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To: Keith Hankin who wrote (4352)	1/17/1999 2:44:00 AM
From: Jing Qian	Read Replies (1) of 29970

>>What is the bandwidth required for MPEG2 sound?<< MPEG2 is a compressing protocol. It can compress trememduous amount of voice frames into one IP packet. Voice is the simplest form of multimedia. It doesn't need a lot of bandwidth. A 10K bps is more than enough for stereo quality sound. What could be hogging the net work is streaming videos. Generally MPEG video requires much higher bandwidth in the range from 1 Mbps to 10 Mbps. That's why cable has the advantage. Cable transmission is simply faster than ADSL and its bandwidth is sharable. Sharable bandwidth makes best use of resources, so the cost is lower than ADSL. The cost is another reason that will kill the deployment of ADSL from baby bells. SBC may go belly up before they wired up every home with ADSL service. I am saying Cable is cheap. But it's a lot cheaper to build than ADSL networks. >>Maybe long term. But it will be a long time before people will be doing what you mention here. It requires the new technology to hook up to your refrigerator, hooked together into a local network at home. Plus it requires a substantial ...<< Being a Cisco engineer, I know that Cisco has already worked on equipments to wire up everything at home, including a frig. Please read the article "Cisco's Plan to Pop Up in Your Home" in the latest issue of Fortune Magazine, Feb 1, 1999, Page 119. You will know what I write in my previous post is not my crazy imagination.

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