Roger wrote:
> On 09/10/2013 12:34 AM, Russell Coker wrote:
>> http://tinyurl.com/mpo6vft
>>
>> ................snip, the Liberal
>> party has an even worse plan that will give little benefit over the current
>> situation ..............snip
>>
> On this subject, The corroded copper in seaside fore shore areas was
> unable to cope with demand 10 years ago and still struggles .
> LNP do not consider corroded infrastructure in their To the Node concept.
> ...........snip
As a user of the fibre- to-the-home when I lived in Brunswick,
I would have to say the way it was and still is sold, as ' super-speed
broadband',
is simultaneously:
1/ oversell: because data transfer rates were only 100Mb/s down , 20
Mb/s up;
which was only about 5 x the ADSL 2+, which I had had previously.
2/ undersell: because the real advantages of fibre over copper are not
specifically mentioned
- corrosion resistance, water resistance, spike-voltage
elimination, security........ just plain robustness !
- 'future proofed' unlimited data transfer rates; the numbers are
quite mind-boggling !
see for example
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiber-optic_communication#cite_note-11
"2012 NEC, Corning[11] 1.05 Petabit/s 12 core fiber 52.4
km";
Fibre will still be chugging along when all our CMOS micro-processors
are just a distant memory and
RAM and mass storage are feeding data via a fibre-bus to the Quantum
Topological Processor;
so fast that all programs execute virtually instantaneously, except for
the IO delays.
Certainly wireless bandwidth will increase as higher carrier frequency
technologies iterate up;
but I just can't see the 1 x 10^15 times current rates, which the
above figures imply;
ps shouldn't this thread be on luv-talk ?
regards Rohan
McLeod
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