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To: deeno who wrote (2959)	10/26/1998 2:12:00 PM
From: ahhaha	Respond to of 29970

No. The air is a hostile environment.

To: deeno who wrote (2959)	10/26/1998 6:49:00 PM
From: JayPC	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29970

If you don't mind me expanding a little.... From Nicholas Negroponte's Being Digital... to paraphrase Using air has many difficulties. Signals can interfere with eachother very easily, so you have to use "exclusive predetermined parts of the spectrum". You can increase the capacity and effectiveness of air, by "reusing parts of the spectrum" or rather parts of that spectrum that were avoided by other signals. However compared to fiber (and the "infinite" bandwidth possibilities we haven't fully explored) air is a very scarce medium. And you can always lay more fiber. Pg 24 In fact, The Negroponte Switch, as it is known, states the exact opposite of your question, for the reasons above. The best explanation i've seen on the subject. I highly reccomend the book (though published in 1995) many of its postulations have been seen already... and I am sure we will se many more. Regards Jay PS. above information was for academic and informational purposes only.