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To: Alejandro who wrote (10086)1/20/1999 11:34:00 AM
From: SteveG  Read Replies (1) of 12468
 
<..Guess the proper question is can wireless handle as much as fiber...>

No. Fiber will always have a significant bandwidth advantage. The question is, at what point would we need local speeds that fiber can offer. It seems that the Tbps capabilities of fiber will rarely be justified in the local loop. For efficient flow, arterioles are necessarily smaller than the arteries that feed them. Besides, the financially-justified alternative for 95% of the commercial buildings out there is NOT fiber. We are competing against the much lower bandwidth capabilities of the established copper plant through ADSL - a no brainer for the business bandwidth user.
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