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Maybe there is a better way to do it!!!
The city of Wellington, capitol of New Zealand, has recently
installed an enormous local area network that covers the entire
city of 166,000 people. Rather than increase network capacity
within the city using more traditional (and expensive) wide area
networking technologies such as T1s, DS3s, etc. and the expensive
and proprietary hardware they require at both ends of the circuit
(like CSU/DSUs), the city's IT management decided to just take
advantage of the fact that fiber based gigabit ethernet, or
1000BaseT-SX, works with much greater cable lengths than older
copper based ethernet technologies and is therefore viable to use
as a backbone within a metropolitan area. This means that the
city was able to build a high speed data network with only the
costs of 1000BaseT-SX cabling, laying of said cables, and a few
low cost ethernet switches located at each building where
connectivity to this network is available. Then, businesses and
residences can get 10 or 100 megabit ethernet connections to the
city's backbone by simply plugging an ethernet cable into the
switch and connecting that to their own respective LANs. Really
neat stuff, I wish they'd do this in my neighborhood. Here's an
article with more details:
http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2841197,00.html
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* wa3dsp@wa3dsp.ampr.org *
* http://www.crompton.com *
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