Any network built by an idiot is garbage, no matter what technology they use.
----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matt Hoppes" <mattli...@rivervalleyinternet.net> To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" <af@af.afmug.com>, "Ken Hohhof" <af...@kwisp.com> Sent: Monday, January 20, 2020 2:37:08 AM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] The Future Well... except that I'd argue fiber isn't that "future proof". I purchased an ISP that came with an outdoor fiber network. That outdoor network was MM with repeaters ever few blocks, because well MM. That entire network is useless..... so....... I submit that as Exhibit A, your honor. On 1/19/20 10:31 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote: > I think that is the right answer, but the government seems to have fallen out > of love with fiber and is smitten with mobile wireless, which in their future > will replace everything. > > The right answer may not prevail, in the face of power and money. > > Once upon a time we focused on 20 and 30 year infrastructure solutions. Look > at how easily you can upgrade a fiber network. Then look at what it took to > go from 2G to 3G to 4G to 5G, and imagine having to do that for 20-30 more > years, through 6G and 7G and 8G and beyond. Where all that spectrum will come > from, who knows. No similar problem exists with fiber. > > The ironic thing is that the biggest stumbling block to rural millimeter wave > based 5G would be running fiber to all those towers. If you're going to run > fiber to everybody's personal cell tower (because the houses are half a mile > apart), why not just run the fiber to their house. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Adam Moffett > Sent: Sunday, January 19, 2020 8:35 PM > To: af@af.afmug.com > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] The Future > > 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. > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > > -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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