Wait... what? "C is a general-purpose, block structured, procedural, imperative computer programming language developed in 1972 by Dennis Ritchie at the Bell Telephone Laboratories for use with the Unix operating system." Wikipedia.org (Yeah, yeah, I know.)
"Microsoft first introduced an operating environment named Windows in November 1985..." Also Wikipedia.
"MS-DOS was originally released in 1981..." Wikipedia again.
Either you don't have a clue, or I missed the point.
While it is a good idea to increase the useful lifespan of the existing infrastructure, with the increasing demand on the current infrastructure I feel it is not long until it simply cannot cope with the load. If there was a plan to gradually upgrade the infrastructure across a few years, possibly with this method working as a temporary measure until all the fibre is laid, then financial impact and disruption should be less severe. However, if this method is used until the copper starts failing and only then do the upgrades to fibre start happening then it will cause much more disruption than just road closures and would more than likely be a helluva lot more expensive than the upgrade.
Then again, they're damned if they do, and they're damned if they don't. If they do make the upgrade, people will complain about the delays caused by them digging up roads, and the cost. If they don't make the upgrade, then people will complain about the service not being at it's best.
So now the ISPs, etc. have another excuse for not upgrading the infrastructure. yay for broadband across old copper(!)
I would much rather have them lay fiber, than try to squeeze more bits down the aging copper. But they won't. They'll just carry on trying to survive as long as possible without upgrading, which isn't good for the customer in the long run.
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And how, may I ask, would they do this? (And, more to the point, who would this 'they' be?)
"Why did MS develope the C languages"
Wait... what?
"C is a general-purpose, block structured, procedural, imperative computer programming language developed in 1972 by Dennis Ritchie at the Bell Telephone Laboratories for use with the Unix operating system."
Wikipedia.org (Yeah, yeah, I know.)
"Microsoft first introduced an operating environment named Windows in November 1985..."
Also Wikipedia.
"MS-DOS was originally released in 1981..."
Wikipedia again.
Either you don't have a clue, or I missed the point.
While it is a good idea to increase the useful lifespan of the existing infrastructure, with the increasing demand on the current infrastructure I feel it is not long until it simply cannot cope with the load. If there was a plan to gradually upgrade the infrastructure across a few years, possibly with this method working as a temporary measure until all the fibre is laid, then financial impact and disruption should be less severe.
However, if this method is used until the copper starts failing and only then do the upgrades to fibre start happening then it will cause much more disruption than just road closures and would more than likely be a helluva lot more expensive than the upgrade.
Then again, they're damned if they do, and they're damned if they don't. If they do make the upgrade, people will complain about the delays caused by them digging up roads, and the cost. If they don't make the upgrade, then people will complain about the service not being at it's best.
So now the ISPs, etc. have another excuse for not upgrading the infrastructure.
yay for broadband across old copper(!)
I would much rather have them lay fiber, than try to squeeze more bits down the aging copper. But they won't. They'll just carry on trying to survive as long as possible without upgrading, which isn't good for the customer in the long run.