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On Wed, 13 Nov 1996, Jacob Suter wrote:
> So, while the telcos beat their heads into the wall trying to figure
> out some way of getting their cooshie monopolies back, I was
> thinking...
>
> Fiber, 100 megabit into homes, mbone, etc etc. Cable company sucks,
> pots quality sucks, (power sucks but I don't want to put a nuclear
> generator in - its kinda expensive).. What if I put fiber on the
> poles, and dropped into people's homes at say, 100 megabit duplex
> ethernet? Then microwave myself back to the real world to connect to
> the net...
>
> I have no idea what kind of bandwidth I'd be talking for say DSS
> quality A/V by itself for one channel... It'd need to have a few
> channels all broadcasting at once and I have no idea what kind of
> bandwidth that is going to take..
>
> "Yes, I'd like to watch that movie in 1024x768x16.8M.."
>
> JS
>
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