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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (19467)	2/7/2000 5:57:00 PM
From: Steve Lewis	Read Replies (1) of 29970

I learn from your posts and many others on the ATHM thread. A comment. While FTTH or FTTC(urb) approaches are superior to any HFC solution, there seems to be significant issues that delay our future light-based communications infrastructure. Maybe the next president will accelerate a national deployment (ala electricfication in the 1920's or highway building in the 40's/50's) as most of us would urge/support. I am involved with broadcast television engineering where fiber is used along with different kinds of coax. The Belden spec'd cable (1694A) for uncompressed HDTV signals(1.5Gb) can handle the bits for around 200 feet (which is fine for inside a television technical plant). While this cable isn't appropriate for use as a final 'loop', it does show the possibility for some coax to remain in the picture. OTOH a pulling of a new cable to each and every house might as well be fiber provide the home's CPE can handle the fiber. Or perhaps 1000base-T cable should be used which can use 100-350Mhz category 5 twisted pair(it uses all 4 pairs and is good for around 200(?) meters I believe). I guess my point is that fiber is better but that metal may do fine for the next decade or so. At the recent ComNet show in January it was interesting to see the growth of passive optical components for network interconnection & WAN applications (OC-3-12-48-192, OC-n). I look forward to the day that we are using optical networking components for LAN connections.

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