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"Calif Bill" wrote in message ... Actually he was intemperate, but correct. The Digital age is overwhelming the infrastructure. Especially since they are proposing all the extra TV, etc over the telephone circuits. The old phone systems allowed a lot of calls, as the communication was voice and you had TDM so lots of calls over the same line. An aside, girl I lusted after in junior high and early years of HS, her father was one of the inventors to TDM. Now, you have to send lots of packets over a 4400khz line. Phase detection methods allow you to send more data than an actual 4400 khz line will normally allow. But the backbone of the system is still the old copper wire and switches. You fail to realize that the digital age is in its infancy time wise. Exactly right ... it is in it's infancy and the transition will take time. Trying to utilize an infrastructure designed for simpler, but limited analog communications is what is overwhelming the system. Copper wires will slowly be replaced with glass and plastic fiberoptics that will be more reliable, quieter and have an expodential increase in bandwidth capacity. We are witnessing the dawn of the digital/optical communications age. Eisboch |
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