re: wide versus long time
From a friend and sometimes - albeit, not frequently enough for me - collaborator of mine in the pursuit of network truth, here's a note from Tom Henderson, senior contributing editor Network Magazine. He sent me this note in reply to the above linked post on saloon speak (123). Posted with permission.
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Frank,
There's a concept called wide vs long time. Wide time is awareness of what's happening in the immediacy. Long time considers a zone that's similar to decades past and future.
Here's the trouble: in defining what's going on, and what to pay attention to, the Internet has increased wide-time significantly. A secondary effect of the Internet is extreme connectivity on a person-to-person level. It's not only stressful, but fun because of the incredible amount of things that can be 'kept-up on'.
Communications, what with email, chat, and the concurrencies of voice and data conversations means that we get the feeling that things are very important in the wide time perspective.
Right now, we need brute force, fattest pipes possible. We'll get tricky with codecs, QoS/QoM etc when we run out of new and trick ways to force feed photons down glass. New encoding schemes are wonderful. The more the merrier. Getting people to think and invest in infrastructure is important--even if it's virtual instead of bricks and mortar.
I did the ICA's TPC meeting a while back in NYC. Took a limo into the city to stay in the Village (as usual). Got tickets to see John Schofield and his band at the Sat midnight showing at the Blue Note. My associate, an engineer w/a music degree, was falling asleep (light weight) even though he liked the music. Rising to occasion requires diligence. Some of us have it, and others don't.
Tom |
