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- From: vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.cell-relay
- Subject: Re: Curious attitude ...
- Message-ID: <o07h16g@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com>
- Date: 31 Jul 92 17:17:54 GMT
- References: <1992Jul30.074342.5506@dxcern.cern.ch> <12464@janice> <12471@ntdd-1>
- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
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- In article <12471@ntdd-1>, grayt@Software.Mitel.COM (Tom Gray) writes:
- >
- > Not trying to be sarcastic but only asking for your views,
- > what services do you see that will fill up gigabit networks
- > to the home?
-
-
- Examples:
- video
- entertainment, whether TV or HDTV.
- picture phones
- remote monitoring (i.e. burglar alarms)
-
-
- data
- remote access to encylopedias, stock market info, etc.
-
- This stuff wants as many bits as video, since much of
- it will be "multimedia" and so include "graphics"
-
- telecommuting
-
- Some of us doing this will eat up as many bits as we can get
- Anything for which we now use LAN's we will use The Phone
- Co or the Cable-TV Company, provided the cost is not much
- more than measured-rate telephone service.
-
- Some people keep LAN's saturated. Usually not those
- with PC-AT clones, even PC-AT-486 clones.
-
- Much of this will be intermittent: 10MBytes/sec or 100Mbit/sec for
- 1 to 100 minutes.
-
- This is not Gigabit rates, but then few people are talking about Gb to
- the home. Most of us would settle for 1Mbit/sec or even 100Kbit/sec
- for the next several years. The Phone Co. cannot gives those rates
- now, except in special circumstances and/or at high prices. (Yes, I
- know a little about ISDN, SMDS, switched-56, and so on. Try buying it
- for your home.)
-
-
- Vernon Schryver, vjs@sgi.com
-