Canadian Telco Telus Moves All Call Traffic to the Net

justice0x1 writes "An article on the Tornonto Star about Canada's Telus making a large scale motion to move all call trafic over to IP caught my eye today. 'Telus will become the first dominant phone carrier in North America to make the risky transition, a move much talked about and which Telus will make happen on a dramatic scale.' Since I work in the Telus Internet Service department, it will be interesting to see exactly how this new technology fares. Seems almost premature to me, but I guess it's all or nothing with telecomunications these days; you need to get an edge on the competition somehow. Why not start by moving youre entire long distance network over to IP?"

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The USA is Dying

[Michael's a Jerk!]

It is official -- The UN is now confirming: The USA is dying

One more crippling bombshell crushed the already beleaguered American economy
when x-rates.com confirmed that the American Dollar has dropped yet again, now down to .9 of a Euro. Coming on the heels of a recent Usenet survey which plainly states that The American Economy is in a recession, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. The USA is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead
last [samag.com] in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.

You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict the USA's future. The hand writing is on the wall: The USA faces a bleak future. In fact there won't
be any future at all for the USA because it is dying. Things are looking very bad for America. As many of us are already aware, the US continues to lose relevence. Red ink flows like a river of blood.

The IT industry is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core
developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time IT jobs to india only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: The American IT Industry is dying.

Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.

Microsoft Encarta states that there are 291,065,636 people in America. What is the US's national debt? Let's see. According to the The Debt clock the USA's National Debt is 6,465,271,811,559.14. Therefore each American is $22,212.42. in debt. In fact, the USA's national debt has continued to increase an average of
$992 million per day since September 30, 2002. Indeed, it can clearly be seen the the US is going broke faster then the Soviet Union did

Due to the troubles of American Meddling, An Capitalist Gorvernment and so on, South Vietnam was attacked was taken over by North Vietnam who sell another a more compassionate government. Now
Iraq is also dead, its corpse turned over to feed the US media.

All major surveys show that the USA has steadily declined in the world economy. America
is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If the USA is
to survive at all it will be among a broken collection of warring factions. America continues to
decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For
all practical purposes, the United States of America is dead.

Fact: The USA is dying

Here we go again.

[professorpoole]

Some of us *require* real-time transmission (or as close to it as we can get) - in broadcasting, where I work, just to name one. Ethernet is more efficient for an office network because it allows many machines to share resources. At times when the network gets really busy, people notice a delay; annoying, but not the end of the world. The same principle applies here: if the circuits get really busy, there might be a delay (or even a brief dropout) before you hear Aunt Lona say "hello" at the other end of the line. Again: annoying, but not the end of the world. But now imagine that the connection is being used to control a piece of equipment many miles away. Or, to transport a real-time signal, say, a ballgame from a distant city. Both are true in our case. We need real time, or as close as you can get. When you can't get a satellite channel, the method of choice for a quickie audio remote is ISDN. The telcos hate these nowadays: technically, because you're tying up one "slice" of a T1 group. They'd much rather distribute packets on that T1 like a card dealer in Vegas; if the table is full of gamblers, it just takes a little longer, is all. More efficient. You folks in Canada: don't be surprised if your internet service suffers as a result of this. You're gonna be sharing bandwidth with the call to Aunt Lona ... :)