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To: Vladimir Zelener who wrote (26049)	12/5/1997 5:01:00 AM
From: Sector Investor	Respond to of 61433

<<The bandwidth achieved on LAN (1 gig) will not be matched ever (20 years at least) by the Internet. So Internet can not replace LAN.>> The LAN space is nowhere near 1GB now. Most LANs are still running 10MB Ethernet or 16MB Token Ring, with routers and bridges. 100MB FE is just now being deployed routinely, and switch technology and topology is only recently replacing routers. GE is still rare. ATM is mostly at OC-3. OC-48 ATM is 2.4GB and ASND is one of the first to offer it NOW. OC-192 and fiber optics will be next. Twenty years? Think where the internet was SEVEN YEARS AGO. Think where LANs were seven years ago. Seven years ago only a few large companies even had LANs - and then mainly only to share printers. This locomotive is unstoppable. You will see pervasive > 1GB bandwidth at the core within 7 years, IMO, and >1MB to many homes as well. You will have voice, video and movies off the net or it's variants.