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To: j3pflynn who wrote (238938)	8/16/2007 5:41:25 PM
From: pgerassi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Dear JP and Joe: Who are your salesmen? Currently the best cable can do is about 150Mbps, if you used all of it (no retail modem does that well). The only way to get 3-8Gbps is fiber to the home. OC12 is 622Mbps, OC48 is 2.4Gbps and OC192 is 9.6Gbps. Those are quite expensive with OC48 going for $60K/mo. Of course that is 2.4Gbps both up and down. Heck I would be happy with OC3 at 155Mbps, if I could get it at $30-50/mo. That still would be able to carry 7 simultaneous 19.2Mbps HDTV signals and still have plenty of BW to surf. infobahn.com Full 155 mbps $5,890. Direct Tier 1 Connection. Full Nationwide SLAs. intelletrace.com Personally, I think all phone companies should be required to put fiber to the home/apt/business to get access to the video market (AT&T's U-Verse). Fiber doesn't have the degradation that copper does and doesn't carry lightning strikes to internal equipment. And it is much more future proof as the capacity can be expanded greatly using WDM (some grandma is running 75Tbps IIRC). All data, voice and video services should be common carrier (Net Neutral). The super wide fiber "dumb pipe" would guarantee the low latency for streaming data (plenty of idle TCP/IP capacity has that as a highly desirable artifact). It would also help gamers with low ping times. Pete