Re: Interesting question

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From: Dan Brickley (Daniel.Brickley@bristol.ac.uk)
Date: Fri Jun 30 2000 - 15:37:37 PDT

On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, Gregory Alan Bolcer wrote:

[...]
> of the house. It's partitioning up the gigabit into segmented
> little channels so that your microwave, tv, blender, coffee machine,
> and fridge each have their own little personal broadcast and messaging channel that
> only they're interested in such that they think the world revolves around
> them and makes them feel self-important when their light blinkenlights
> go on an off.

mmm... yeah... but you don't quite need gigabit networking to gives
fridges (well, fridge doors) their own distributed web-based messaging
system. eg http://tribble.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/~cmjg/fridge.html (jan's fridge door)

--danbri

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> Greg
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> Jeff Bone wrote:
> >
> > Somebody asked me a really interesting question yesterday. What can you
> > do with a gigabit to the home? In particular, what are the killer apps
> > enabled by 3 orders of magnitude greater bandwidth than DSL?
> >
> > Thoughts appreciated,
> >
> > jb
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