Right now on fiber we're blinking the light on and off like the people a
hundred years ago sending morse code by blinking a radio on and off.
Right now you can run 9600 gbps with commercial off the shelf hardware,
blinking 96 different colored lights. Some day you'll have one set of
optics running all those wavelengths at the same time and modulating
them all. Then that one fiber will carry tens of thousands of gigabits
per second.
I don't know if that's "future proof" enough for the long haul, but it
ought to be good enough for the next 30 years I should think.
-Adam
On 1/19/2020 9:29 PM, Matt Hoppes wrote:
I don’t know why, but this evening got me thinking about broadband delivery
over the past 30 years and the future of broadband.
First we had nothing, then along came dial-up and that was amazing and many
companies sprung up offering the service. Giants like AOL and Prodigy.
Then DSL and Cable came along as well as wireless and dial-up has all but died.
Now DSL is basically dead, cable and wireless have gone through several
iterations and we are seeing a push to fiber.
What’s the possibility in the next 10 years cable and wireless will be dead
technologies with fiber at the fore front? Possibly.
But then..... is fiber really future proof? We are talking about investing
hundreds of millions into fiber infrastructure, because it’s “the future”. But
is it?
So far every technology delivery mechanism to date has become obsolete in as
little as 6-10 years.
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