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Moore's law is an observation, whereas Shannon's law is basic physics. Shannon's law dictates the maximum bandwidth over a physical communication link. Teleph
by hardtke 15y ago
Moore's law is an observation, whereas Shannon's law is basic physics. Shannon's law dictates the maximum bandwidth over a physical communication link. Telephone wires and over-the-air solutions aren't going to cut it. The only two was to get Gigabit Ethernet to the home are optical fiber and coaxial cable. Most communities won't be able to afford fiber installations, so Netflix and other streaming sources will be 100% at the mercy of Comcast and Cablevision. The future of home entertainment is the cable companies, not Netflix.
- kenjackson 15y agoShannon's Law doesn't actually say anything about the medium. That is we can find more bandwith OTA. I'm sure 30 years ago not many would have guessed you could do 100Mbps OTA (even knowing Shannon's Law), yet with LTE we can. With better engineering (multiple frequencies, compensations, etc...) I have little doubt that we can achieve bandwidths that are still technologically out of our reach today. With that said, when it does end, I'll probably be just as optimistic not knowing we hit the wall.
- chopsueyar 15y agoIt's not just the speed, it is how many simultaneous connections at the speed that is important. Also, 30 years ago, a MicroVAX was running at 5MHz, so anyone optimistic enough to assume we would break the 10MHz CPU barrier, could also assume we would break the 300bps communication barrier.