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To: lml who wrote (7210)	6/6/2000 12:04:00 AM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Respond to of 12823

lml, a small number of fiber to the theatre, MT, attempts bombed out during the late Eighties, some of them staying in place when the original intent died out, to show the fights. Even that was before HBO took those over, too. In one instance, where one movie chain was to have dedicated fiber implemented, I recall that rights of way were not "available," causing them to resort to microwave shots, roll-up-on-demand-trucked-in-satellite-dishes, and local cable co deals, using coax. It never worked out the way they envisaged it in the past, because there simply were no fiber routes in place to pick off from. Today, it's still tough, but increasingly lambdas or whole fibers can be leased from cablecos, "some" telcos and CLECs, and of course, the MFNXs of the world, when their routes happen to go by where you need them. FAC ps - one of the original national-scope video on demand schemes -in this case AT&T's proposition- also conceived in the Eighties, used the newly available intercity fiber routes to send VoD videos cross-country, like the audio you posted suggested. Only, these were designed to transport between city pairs over pre-SONET asynchronous T3, 90 Mb/s and 565Mb/s pipes which were switched under DACS control, and served by DEC-servers (VAX minicomputers) and various other vendor-governed hierarchical storage systems that were being piloted. The idea didn't exactly die, it just went to sleep for thirteen years. There may be hope for Teledesic, yet. Did I say VAX? Wow, haven't used that term in years. The one company that did make a good go of it was Vyvvx, the Williams company that targeted the large TV Networks. They put in place a fiber backbone that transported program services on an intercity basis for NBC, CBS, ABC, etc. for their national distribution needs, competing with AT&T's and MCI's microwave networks.