All,
Sometimes I don't post the urls of press release postings because I use some mailing list services and some news wires that aren't so generous with their sources. I will post them whenever I can.
Secondly, I admit that I like to use the thread as a repository of ready reading and reference material, without the need to pull screens back and forth. Guilty as charged. But granted, the URLs are helpful.
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Scott,
Glad to see you back! You say:
>>They are so limited in their thinking ... why only 300? In a true IP based infrastructure, implemented with hierarchical caching and multicast, there will be billions of "channels"... anyone can be a broadcaster of streaming multimedia ... even with minimal connection bandwidth (heck, dual ISDN can be used to feed a cache at an ISP that can feed numerous users)<<
You said it, Scottso! You, me, George Gilder and Nicholas Negroponte, not necessarily in that order, should all sit down some day and have a cup of espresso in Greenwich Village. We'd probably come up with a doozey of a migration plan to allow this capability, and one which will satisfy your predictions, if you are agreeable to relinquishing "some" of those Layer 3 protocols of yours, and listening to some new-fangled directions in the way of lambda add-drop manipulation and spectrum utilization. Agreed? I know a good place where we can go where the coffee is great and the background music is coool.
Kidding aside, check out post # 2400 in the @Home thread,
Message 5126497 (see I can do it!)
...where a similar point is made, making reference to old IBM coaxial based controllers, of all things, that splashed up screens all at once, instead of the slow paint that its losing competition used. Brought back memories for me, anyway.
Later, Frank C. |
