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To: Boplicity who wrote (85365)	12/16/1998 7:16:00 PM
From: K. M. Strickler	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176387

GM, OT >>With the advent of spectrum splitting of optical signals through one fiber (you can think up it as freq. division multiplexing that is used in cable that comes it our homes) we will have plenty of bandwidth to go around. << Well - sort of! There is plenty of bandwidth if you are selecting say 1 of 300 channels to watch, but that is all in a 'listening' mode, if you will. When we are talking about bi-directional flow, of totally different information, to hundreds of subscribers tied to a single 'cable', even with the spectrum splitting, as the speeds approach 1.5M (Compaq has that modem inside their machines now), IMHO, there will be congestion. It is interesting to listen to the talk about transferring the complete Library of Congress or whatever in less than 2 seconds, if you look at the amount of traffic on the net, and with increases coming every day, the relief that we get will be nothing more then a 'rest' while the load upshifts. Already, with the delivery of e-mail containing lots of pictures, reported waits of 45 minutes for e-mail download is beginning to show up. How about this, I want to show you a TV show that you can't get, so I link up my All-in-Wonder card, and start showing you live TV over the net, for hours. Now on 'my cable', let's say there are 50 others that want to ship 'live' video data. We are talking about a 'load' now, even for spectrum splitting. JMHO, what do you think? Regards, Ken