Re: Video on demand --- info requested

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From: Jonathan Heiliger
Date: Sat, 07 Nov 1992 17:30

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In article <1992Nov5.141630.10937@walter.bellcore.com> 
jxr@thumper.bellcore.com (Jonathan Rosenberg) writes:

>best you can attain on those right now is about 14.4 kb/s, with a
>modem).  But there is a technology that is beginning to move out of the
>lab that can support T1 rates (1.544 Mb/s) to most residences over the
>existing copper plant.  This technology is known as ADSL (Asymmetric

   Actually a T1 line still runs over normal copper wire.  True, you usually 
need a hub & a hub adaptor for it; however it's still a normal phone wire.  
Or there is always 57.6Mb/sec lines which are just half of a T1.

-- 
Jonathan Heiliger ........ Electric Power Research Institute
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