RE: UKNM: Re: Mobile Commerce

[Jonathan Peterson]

> As far as I know network theory the maximum bandwidths that 

> can be obtained

> through different media; Optical, copper and Microwave. 

> Microwave wins hands

> down.  It can handle 10 times that of a large bundle of fiber 

> optical cable.


I don't know much about microwave but this would really surprise me if

it were true (not that 'large budle of fiber' is a well defined thing).

It is also the case as I understand it that microwave is line-of-site.


The problem with fibre is that you have to be attached to it - but a

single fibre pair carries something like 1.2 Terabits/second, which is

more than a microwave connection shurely? Certainly, the bundles of

fibre being laid by telco's around Europe at the moment carry something

in the order of hundreds - low thousands of terabits/second.


In any case, very-high bandwidth is now bottlenecked at the routing

device rather than the transport device, so it's all somewhat arbitrary.



> So the technology we have has to catch up with the science we 

> have had for a

> while.  The future of m-commerce is here the science is here 

> its just the

> details that need looking into.  Personally I can not wait to 


Theoretical science is always ahead of practical implementation. This

gap appears to be increasing, however.


> unlock myself

> from this desk and do some work in a park.


The problem with mobile working is not that our computers are tied to

the network, but that our workers are tied to their computers. Get a

pencil, get a printout, go to the park. It's easy!


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