OK. I got a little off topic last time. I’ll try to stay on topic and simply discuss the technologies that have, and will make the triple threat possible. By triple threat I mean the IPTV, VoIP, and high speed data services I spoke about in my last article. First off there is fiber optics. Fiber is really nothing new. Telco’s have been using it as far as I can remember to trunk between themselves. Everyone knows the physical properties of fiber, good stuff like 0.0009% (made up number), attenuation for every one thousand miles, and damn good resistance to electromagnetic interference. The amount of bandwidth that fiber can carry is truly ridiculous. So there is one route, and thats the route the the major telecommunications providers are taking now, running cables. It will cost billions, they will make billions more, and it will protect us against terrorist attack (*I just threw that one in there*).