On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 10:21:55AM -0600, Andrew Jorgensen wrote:
Another important thing to remember when talking about a fiber infrastructure as a utility is that it's not about your Mom, it's about your Mom's flower shop. I want fiber in my home of course, and it will come, but the home isn't really the point as much as businesses are. A network infrastructure is essential to almost any business today.
I don't know how many of you are following this, but it looks like private industry has already created a technology that outperforms fiber and is deployable at a fraction of the cost of laying cable everywhere:
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040727/cgtu014_1.html
By the time the city of Provo is done with their debacle...
...maybe this OFDM stuff will have been formally introduced to the IEEE standards bodies by Motorola and assigned the number 802.17q. After another couple years of "talks" in the standards bodies you might see it in commercial products.
Bryan
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