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To: Pink Minion who wrote (48272)	6/21/2001 9:42:22 AM
From: Sun Tzu	Respond to of 70976

The more I think about it, the more I want to buy some fiber. But not of the variety discussed here. JDSU is still too expensive for my liking. ST

To: Pink Minion who wrote (48272)	6/21/2001 6:05:49 PM
From: Kirk ©	Respond to of 70976

I doubt Fiber can ever deliver what is considered "essential services" such as sewer, water, Nat Gas and phone lines. It DOES deliver what is high priced yuppie stuff... I would think DSL and Cable has plenty of BW if they can just get enough routers, etc. to deliver content fast enough. People forget that to get streaming video on demand requires a DVD player at the other end.... Much easier to down load the DVD over DSL with a finite "lifetime" to view so you then store it locally and watch when you want as many times as you want. The fun of DVDs to me is all the extra stuff they have and stopping through it... I just can't see why anyone would want to do all this control stuff over a $1600 fiber connection to the telephone pole should the fiber feed even be available. I read that WCOM has enough fiber capacity to last until 2008... Cost matters... anyone seen "Bluetooth?" THAT was supposed to be a big deal but I remember when we did IRDA (wireless IR to transfer data) and we figured bluetooth was far too expensive at maybe $25 a connection while IRDA would only be $10...and much of that is software/license. Now wireless for the last mile... I see great hope there when I had access to R&D labs...