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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (12266)	7/11/1999 8:01:00 PM
From: E. Davies	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29970

if the original one was robust enough to support multiple virtual links (with each virtual link possessing sufficient or comparable capacity as would be designated for actual use) to the physical ones you would have installed. This of course requires two things: An overwhelming amount of unused bandwidth and the ability to partition it out to individual providers. The first is of course in reality unattainable. Run fiber to the curb (who would pay for this?) and everyone would easily find use for 10mbit streams of data. There is never enough. I keep hearing it is not the cost of the wire that is the major expense & complication it is the cost of digging the trenches. Lets make everyone share the trench (and other right of ways) but run their own wires. The second has always been a point of interest to me. A lot of the "open" access issues would be mitigated if it were possible to provide virtually separate spaces over which the ISPs could operate. For example to take 2 40Mbit channels (80Mbit) and split it 50/20/10 between three different ISP's. This is certainly a theoretical possibility. How far from acheivable is this with current technology? Eric