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Technology Stocks : Ciena (CIEN) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: George Dawson who wrote (1053)	12/6/1997 10:46:00 AM
From: Cytokine1	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12623

I agree. I would love to upgrade my lowly Pentium 120 to a new 266 model, but as far as internet cruzin', where I am personally affected by the bandwidth problem, I think the bottleneck is in my modem (28.8), the servers, and sometimes the backbone. The term "World Wide Wait" still applies. ISDN would be better, xDSL much better, cable modem super, etc. All kind of expensive, not readily available or not the complete solution (does nothing about overloaded servers and backbones). But companies like Ciena and Qwest (QWST) look like the beneficiaries of the bandwidth "gold rush". Another impression: seems like over the last few years the electronics industry has made huge, almost revolutionary strides in SPEED!! Years ago, we knew about ISDN local loop service at 128kb on a single twisted copper pair. Now ADSL (Asymmetrical Digital Subscriber Line) provides downstream bandwith of 1.5 Mb/s, more than TEN TIMES as fast as ISDN over the same piece of twisted copper. Amazing. Now if I could figure out a way to free up some $$ to put into these companies........;> Martin