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To: FJB who wrote (799)	11/6/1998 7:23:00 PM
From: George Gilder	Read Replies (6) \| Respond to of 5853

I really cannot tell you whether the technology is viable. Certainly the idea of sending 144 distinct TV channels at 93 gigabits per second is ridiculous--MPEG2.x from DirecTV was used and it would allow sending 144 channels at 350 MEGABITS per second. Blowing this up to 93 gigabits is itself a major feat of decompression. All that aside, Jim Palmer, the scientist behind Silk Road, has an absolutely fascinating theory, which seems valid to me and which may allow major advances in the future, but not--despite their claims to the contrary--at the expense of WDM. It is quite complementary with WDM, improving the speed on a single lambda and possibly facilitating add-drop, obviating Sonet.