On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 15:23:17 -0600, Justin Findlay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 09:12:36AM -0600, Grant Robinson wrote:
Umm...Did you read the article? 300 Mbps does _not_ outperform fiber. Fiber is already well past this. Fiber carries light, so it is much more adaptable than most technologies, which makes it a great fit, as it will be able to carry more data in the future as technology advances.
I heard once that a single fiber strand could sustain <quote, confidence_level="ridiculously unqualified">100 Gbps</quote> and beyond, the only limitation being the sending and receiving logic at either end.
Another thing to consider is that fiber uses light for transmission and with light beams you can use different colors to store meaningful information. The theoretical limit of how much information can be stored in a rapidly changing beam of light is amazingly high. FYI, Lucent developed an all-optical Internet router few years ago to handle the very problem of the bottleneck at the receiving end (http://www.bell-labs.com/news/2000/june/5/3.html). Supposedly it used only mirrors and crystals and stuff like that so there was no loss in throughput.
My goodness, I'll bet it was the size of a house! Dr. Selfridge once showed me his all optical transistor...it could fit on your desktop.
Bryan
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