"Calif Bill" wrote in message
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Actually he was intemperate, but correct. The Digital age is overwhelming
the infrastructure. Especially since they are proposing all the extra TV,
etc over the telephone circuits. The old phone systems allowed a lot of
calls, as the communication was voice and you had TDM so lots of calls
over the same line. An aside, girl I lusted after in junior high and
early years of HS, her father was one of the inventors to TDM. Now, you
have to send lots of packets over a 4400khz line. Phase detection methods
allow you to send more data than an actual 4400 khz line will normally
allow. But the backbone of the system is still the old copper wire and
switches. You fail to realize that the digital age is in its infancy time
wise.



Exactly right ... it is in it's infancy and the transition will take time.
Trying to utilize an infrastructure designed for simpler, but limited analog
communications is what is overwhelming the system. Copper wires will slowly
be replaced with glass and plastic fiberoptics that will be more reliable,
quieter and have an expodential increase in bandwidth capacity. We are
witnessing the dawn of the digital/optical communications age.

Eisboch