RE: PBXs

["Matthew Keay" <m@xxxxxxx>]

I think you're all also forgetting show off factor of having fibre @home :)

I guess it'd make sense as Calum says (if you're planning on staying) to
run
fibre where you think you'll need it and maybe not terminate it?
<shrugs>


Matthew (with gigabit lan :P lol).
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Calum Morrell [mailto:calum@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 31 December 2001 00:20
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] PBXs
>
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> You beat me to it P G .. I was going to mention HDTV to James. Can I
> also point out that a gigabit really isn't that much, especially if
you
> consider it's use in 3 or 4 years time [which as I already mentioned,
I
> am talking about future proofing here]. It's only a few years since
> 10mbps was fine ... now I struggle to get by on 100mbps.
>
> And yes, I was refering to cat5e .. I haven't used anything else for a
> few years, so I just slip into the bad habit of calling it cat5.
>
> Everyone keeps pointing out how much easier and cheaper it is to run
> cables while building or renovating a house, so surely fibre has to be
> at least a consideration if you plan to live there for a few years? I
> wouldn't plan a house without it yet, and I already conceeded that I
> would still run cat5 [ok, cat5e then] for some current apps.
>
>
> Calum
>
> P G wrote:
>
> >I believe full-bandwidth, uncompressed HD video runs at about
> 1.5 gigabits
> >per second! I still remember building a ZX80 with a huge 1/2 Kb
> memory (I
> >think - but I was ony 10 at the time!).
> >
> >You can never have enough bandwidth!
> >
> >
> >>From: "James Hoye" <james.hoye@xxxxxxx>
> >>Reply-To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> >>To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
> >>Subject: Re: [ukha_d] PBXs
> >>Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2001 22:43:39 -0000
> >>
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