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Foil 10 Possible Future Communications Technology
-- A PacBell Strategy

From InfoMall and NPAC's InfoVISION Initiative -- 1995 General Overview -- January 1,1995. by Geoffrey C. Fox * Critical Information in IMAGE
In California, Pacbell announced in November 93 that it will use ATM (optical fibre) as a trunk information line and then use (existing) cable to reach groups of 500 customers
ATM will support very high speeds measured in endless gigabits/sec., but actually traffic is a lot of little messages (as on our vehicle highways)
A Bandwidth of N gigabits will be ~ 100N messages at 10 megabits/sec.

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