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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (560)	2/25/2002 9:31:14 PM
From: MSI	Read Replies (1) of 586

"Here's another tidbit for the naysayers of the optical revolution; the metro buildout will be 25x the cost and time of the long haul build." That's quite a tidbit... One issue I haven't see addressed is how much can one user consume? The firehose only needs to be big enough for full-mo video in hi-res, the rest is file-swapping among backbone servers, I would think, if latency is reduced to circuit-net speeds. Even so, 25x sounds like a correct order of magnitude, considering few have DSL and noone has full-mo hi-res yet in the home retail market. More to the point, what this does to long-haul when aggregating multi-megabits from hundreds of millions of users is make it fashionable to be in the undersea fiber biz again.

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