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To: elmatador who wrote (5197)	9/13/1999 7:57:00 AM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 12823

elmatador, I think that it was UUNet's John Sidgemore who first made that observation about a year or so ago when the cockroach analogy first began to proliferate (pun intended). "Conclusion I don't expect the content to come from Video On Demand. I think it will come from the 'Silicon Coackroaches'. These enterprise applications and e-commerce will gobble all the bandwidth that we can throw at it." I've been wondering about this myself. I note that my daughters and some of their friends are getting an awful lot of music these days off the net. They tell me it's free...<?> Although, they too are now clamoring for higher speed lines. Who would have thought, four years ago, that a fifteen year old school girl would be lobbying for broadband Internet access? And so much for not needing 8GB hard drives. I just hope that they don't ask to to start backing this stuff up. That would cause me to have to go out and acquire a residential EMC archive complex and a fibre channel assembly from either ANCR or BRCD. Maybe I could form a cooperative in the neighborhood and have MFNX run some dark fiber to a common repository to help defray some of the unit costs? How does the MP3 model ply in this space, in your view? Regards, Frank Coluccio