Frank, ftth, thread - I recently watched a TV news segment regarding 360 Networks, and read some corresponding news articles.
The TV footage showed a number of shots inside a switching/operations centre, and it resembled a railway switching yard center, as much as anything else, except that the yard was the world. The story (as opposed to the footage) described the operator programming and initiating a point-to-point connection between two previously unconnected points in the network, in minutes. It was impressive. (Rephrase: I was impressed.) Demonstrated was the ability to almost instantly reconfigure the paths so that traffic is redistributed.
This ability apparently results from the use of Sycamore technology in a mesh topology.
My question is: is this ability, in the abstract one, IYO, that confers an edge to a provider, in a business sense?
And the corollary question, WRT our upstream discussion of VOIP on 360 Networks, are these steps, together with ftth's 'lard-ass pipes' >g< sufficient in the abstract to initiate VOIP as a commercial service?
I am using this careful phraseology in order that some illiterate nit does not consider your answer to be an 'endorsement' of 360 Networks.
Thanks for any responses.
Regards,
Jim |
