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FUN FIBER FACTS:
InfniSys's Richard Holtz
Richard Holtz of InfniSys
Talks About "The System"
I
t's not about the fber, it's not about the
cabling, it's not about anything else, it is
the system. Te system is from the provider
of the content, continuing through the wiring,
to the iPhone or the tablet or computer or
whatever else. Even if you have fber, if you put
twisted pair and 10 meg switches after it, you
are screwed. One sloppily installed elbow bend
in the fber can screw you up.
You can't easily explain "the system" if you
talk fber. Here's how I explain the system to
MDU owners: Say you go to a hotel, or you live
in an apartment, or live in your own single-
family home, and you are taking a nice hot
shower because
your back hurts.
A real hot shower.
What happens
when someone
fushes a toilet?
Te water gets very
hot and scalds you,
unless the system
is designed to avoid that. You go Ouch!
Tat's what happens when a system is not
designed to handle what can happen.
THEN they understand!
If I don't have the electronics that support it,
forget it. If I don't have the circuit that supports
it, forget it. If the end-user has a great Wi-Fi
system, but all he has is an old iPhone 3, the
best they may see is 3 Mbps down. Even old
cordless phones interfere with Wi-Fi. Before
DECT, they all operated in the 2.4 GHz band.
Tat's unmanaged space, of course. You can
operate anything in that band. And those old
phones took a lot of channel space. Tey were
very noisy, wide-channeled, because they were
cheap. But in the United States there are only
three usable channels on that band anyway.
I still remember Bill Gates of Microsoft
and Cisco CEO John Chambers try to put on
presentations at computer shows using Wi-Fi,
and their presentations almost always would
fail. Pareto's law, the 80-20 rule, 20 percent
use most of the services. But when it comes to
bandwidth, maybe it is the 97-3 rule or the 99-1
rule. One big user can make a hash of it if you
don't provide the SYSTEM.
Above:
Richard Holtz
CEO
InfniSys
Above right:
Audience members
listen to Richard Holtz's
presentation at the
2013 Summit.
Talk about that nice hot
shower rather than fber,
to get the point across.
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