Thanks to the link of that book Rogue, it looks interesting (I'll try and read it between hunts
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I'm always amazed at the quality of people on this forum. I am no expert on the physical structure of the web and yet have learned alot from reading the responses put on this thread. Thankyou to all who have contributed.
I guess optic fibre will be the next big thing as it eventually gets distributed out to homes. But then maybe that will be overtaken by wireless which has a much lower investment the physically running the optic fibre cables all over the place.
The biggest thing slowing down the optic fibre roll out is that no company wants to invest billions doing it only to find that by the time they are finished their technology has been superseeded.