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To: straight life who wrote (4617)	7/13/1999 11:35:00 PM
From: ftth	Respond to of 12823

SL, there's nothing in it really worth repeating (sorry Teddy). His articles typically cover topics already known by this thread and are generally littered with incorrect technical statements, e.g.: "Making downloadable, live-viewing digital movies work takes a little less than a 7 megabytes-per-second Net-access service, easily achievable with both ADSL and cable modems -- though with both cranked-up to speeds not usually delivered to Net-access subscribers by either today." Today's was the first of 4 parts which is supposed to refute these 4 claims (from the article): >>I'm not surprised that there's so much fear and confusion out there about a possible bandwidth glut. A general misunderstanding of the evolving bandwidth market has led to unfortunate and confusing claims by analysts, writers and others -- generally forecasting impending doom for the builders and aggregators of bandwidth. Those claims fall in four areas: There isn't going to be that much demand for more bandwidth. And even if there is, turning on only a fraction of today's so-called "dark fiber" -- buried cable not yet in use -- can handle it just fine. There's so much investment going into bandwidth expansion today that the industry will soon be wildly overbuilt, and bandwidth will fall into the commodity-pricing swamp. Wireless and satellite service is going to wipe out demand for bandwidth over any kind of wire: Before long, everything goes wireless. New technologies, principally Dense Wave-Division Multiplexing, or DWDM, are going to make data transmission so much more efficient that we won't need much more bandwidth than we have today. >>

To: straight life who wrote (4617)	7/14/1999 7:42:00 AM
From: Teddy	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 12823

Anyone hear of somthing like this before? Wednesday July 14, 7:00 am Eastern Time Company Press Release Lucent Technologies Announces Breakthrough Optical Networking System That Delivers High-Speed Data Networking Through the Air Global Crossing will be first to test MURRAY HILL, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 14, 1999-- Using beams of light to transmit information directly through the air, a breakthrough optical networking system from Lucent Technologies (NYSE:LU - news) will dramatically boost the capacity of local data networks and extend the reach of today's high-capacity fiber-optic systems. Lucent's new WaveStar(TM) OpticAir(TM) system will use state-of-the-art lasers, amplifiers and receivers that can be placed on rooftops or in office windows to transmit voice, data or video traffic from point to point through the air. Designed by Bell Labs, the WaveStar OpticAir system will use dense wave division multiplexing (DWDM) technology to increase network capacity in metropolitan areas and campus environments where cost, geography or other constraints may make fiber connections impractical. Global Crossing will be first to test the system -- conducting field trials by December. The first system to use DWDM technology directly through the air, Lucent's WaveStar OpticAir system eventually will enable business customers and service providers to transmit up to 10 gigabits (billion bits) per second (Gb/s) of information between locations. At this rate, customers will be able to transmit the data contained on 15 CD ROMs through the air in less than a second. That's 65 times more information than with today's radio frequencies. ..... biz.yahoo.com