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To: Alfred W. Post who wrote (1061)11/6/2000 10:38:17 AM
From: mact  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 2260
 
hi fred, fiber has advantages with respect to capacity...using dwdm, co's like lucent can split the lambda to 100 channels...but co's like avnx say they can split it to 1000 channels....each channel can carry 10Gbps but soon this will increase to 40...wireless using radio frequencies can do 640Mbps...wireless optics can do 1 Gbps...but the beauty of wireless optics is that it can solve last mile prob's at 1/10th the cost as underground fiber...co's like optical access(just filed S1 recently), terabeam and airfiber battling in this sector...with respect to glw, i do not believe they have wireless optical products...lucent has big stake in terabeam, nortel airfiber...perhaps glw should take a look at optical access, a wholly owned subsidiary of mrvc?

mact



To: Alfred W. Post who wrote (1061)11/10/2000 11:35:35 PM
From: jack bittner  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 2260
 
i don't believe you can get the bandwidth on wireless that you can on fibre. on wireless, you give up the reams of data for the mobility. sometimes you want the greater info and reliability from fiber, sometimes you want to, or have to, move around with wireless. the 2 technologies are complementary, not competitive.


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