That's pretty funny considering your talking about Chomsky. He talks about this all the time in his political writings. You might want to go check them out. If you do check them out, remember to take the red pill...
These systems reduces the optical to electrical to optical conversion points along these fibers. This is what saves the carriers a lot of money.
Additionally, these are both time, and wave division systems. This basically means it's like transmitting am and fm stations over the wire. (Turns 1 wire into 160).
They also allow routing of the aforementioned stations (lambdas) so that you can dynamically set
up circuits with a click of a mouse.
Just this week, I saw that the big news pages are going to start charging for video clips, and the like. The reasoning is that bandwidth costs too much for this kind of service on the web.
What I find interesting is that the optical sector has a ton of equipment which could/should reduce the cost of bandwidth by a tremendous amount, but nobody seems to be buying it.
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That's pretty funny considering your talking about Chomsky. He talks about this all the time in his
political writings. You might want to go check them out. If you do check them out, remember to take the red pill...
These systems work over the existing fiber.
These systems reduces the optical to electrical to optical conversion points along these fibers. This
is what saves the carriers a lot of money.
Additionally, these are both time, and wave division
systems. This basically means it's like transmitting am and fm stations over the wire. (Turns 1 wire into
160).
They also allow routing of the aforementioned stations (lambdas) so that you can dynamically set
up circuits with a click of a mouse.
Just this week, I saw that the big news pages are going to start charging for video clips, and the like. The reasoning is that bandwidth costs too much for this kind of service on the web.
What I find interesting is that the optical sector has a ton of equipment which could/should reduce the cost of bandwidth by a tremendous amount, but nobody seems to be buying it.
I can confirm that a second plane was reported on the local DC television stations, and it was described as detailed above.