MFS WorldCom/WilTel/LDDS

Thu Aug 29 20:40:34 UTC 1996

Perry E. Metzger <perry at 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