want to add that it's amazing that two years ago when I first got introduced the possibility of ION i was totally bedazzled on what it was capable of doing, what it was going to do and where we had been. I had actually just gone full time pernament with Sprint and when they offered ION to my area in June of 2K1, I was obviously all over it and one of the first on the block to promote it. Then of course 9/11 hit, and all the plans and programs that I had participated in at Sprint (ION, SBBD, etc) had their futures changed in a way never before endeavoured. While I never got the opportunity to transition to the downsized version, I did keep my ION until they shut things down in my area in May of this year. Of course by then I knew that my future would not be in Sacto so keeping ION or BizDSL was not going to happen. Nevertheless, I've worked with many folks to try and promote the service and support the pre-installation. I still remember working late one Friday evening just to get 5 orders in for one of Sacto's favorite juice companies. I hope that someday we'll be able to bring the service back, perhaps related to G2 or 3G/4G or something totally different. I can only continue forward, pushing to do what I can to make things better for all. For all of you who have been a part of this forum and supporters of Sprint, I thank you in my own opinion, and I will always be glad you were there. For all others, it is better to try and fail, then to never have tried at all, for that would be the ultimate failure.
To all my friends that I have lost over the last few years, I will never forget you all, and may your own travels be prosperous. To those still with Sprint, the above offer applies to you all. (Email in advance if poss.)
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Darkflight- Have you seen where my bandwidth went lately? | |
brisonic
join:2001-08-05
San Diego, CA
| reply to scayyver
r u friggin serious with that enhanced product? That is unbelievable. Canada has fiber to the door in a lot of the nation, hence last mile bs isnt as much of an issue for them. The set top box as originally envisioned was a lot closer than I previously knew. | |
popanot
join:2001-10-17
Houston, TX
| reply to scayyver
P.S. : A little but of ION lore that I learned from an ex-ION testing engineer: during the last summer of ION (pre 9-11), there was a field trial in Nevada, for Enhanced Sprint ION. This effort was to literally drive optical fiber to the homes of subscribers (similar to the way phone over cable companies do so). Over this fiber was the 8.0 mbs QOS, multiple phone lines, and 200 + cable channels.
Don't make me cry. I've been downlaoding all day from a OC connection and it's been reminding me of my 'ol ION. Downloads of 50MB in seconds...*snif, snif* :-( | |
tracyt
I got it 6016 768
join:2000-12-30
Spring, TX | AND we used to complain when we didn't get 4 times what we get now.... Those where the good ole' days!!! PLEASE come back ION and all of this was just a nightmare!!!! | |
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