"Do you remember that there were always lengths of fat lead pipes about - supposed to be for repairs?"

As more people get fat pipes, the fights will become fierce over what comes over those pipes and how.

He followed the agent along a curving corridor with a steel mesh floor and fat pipes following the line of the ceiling.

For instance, high-bandwidth connections are often referred to as "fat pipes."

How many people would drop their asses if another competitor offered just a fat dumb pipe?

"Broadband is a fat digital pipe to the home, and Microsoft desperately wants to be at end of that pipe."

Unfortunately, current encoding methods are very inefficient, so those big fat pipes are actually nearly empty.

Such "long fat pipes" require a special protocol design.

Does a high-speed backbone, also known as a fat pipe, mean that Web pages pop up faster?

Someone has bought a huge fat pipe and is probably using only 10 percent of its capacity, and zero percent while away.