For the moment, it's highly unreliable. Gilder is a wonderful futurist, but digital requires one of two things; (1) a reliable system of pipeline + headend or (2) robust software that accomdodates the errors of (1). In this biz, nothing frustrates me more than a computer idiot going: "I took a 3 second hit at 2 A.M on a DS3!! Why????"
Well hell, I was pretending to be Bill Clinton at that time, how the hell do I know why there was a three second hit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I WAS BUSY WITH MY PERSONNEL LIFE!!!!!!!!!
As long as digital is absolute, there is no Gilder future. When digital can tolerate hits and minor disruptions, then there is no future. What everyone is demanding is perfection, ain't going to happen.
As to your other question, CLEC's are pursuing the business sector, which pay's the highest dollar. Don't hold your breathe for them to be at your curb. NOt part of the business plan, and if it is, then it is nothing more than talk. Last mile to you and me is a convenant that is rooted deep in the monopoly that was Ma Bell. It was a convenant between Ma Bell and the government. CLEC's don't play by them rules. As the coputer dickhead of WorldCom proclaimed after the proposed merger of MCI "Who cares about residential!!" To the curb, at your house, is unprofitable. Plain and simple.
If you are waiting for cable, $ill Gates or other computer jerks to resolve that deilema, forget it. We return to reliability and the cost of that. "Oh took a three second hit. WHY????" The answer cost plenty of bucks!!! |
