>> RBOCs leaning forward into FTTx?
Hi Frank, nice to be back. I'm having the interesting and very tangible sensation of having to dial up my internal clock about 300% to retrain on the internet signal.
I found the World's Best Salsa at Daisy's (an ex-bordello) in Sierra Vista, AZ ... and I brought back enough Moose Juice to last the fiscal year.
;-)
Thanks for the great review of the RBOC FTTx state.
I gather that most, if not all, the usual suspects have been rounded up with the surprising inclusion of several mimes and a jester which the booking sergeant has no idea how to process.
The hardened criminals show their typical obdurancy (1), but the mimes are inscrutable. They look like they're pulling fiber, but then again, they may just be playing out a one-man tug-of-war. That one over there seems to be pulling packets out of empty air. The jester is working for any attention he can get, but doesn't seem to have a real plan in mind. Nice hat though. The bauble works, too, but watch out that he doesn't bonk you with it. (2) Any similarity between this Puck and the routing puck is purely.
I'm trying to figure out when they're going to get this show on the road. Got any ideas about that?
>> If BellSouth moves to deploy, what are their constraints?
I wasn't thinking "regulatory" here, but rather wondering about the pattern of internal constraints on LECs ... how they themselves perceive the path going forward.
I've been wondering what they're waiting for ... what the signal, the convincer, that kicks them into gear? Or, maybe there never is a discontinuity ... maybe this is all about gradual and incremental evolution?
This is all about alliances, isn't it? No one player can deliver the future of their own initiative.
What is the future? (define your terms)
Has this issue ever been worked in this forum? Do we have a clear definition of what sevice must be like in the 5-10-20 year timeframe ... so that we can see the pieces that will have to come together?
Alliances. Private sub-nets. A heterogeneous impure web latticed with sub-strands of purity?
Is the internet a new ecosystem in which alliance-based sub-nets (e.g. ATHM or hypothetical pure optical sub-bets) play out their Darwinian destinies competing for the available user resources?
If the net cannot become pure overnight, or over 10 years, then it will be partially pure/impure over a long period of time.
This implies that the service quality of sub-nets will become a visible and compelling distinction.
That which is subsumed under the bastardized "broadband" nym will become articulated. Users will know that they can make phone calls on coax but need fiber to watch real TV.
Isn't coax dead as an attractive investment as soon as users perceive this?
I'd like to count the bits/sec needed to deliver all the services a home will want in the next 5-10-20 years.
Comments?
Cheers all,
Jay
Note (1)
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Obdurate \Ob"du*rate\, a. [L. obduratus, p. p. of obdurare to harden; ob (see Ob-)+ durare to harden, durus hard. See {Dure}.] 1. Hardened in feelings, esp. against moral or mollifying influences; unyielding; hard-hearted; stubbornly wicked.
The very custom of evil makes the heart obdurate against whatsoever instructions to the contrary. --Hooker.
Art thou obdurate, flinty, hard as steel, Nay, more than flint, for stone at rain relenteth? --Shak.
2. Hard; harsh; rugged; rough; intractable. ``Obdurate consonants.' --Swift.
Note: Sometimes accented on the second syllable, especially by the older poets.
There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart. --Cowper.
Syn: Hard; firm; unbending; inflexible; unyielding; stubborn; obstinate; impenitent; callous; unfeeling; insensible; unsusceptible.
Usage: {Obdurate}, {Callous}, {Hardened}. Callous denotes a deadening of the sensibilities; as. a callous conscience. Hardened implies a general and settled disregard for the claims of interest, duty, and sympathy; as, hardened in vice. Obdurate implies an active resistance of the heart and will aganst the pleadings of compassion and humanity. -- {Ob"du*rate*ly}, adv. -- {Ob"du*rate*ness}, n.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Obdurate \Ob"du*rate\, v. t. To harden. [Obs.]
From WordNet (r) 1.6 (wn)
obdurate adj 1: stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing [syn: {cussed}, {obstinate}, {unrepentant}] 2: showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings; "the child's misery would move even the most obdurate heart" [syn: {flinty}, {stony}]
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Often deformed, dwarfed, or crippled, fools may have been kept for luck as well as for amusement, in the belief that deformity can avert the evil eye and that abusive raillery can transfer ill luck from the abused to the abuser. Fool figures played a part in the religious rituals of India and pre-Christian Europe, and, in some societies, such as that of Ireland in the 7th century BC, they were regarded as being inspired with poetic and prophetic powers. The raillery of the fool and his frequent ritual association with a mock king suggest that he may have originated as a sacrificial scapegoat substituted for a royal victim. |
