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Technology Stocks : LAST MILE TECHNOLOGIES - Let's Discuss Them Here
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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (6105)11/28/1999 1:29:00 AM
From: jack bittner  Read Replies (3) of 12823
 
Frank, i am astonshed at what must be the depth of your archives, that you can respond at about 2.5 Gbp/s with that number of post citations on a given subject. probably more and faster on subjects about which you are even more interested.
would you say that your experience with dense fog means that: a)photons can at best supplement radio frequencies;
or b) no one can seek to offer photonic-only last mile transmission without radio wireless backup(i.e. role reversal of a))
knowing the physics as well as you do, would you say only a magician could overcome the fact that light will bounce back off fog? but, then, radio is also affected by weather.
but significantly less so?
are we doomed to be forever tethered to a wire for dependable data transmission?
Lucent says by year-end 2000 they'll be up to 20 Gbp/s by using 8 waves. that's a breathtaking expansion of bandwidth. considering that, isn't it baked in the cake that laser transmission must become dominant in the last mile, with radio as a weather back-up?
if that's true, then re WTC's query about winstar, nextlink and teligent's footprints: would you say they're safe, but they'll have to offer photons as the prime transmission vehicle with their present systems as a backup?
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