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- From: craig@sics.se (Craig Partridge)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.cell-relay
- Subject: copper/fiber to the home
- Message-ID: <1992Jul26.234651.11620@sics.se>
- Date: 26 Jul 92 23:46:51 GMT
- Organization: Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Kista
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- > 100Mb/s over copper to the home?
- > What kind of lichen are the Lapps giving you to smoke over there?
-
- Actually, it is the California smog -- I'm now working out of Palo Alto and
- have become reacquainted with what we do to our lungs in the US. I
- just post from Sweden because my netnews keeps blowing my posts and I
- haven't had time waste a day fixing ill-documented PD software.
-
- You're right that I was assuming fiber to the local distribution box, and
- copper from there. My understanding is that folks thought they'd learned how to
- get 100Mbits/sec over existing unshielded twisted-pair in office buildings
- and figured we could probably use something like that technology to deal
- with the last 100 meters. I heard an AT&T presentation that predicted that
- fiber to most local distribution boxes in the US would have been
- achieved by 2000. Voila -- real bandwidth to the home. Your comments
- about what has really been done for FDDI lead me to believe I
- was over-optimistic.
-
- Craig Partridge
- craig@bbn.com
-