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If MS can’t get Live Source to work then no amount of coaxing a different service will work either. For the culture thing as you mention in the piece.

Its actually 50mbps. The information is incorrectly displayed.

But yes, the beast that is complaining is the one that is actually impoverishing the artists.

As to the comment about scale on the backend. Went to a demo yesterday. I was a presentation of using virtual routers, not VLAN, to expand capacity. Come to find out in about 30% of corporate network installations the bottleneck is not the interface cards but the internal software tables and their trade offs. So what this company was showing was take a Intel Quad4 VT box, with the fastest FSB you can find and cram it full of 10Gbs eth cards then create virtual machines of 8 routers. Each router supporting its own zone with as many dedicated eth cards as practical for each zone. They then handled the boundary layer hand offs using virtual private circuits in the virtual space.

It was interesting to see a $5k off the shelf box do the work of a $30k Cisco machine.

The other item not touched on was quality of product. All I will say is one name — Jason Blair — leave it at that.

Sigh…

I still don’t know why more smaller communities don’t attempt the fiber infrastructure bit themselves. They float it as a bond/special tax issue. They hire a third party to lay the fiber. They contract with several firms to provide the content. Let the customers choose who they want. The provider collects their bit at a reduced rate [they don’t own the pipe] + the infrastructure fee from the city.

From a political standpoint this is no different from paving roads. Something every Pol knows.

With companies and governments fostering 4day weeks or ‘3on-2off’ type telecommuting to help alleviate the fuel crisis, this kind of bandwidth demand will increase. I keep saying that we could eliminate our current cost crisis by expanding telework greatly. If we had the bandwidth places like Wall Street could be a ghost town.

I have to agree with Vint. Your analysis is a ‘net’ version of life, not the actual reason for the Telecom Act.

The Telecom Act was designed to open the PSTN, public Switched telephone networks, and also based on the Bell companies claims that they would be rewiring America with fiber.

In 1992-1995 whent the Telecom Act was conceived, there was no ‘net’, except for walled in services like AOL.

The Telecom Act was then highjacked by the phone companies with the help of the FCC, who killed off all of the competitive parts of the act and failed to enforce basic competitive laws.

>Cerf’s comments will likely be used by >many to make the case for a federal >takeover of the internet.

Doubtful, though I can see your point. The main issue today is — it’s all about infrastructure, not about the applications, like the net, over that infrastructure.

In fact, the highway system was the basis of the original Telecom act — AL Gore’s ‘information superhighway’ was a model to rewire America called the National Infrastructure Initiative, was to redo the copper wiring with fiber — Gore got the idea from his father’s work who helped to get the national highway system in place.

Again, the problem wasn’t the act, but the implementation of the act being influenced by the phone companies, who raised their hand in 1990’s that they would rewire, then pocketed the money — estimated at $240 billion and counting.

I’ve been tracking this since 1992, and wrote about it in “$200 Billion Broadband Scandal” and
as expert for Harvard Nieman Foundation Watchdog project.

http://www.niemanwatchdog.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=about.viewcontributors&bioid=130

Bruce Kushnick

Incidentally this aslso reflects a sililar trends seen in other countries, and makes WiMAX one of the technologies to get ahead of established companies whose infrasture can not be matched by newcomers But the services can, as well demonstrated by the $25 per month broadband access offering lauhced this month.

I’m carefully watching the developments from here on and I’ve actually started a blog dedicated to this as well.

Their loss.

That twc time-warner cable road runner cable was _dropping_ usenet service. I’m outraged.

Like I say, the judge should have terminated with prejudice.

With IPTV technology this is all possible.

Doubt it will happen though.