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- From: habs@panix.com (Harry Shapiro)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.cell-relay
- Subject: Re: > Cell SIze
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.022446.11960@panix.com>
- Date: 27 Jul 92 02:24:46 GMT
- References: <1992Jul26.023447.21173@sics.se> <np16p2o@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com>
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- >In article <1992Jul26.023447.21173@sics.se>, craig@sics.se (Craig
- Partridge) writes:
-
- >> I was not focussing on data traffic. I was focussing on the future,
- >> and transmission speeds in 100s of Mbits (yes to the home -- we can run
- >> 100 Mbit/sec over twisted pair...)
-
- In <np16p2o@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com> vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon
- Schryver) writes:
-
- >100Mb/s over copper to the home?
- >What kind of lichen are the Lapps giving you to smoke over there?
-
- >Today you can't even get 0.128Mb/s unless you are next door to a phone
- >company building! (the 18,000 wire-feet-to-the-CO ISDN restriction.)
-
- >Perhaps the Bellcore plans for fiber-to-the-curb or fiber-to-the-
- >(whatever-they-call-the-box-on-the-street-for-12-houses) will get
- >100Mb/s to the home, with the last few feet over copper. Maybe that's
- >what you meant.
-
-
- >Vernon Schryver, vjs@sgi.com
-
- I have seen plans from Time-Warner where they replace their existing
- plants (trunk and branch) with a optically feed trunk serving a cluster
- of 500 homes. This involves them rebuidling only 20% of their "plant."
-
- They will use such a new plant to deliver video on demand. I can imagine
- them using ATM to get to and from the "cluster." Of course since they
- are wokring a deal with IBM they will probally use PARIS.
-
- ATM to the block or to the neighborhood and coax to the home seems
- like a good concept for the short term (0-16/20 years).
- --
- Harry Shapiro habs@panix.com
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- Private Communication for the Extropian Community since 1991
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