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Foil 5 Possible Technology Directions for the installation of the NII

From NASA/MADIC NII Requirements for ASOP NASA/MADIC Workshop on NII Requirements for ASOP -- May 22-23 1995 Arlington TX. by Geoffrey C. Fox * See also color IMAGE
One must provide real time video to some 100 million NII off ramps and there are many choices such as:
Optical Fibre Trunk System (ATM)
  • This seems Certain
Satellites for Trunk System
Local Cable Delivery (Optical --> Cable Switch) - several megabits/sec
  • Certain in populated areas
ISDN (0.1 megabits/sec) down twisted pair
ADLS (several megabits/sec) down twisted pair
Full Optical Fibre Link
Mobile Computing
Northeast Parallel Architectures Center, Syracuse University, npac@npac.syr.edu

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