Oops, already answered...Steve, your concentration must have lapsed...<where did you ascertain that Q has a stake in Airfiber? >From nbfm's post Message 12441355
<About half of that came in the third quarter of 1999, when Air Fiber raised $37.5 million in a second-round financing deal that included Foundation Capital, Qualcomm, Northern Telecom and other major corporations, in addition to Enterprise Partners. >
Data buffers shouldn't be too much trouble. And anyway, with redundancy, they might not be needed - if one link gets a heatwave, bird or tree blowing in the way, another would provide the info. The receiver could match the two signals and fill in any gaps, or just ask the original supplier for a resend of whatever went missing if it's important enough.
Mqurice
PS: Aussies overloaded the phones. They should put Cat's Eyes on the phones instead of telling people not to use them, which of course they ignore. One day somebody will figure it out.< Australians Ignore Congestion Warnings
Even though wireless and wireline subscribers were given plenty of notice not to run to their phones on New Years, they did exactly that, with Telstra saying large amounts of traffic caused congestion on its mobile and international telephone networks. >
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