Re: BIG Fibre-optic pipe: small building?

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Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 00:00

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In article <8c06ki$ddg$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
Matt Byrd <matt_byrd@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I was down-town recently (Bank & Cooper) and I watched some
contractors
> laying a fibre-optic line into a small 3 floor building on Cooper
> Street at the sotheast corner of Bank & Cooper. It looked like a
> fairly large strand, so any guesses of who could need a big fibre
> connection, my guess is with ADSL, xDSL, ATM it would have to be a
> very large pipe, otherwise why bother! My question is who needs that
> amount of bandwidth in a nothing little building?
>
Video-on-demand? From a post last fall NewForce Communications announced
they moved to 396 Cooper Street. A check of their website mentions all
sorts of streamed video services. This would require a huge amount of
bandwidth, an thus I could see the need for an OC-3 type of connection


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