HOME RUN OR HYPE? oprint Heralds Plans for Future Network Service By Arik Hesseldahl PRINT TRUMPETED ITS plans last S week to become a major player in the local broadband Internet access market with a ser- vice—based on a new network ar- chitecture—that the telco said will offer businesses and consumers high-speed Internet connections, voice, data, videoconferencing, and desktop collaboration simul- taneously over a single phone line. But because Sprint provided few details about its new offering, the Integrated On-Demand Net- work (ION), some observers were skeptical of ION’s promise. “My gut says that this is not go- See SPRINT NETWORK, page 53mor purann—sopeis pan rpaoay2-O5U REL TENOR ‘wer guthr ann oupn 20049 ope owe wer myaan—wer ony RUMLSMULSHEM ‘SS2ION AEUERS— -Y9.M ZUNYONS-T99 amp YBNomy sno aqes0di09 owos YIM 18aK ‘DRes uosuigoyS90p 300 Jo opamp Siuuids ‘uosIgeY [oy ssadd8} sey auOKIaAa BENEIq 4 parBarfap ‘WAV Fuysn aim, "aAdtjaq 01 POM oxp Oy, Aueduioo supa ayy ox asnf —ssny pres ‘ggg IMoqe 3809 0} ‘KmeDaMeadoadno,, ‘es puE EM —-NMe afUIS w ON OYEN [Te ap! —uowoUNoUNE ERT SIL ‘an nok ret 30) NOK aBLEYD pure —_paqoadxa are pur ‘uoRETTEISU|IS ; ‘Si199 Jo Jaquinu ayy JayUI ay, JOY $9105 YoRYS OIpEY Woy pu