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From: arnief%tekgvs.labs.tek.com@RELAY.CS.NET (Arnie Frisch)
Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds
Subject: Re: telecommunications
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Date: 4 Mar 90 00:39:49 GMT
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In article <2204@milton.acs.washington.edu> brandonl%amadeus.wr.tek.com@RELAY.CS.NET (Brandon Lovested) writes:
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>The problem of bandwidth will be partially alleviated when high
>speed communications links like ISDN, and better yet, FDDI will
>be adopted.  The speed (>1 Gigahertz) and bandwidth of these links
>could possibly allow massive VR communication environments.
>
FDDI is a 100 to 125 megabit per second link, i.e., it's not quite as
fast as a typical 32 bit computer bus.

ISDN is hierarchical; I don't believe the top level is 1 giga-bit per
second yet, though SONNET may be so envisioned.

Arnold Frisch
Tektronix Laboratories