Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!bellcore!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: johnl@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us (John R. Levine) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: What is SONET? Message-ID: Date: 20 Oct 89 16:39:36 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: johnl@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us Organization: Segue Software, Cambridge MA Lines: 27 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 464, message 8 of 9 In article amc-gw!ssc!tad@beaver.cs. washington.edu writes: >Seriously....I always thought SONET referred to Southern New England >Telephone Co! No, that's SNET, pronounced snet, or perhaps SNET Co., pronounced snetco. When I lived in New Haven, all sorts of events happened at the SNET Co. auditorium. Since SNET was an AT&T affiliate rather than a subsidiary, they are not subject to all the restrictions on the RBOCs and they set up a subsidiary sonorously named Sonecor which attempts without notable success to make big bucks in unregulated businesses. SNET lives in my memory as the only phone company ever to send me a "pay or we'll turn off your phone" letter before they even sent the bill. John R. Levine, Segue Software, POB 349, Cambridge MA 02238, +1 617 864 9650 johnl@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us, {ima|lotus|spdcc}!esegue!johnl Massachusetts has over 100,000 unlicensed drivers. -The Globe [Moderator's Note: I might add that SNET Financial Services, Inc. is a big lender of money for people who buy computer systems. In my real life work, they are a client of ours. They lend *huge* amounts of money to commercial borrowers, and function as a factor for computer brokers. PT]