Anonymous wrote:
Inter@ctive WeekOctober 10, 1997
Nortel Unveils 1-Megabit Phone Line Ethernet
etc etc...
The 1-Meg will deliver 1-megabit-per-second speeds downstream into homes or businesses and 120-kilobit-per-second speeds in the other direction
This is too slow upstream for future technology needs. I'll admit that the upstream is almost as fast as a 2B+D ISDN setup, but research that I've done suggest that 384kb is necessary for VHS quality realtime video. So Nortel will deliver enough downstream bandwith for you to be a video consumer, but not a provider. How typical. I'll wait for xDSL, thank you. Jim Burnes -- "How do you explain school to higher intelligence?" Elliot to his brother in ET