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Wednesday 14 January 2009, 2:33 PM
BCS: Fibre could last us 'a century'
"Optical fibre deployment needs to take place," Evans said. "Fibre speeds will go up and up. It is conceivable that optical fibre put in today could be used into the next century."
Evans did concede that he didn't know what the "killer app" to justify this investment would be, but then again we never know until we see or invent such things.
"Fibre deployment will be akin to the railways, but I don't know what it will be used for," he said. "That's where the wheels fall off the business case."
How true. Still - hundred-year-old fibre still doing the business? Who knows? Perhaps we might then get round to rolling out WiMax...
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Surely on demand HD Video is the killer app, you only need to look at the success of services such as iPlayer to see that there is a market there clamouring for better qualilty video. In fact isn't that the most requested feature for iPlayer?
The killer app is video games in the cloud or via graphical server farms, allowing limitless graphical capabilities. Multiplayer 3D Rendering/lighting of games takes place in the cloud. HD Video of the rendered scene is relayed back to the player to the player via Fibre. It allows the consoles to be made much more cheaply, (removes most piracy, and introduces subscription) as processing takes place over the network rather than needing more and more powerful processors in the console. Maybe this will be a combination of the two. Adventure games in theory can be limitless in their locations.
This links in well with the new AMD Graphics processing farm recently unveiled, I'm sure Google won't be far behind.
Fibre roll out nationally is definitely a MUST, for the future of Great Britain, lets not rely on BT to get it, otherwise it will never happen, and don't listen to their sob stories about not being able to make money from it.
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