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To: zbyslaw owczarczyk who wrote (17344)	1/28/2001 8:31:44 PM
From: pat mudge	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24042

That's an excellent article. Although service providers implemented these technologies in large part to delay the need to deploy fiber, they are having somewhat the opposite effect. People who have tasted high-speed access aren't hesitating to dive into bandwidth-hogging applications such as video and audio streaming. As a result, what's enough bandwidth today on the access backbone and the access link itself may not be enough for long. "Big service providers are starting to look at what the minimum competitive bandwidth they are going to need five to 10 years from now," says Jim Holley, senior vice president of marketing for NEC Eluminant. "As soon as new, higher-bandwidth services are out there, the bandwidth requirement is going to go up pretty quickly." Forget terabits, some folks are talking petabits. Pat