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Microcap & Penny Stocks : TSIS: WHAT IS GOING ON? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Thomas M. Carroll who wrote (3131)	7/16/1998 8:48:00 AM
From: John S. Baker	Respond to of 6931

OFF TRACK. You are correct. Even the long distance voice paradigm has changed -- from one which values the number of switches a long distance company has to one which values the bandwidth it has. In the old days (ie right now) the simplified model for connecting a phone call is that one dedicated line (albeit narrow band) leads from my house to the company's switch and another dedicated line leads from the switch across the country to the house/office of whomever I am calling. Every microsecond of dead air time is a microsecond wasted, as the lines are connected even though no useful info is passing. However, if the conversation can be chopped up into small chunks of conversation ... which they conveniently call packets ... those packets can be routed over any line which happens to be packetless at the moment, and then reassembled into recognizable format at the recipient's location. Sounds sorta like sending data over the Internet, doesn't it. There is a mind-boggling amount of info available, for instance, on the QWST thread here -- technical info I am not able to fully appreciate, I fear. But the times they are a-changing. JSb.