#: 6164 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
    16-Aug-90  16:56:08
Sb: #6163-We're in Beta!
Fm: Mark Wuest 74030,332
To: Tom Napolitano 70215,1130

Tom,
 The RAPP is for internal AT&T use only. It is only one of many, many systems
that help AT&T provide all of the services that it does. An example of one of
the end-user services unavailable without its predecessor is the ability to
allow certain business users access to the line monitoring and conditioning
equipment that is hanging on their facilities even though it is AT&T owned and
maintained. The RAPP will enhance this feature considerably. Again, this is
only one service out of many that depend on it.
 The largest offices are Broadway/Thomas in Manhattan, 54th St in Manhattan,
Los Angeles and Denver. Of course "large" depends upon what you are looking at.
L.A. has another large Central Office (C.O.), Atlanta is big, White Plains NY
is large from an International standpoint, etc... AT&T has many more C.O.s
than, say, MCI or Sprint. This makes our Network the most reliable in the world
(except for one day earlier this year, ahhummm). It also means that our "big"
C.O.s are not *THAT* much bigger than our small ones (with a few exceptionally
small ones - I know of a few with only one DACS frame).
 I'm an engineer - they don't *TELL* me any marketing information!
 Mark