Trefor wrote:
> >Besides, ISDN is a dead technology. The issue of bandwidth will
> >soon be a thing of the past.
> Could you expand on this, why will bandwith problems become a thing of the
> past?
>
> My understanding is that the modem technology is nearing the limit of the
> bandwith of the ordinary phone lines and the only way to get more data sent
> is to widen the bandwith? Have I missed something in the physics classes all
> them years ago!
Any day now (allegedly) we'll all have fibre-optic cable into our
homes/offices/practices and cable modems which give more bandwidth than
you can shake a stick at. More than you can ever possibly imagine being
able to use. No-one could ever need more than 640kB of memory in a PC.
Oops! Sorry! I slipped back fifteen years, there.
Much as nature abhors a vacuum, so (poorly designed) software abhors
unused hardware capacity. I predict that within a year of bandwidth being
a "thing of the past" many "cool" web sites will have large 24-bit colour
movie images on the top level page using up more bandwidth than you can
shake a stick at!
Martin
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