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To: Alan Aronoff who wrote (593)	5/14/1998 2:36:00 PM
From: Neil S	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 4808

Alan, That is interesting, i haven't seen that kind of distance referenced for GbE prior. Sounds like some combination of GbE and Fast Ethernet, would like to have it in my residence <g> Wasn't Kobe/NTT/Ancor toying around with a FC based MAN at one time? I seem to recall that Kobe was a campus wide implementation with talk about connecting via ATM to other locations. Also remeber the S.O. talk about a MAN in Hollywood for a post production FC network to be connected via dark fiber. Ah the good old days when a rumor was a rumor... and lawyers were only a disapointment away. Neil

To: Alan Aronoff who wrote (593)	5/16/1998 1:20:00 PM
From: George Dawson	Respond to of 4808

Alan, I agree with your impression that this Residential internet access is "pretty darn zippy" - but I wonder who the residents are. Radiologists? Automotive or aircraft engineers? Geoseismologists? Or just very impatient internet surfers? I looked all over the Bay Networks www site looking for more information on their GE switch and the technical details of how it works at 22 kilometers - no luck. I don't think there is any possible way that the residents could currently saturate this link - even if they are all piping in HDTV at the same time, but it would be an interesting experiment. I posted a few other thoughts on the ATM vs GE board: Message 4483719 I think the discrepancy between the GE link and the 100Mbit connections is from the configuration of a typical GE switch - a small number of GE ports scaling down to a large number of fast ethernet ports. It is the FC switch configuration that Craig would like to see. I think the basic reason is that it is an ideal and ready made backbone architecture - it will just plug in to existing ethernet LANS. I think it also has some interesting implications for how you connect from home to an ISP. George D.