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Technology Stocks : LAST MILE TECHNOLOGIES - Let's Discuss Them Here

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To: pass pass who wrote (9979)12/29/2000 10:29:29 PM
From: Wallof Confusion  Read Replies (1) of 12823
 
Your questions are the questions everyone on this thread is looking to answer IMO.

My workplace might have 500 workstations and there are 3 full time IT folks running around all day working out bugs and maintaining servers, workstations, and all the associated software. Of course, the software (and hardware for that matter, including the method of connection), is fairly standardized to enable the network to work properly.

How might one propose all homes are connected to the network (internet)? Since there is no absolute standard, it's open for competition to connect each house. A phone line connects one way, cable another. Both seem to have limitations when bandwidth shall become more necessary (video, VoIP, etc.). So, do we wait ‘till someone installs ftth? Will wireless be able to fulfill the last mile conundrum? How about Terrabeam? Satellite?

An interesting discussion that touches on the issues of standardization ( along with many other pertinent issues) begins on the "New" FCTF in this post on bandwidth traders by ftth.
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Follow up posts by Jim Kayne, Raymond Duray, and Frank C. continuing here. . .
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Take it easy,
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