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Re: MFS WorldCom/WilTel/LDDS


From: Vadim Antonov <avg () quake net>
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 13:40:34 -0700

Perry E. Metzger <perry () piermont com> wrote:

Raw bandwidth is inherently cheap. Undersea lines are even fairly
cheap, except nasty government price fixing keeps them
expensive. Switching equipment is expensive right now but Moore's Law
takes care of that over the years.

Excuse me, but bandwidth demand doubles in about half year,
while Moore's law is that semiconductor capacity doubles every
2 years.  There's no indication that this will change any time
soon.

Nice brick wall :)

--vadim
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