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To: tekboy who wrote (25228)	5/23/2000 8:17:00 PM
From: Thomas Mercer-Hursh	Read Replies (4) of 54805

Nice piece of analogy making, but I have one quibble: The reason is simple -- photons travel through glass much more quickly than electrons travel through wire. In short, optical delivery offers far more bandwidth potential than electrical delivery. I may be wrong ... it has been a while since I worked with this aspect of the stuff directly ... but isn't this technically incorrect? Is the speed of both an apprecible fraction of the speed of light, but the point being that you can send a load more information down a fiber than any corresponding piece of wire -- more the 40 lanes versus 1 lane per the analogy -- the cars aren't going any faster, there are just a whole lot more of them in any given cross section.

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