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To: Webster Groves who wrote (31)	11/11/1998 1:12:00 AM
From: ahhaha	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 626

What pieces don't connect? From the company's news release of 11/3/98: The new technology, called SilkRoad Refractive Synchronization Communication (SRSC®), has been proven to convey as much as 200 gigabits (10^9) per second of information through a fiber optic cable and has the potential to transmit at 10 terabits (10^12) per second, the capacity limit of the fiber cable itself. SilkRoad President and Chief Executive Officer, Kevin C. Doria, today unveiled the technology to business executives, analysts and the media in New York City. In a dramatic demonstration, 840 channels of satellite programming were transmitted 100 kilometers over a fiber optic cable at 93 gigabits per second using only a single laser. Current technologies, such as Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM), are able to transmit information at a rate of as much as 40 gigabits per second, but do so through a complex process using multiple wavelengths that requires many expensive lasers and other equipment to generate the signals and keep them stable over long distances. The commercial application of such technologies has been questioned due to the inherent costs associated with procuring and operating such expensive infrastructure equipment.