It is not clear what would go over those big pipes, since few applications need 100 megabits.

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Timely turnaround of the big pipes is much on his mind.

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Whether it's phone wire used for dial-up and digital subscriber lines (DSL), or the coaxial cables that carry cable modem connections, these connections are a bottleneck between the carrier's big pipes and your bandwidth-starved computer.

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So, for example, a 300-acre plant near Dallas takes Bridgeport's sand and gravel and turns it into concrete pipes as big as 12 feet in diameter.

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Bulawayo Mayor Thaba Moyo told the BBC the "big flush" would keep pipes wet and so prevent them getting clogged up.

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It is a different, this debate goes on, every five years, it seems to raise an issue about how much big companies that own the pipes should have control over what goes over those pipes.

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The latest cooling tricks, including big copper heat sinks and water-filled pipes, are not keeping up.

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There was lots of demand in northern New Jersey, and insufficient supply because a lot of the conventional generation was shut down, and the pipes connecting the zones were not big enough to accommodate the demand.

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That's meant better times for the big companies such as Corning and Nortel Networks, which build the pipes and parts out of which fiber-optic networks are built.

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The looming capacity crunch of the 1990s was averted not just by slower demand growth, but also dramatically increased supply, in the form of big investments in fibre-optic cable and technical tricks that squeezed more data through the pipes.

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