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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (118)	11/21/1998 5:46:00 PM
From: ahhaha	Respond to of 626

That 4K Ter carries 500k full motion video channels. That's plenty unless you are talking interactive video. The maximal design must take as a limit the maximum load. That's number of sites times the expected average video load. You need dedicated signals since caching-like strategies are superfluous where in downstream it enables redundancy. Then you need 500k video signals in the metro array assuming a closed topology because at some point in the topology there has to be full aggregation, the backbone. WDN necessitates full aggregation up to the topology because there is a NAP density limit. There is no such limit in SR. One way around this is management techniques that cut the local backbone load by shunting a signal directly to its target address without boarding the backbone. That would probably require an SGI supercomputer at each NAP. It is getting complicated. If we're talking ATT's video phone around the world, 4k Ter is insufficient. SR or an equivalent must be employed. No way around it.