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To: Scumbria who wrote (133494)	4/27/2001 8:40:03 PM
From: fyodor_	Respond to of 186894

Scumbria, re: the best technology to solve the Internet bandwidth problems&#133 If you find out, please let me know. You and me both! Of course, if everyone knows, there probably isn't going to be much of a buying opportunity. There seem to be a couple of "always promising" technologies (they surface as regularly as the AMD / Dell rumors): Point-to-point laser: Basically, this would replace current optical fibre, alleviating the need for digging a trench to each and every installation point (which is clearly the expensive part, since the fibre is virtually free these days). This would solve the "last mile" bandwidth / latency problem. Internet over power lines: Basically something similar to xDSL, although noise prevents use of the standard couple hundred MHz frequencies used by xDSL. I'm not sure if this is meant as a solution for the "last mile" or as a general bandwidth solver. Both solutions seem to come with a plethora of problems and have now (re)surfaced so many times that I haven't the slightest bit of faith that they'll ever amount to anything of value. Atm, xDSL seems to be the best solution for the "last mile" bandwidth issue, but with telephone centrals servicing too many xDSL clients compared to the bandwidth they have available (using normal fibre or copper connections, typically in the T2 - T3 range) the overall problem is far from solved. My understanding of current optical fibre technology is that the problem is with the transmission and reception equipment, and not with the wave guide itself. -fyo