theneedforspeed
@verizon.com
| reply to firewire9999
Re: That would cool if it works
Firewire - that is a fair question. In a general mathematical sense it's related in a way. The fact that all transmissions signal (rf, microwave, optics, etc) will degrade over distance. Copper uses RF to transmit data and can be extended by repeater, very costly to maintain.
VZ FIOS (last mile) is all optics, a wavelength (lambda)is assigned to each service offering (video, data, voice). Potentially FIOS can push through put speed of over 600MB/s and up to 1000MB/s (GigE)or even higher. This is depending on the transmitting equipment of course. Service speeds of 5MB, 10MB, 30MB, 50MB, 20/20 MB/s is just the starting point. Of course this means Billions of dollars are need to upgrade the Backbone infrastructures. Doesn’t make sense to give the end user a Ferrari with no road to drive on. Cable is still working DOCS 3.0, so we'll see. Fiber is the future, Coring has already invented fiber that can be bent 360 degrees that can still transmit data. »www.corning.com/opticalfiber/med···902.aspx. This future is here ... content and application developers need to catch up. |
