Zorro, thanks for the help and information. Maybe between you, Teegir, and Ric, I'll get this all figured out.
Can you help me out with a couple questions?
1) The picture said "AT&T installs a Customer Radio at the home and connects it to the existing inside wiring". But they also said they would have many times the capacity of traditional copper wires (aren't they really only talking about twice current speeds?). It seems if they don't rewire your house with cable, your copper wire will bog down the whole system. Wouldn't everyone have to have an ISDN modem on their computer to realize any increased speed? ISDN has never caught on due to modem cost and complexity I thought.
2) They stated this system will be the communication medium of the 21st century. I've read that 128 kbps is not going to be fast enough to deliver the future internet, let alone the explosion thats coming in information and communication ie video on demand etc. It seems that with what eveyone else is developing, ie ADSL, cable modems, 38 GHz, AT&T's system stands to be obsolete by 1998, let alone the "communication medium of the 21st century". This doesn't seem it should be good enough for AT&T. Whats up, or am I missing something?
Thanks for any help,
Steve |
