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To: ahhaha who wrote (9036)5/4/1999 9:45:00 PM
From: ftth  Read Replies (1) of 29970
 
Not to mention quantity (and servicibility, expansion, and a few others). Gilder put it in this perspective when speaking on fiber bandwidth:

For comparison, consider all the radio frequencies currently used in the air for radio, television, microwave, and satellite communications and multiply by two thousand.

The bandwidth of one fiber thread could carry more than two thousand times as much information as all these radio and microwave
frequencies that currently comprise the "air." One fiber thread could bear twice the traffic on the phone network during the peak hour of Mothers' Day in the U.S. (the heaviest load currently managed by the phone system).

dh

p.s. still, satellite services will have their place for certain applications and because of ground-based deployment limitations. This is true worldwide. There are plenty of services (especially mobile services) that have no need for huge bandwidth. I suppose you could argue there are NO services today that can deliver huge bandwidth, but that will change.
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