Hi Gerry!
18 Oct 97 09:34, Gerry Danen (111:1403/2) wrote to Bernhard Kuemel:
 GD> Why do you need the fibre?
 GD> 100MB ethernet is quite common now...
Well, with fibres you can transmit much faster than with electric wires. I 
thought maybe with a simple fibre network one could exceed the rates of 
ethernet. But while I think about it, some 100 MHz is about the maximum 
frequency todays electric circuits work with. So to get faster the process 
has to be parallelized like using multiple frequencies in the fibre which 
would require something like prisms and filters in the fibre connectors and 
would make the stuff too expensive for simple applications. And then, 100 
Mbps is already as fast as todays hard disks. I only had the feeling of my 10 
Mbps ethernet.
 GD> Gerry Danen (gdanen@accessweb.com) C+Net BBS @ 403-477-9545
Ciao, Bernhard!
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