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To: nord who wrote (9711)	2/17/1999 8:23:00 PM
From: nord	Read Replies (1) of 18016

so there may be some need for backbone fotr bundled broadband afterall. One point in the cable modem vs. xDSL debate which I don't see mentioned enough is bandwidth. Cable modems offer a maximum bandwidth of 1 GHz vs. xDSL connections over twisted pair wires which have a maximum bandwidth of 1 MHz. If you believe Claude Shannon (the inventor of information theory) then the most effective vehicle for overcoming inefficiencies in switching and power consumption is to use bandwidth as an alternative to using expensive and power consuming switching systems. As Shannon would express it "use bandwidth to make your signals wide and weak."

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