a577@mindlink.UUCP (Curt Sampson) (04/07/90)
> myers@hpfcdj.HP.COM writes: > > Optical fiber systems potentially could alleviate these problems, but they're > not really practical yet, either. Really? Better tell that to Rogers Cable. The main distribution lines in Vancouver are almost all fibre-optic now. (They did most of the installation last winter.) We don't have it into homes yet, but I would guess that that's just a matter of replacing the neighbourhood feed from the trunk line. Of course, Canada has always been a few years ahead of the States in cable communications technology. <Grin.> -cjs ( Curt_Sampson@mindlink.UUCP )