Bandwidth's Vital Role

25 March 2002


In the financial community today, there is much talk about fiber glut, bandwidth glut and some other equally ill-defined and poorly understood terms. Imagine when each of these weblogs – as well as BigMediaCo’s – contains links to full motion video. Demand for bandwidth may well have been deferred by the burst of the dot.com bubble, but to think it is permanently diminished is to overlook a host of future needs.

Dane links us to this.
Bell Labs sets distance record for optical transmissions. 2.56Tbps over 4,000km [The Register]

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