I suspect there is more to this story. They may just be checking out due to DOS attacks as an excuse for their investors. There are many ways to combat a DOS attack and BT could have played a large part in that respect. The tools and techniques are available, even to mitigate a DDOS from multiple real hacked hosts.
Gee, and we thought clear-text was dangerous across land lines. In fact, following along the echelon/big brother lines, here in Virginia I have actually seen very large satellite be built, then seen a house nearby be taken over by Feds. The thought is they are sitting in the house pulling down all the transmissions directly from the satellite for mass monitoring.
I think your time frame is awfully optimistic. Satellite technology always has been expensive, and even now, after products such as DirecPC have been out for years, its still expensive. We are competing for a finite and extremely limited resource as far as the capacity that these satellites can support.
Unfortunately an Internet cafe in the middle of nowhere could barely afford to sustain basic utilities, let lone sustain its net connection. This technology does not apply to laws of economics, the same could be said for airlines that are fighting for their own survival right now. Even a company providing basic phone service via satellite couldn't even get off the ground.
Until the number of satellites increases substancially, satellite services will not appeal to the market at large.
From the satellite links I have worked with the avage latency was around 400-600ms. It simply has to do with the speed that the signal can travel over the distance and cannot be improved through traditional means. This is acceptable for most data transmissions though.
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Is Hyperchip Hype?
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Alright, you guys are killing me. No one seems to have a clue about the router industry but seems happy to make moronic comments anyway. I work for a router vendor, and have seen Hyperchip's product also. It is the same as most every next gen product from all of the router vendors.
Multishelf is the new design. Juniper's next gen product, Gibson is multishelf. Alcatel's (not that anyone gives a shit about their IP products) next gen product, the 777, is multishelf. Cisco's and any other core router vendor that still has money is are also building multishelf systems.
The Hyperchip gear is not revelutionary, it simply can control a lot of shelves and ports from a single vantage port. This doesn't mean that single pipes are going to be running at millions of megabits, it means that you can switch large amounts of traffic across your backplane. This isn't a big deal, its just more then anyone needs right now. The rest of the companies will come out with products that can be daisy chained all day long also, but are busy making in between type products to generate revenue in the mean time.
This also has nothing to do with DWDM, because again, we aren't talking about bigger pipes. Just bigger boxes to plug more pipes into. The current pipes are OC192/10Gig-E. They are essentially the same thing and work just fine on networks today. The next step is OC768/40Gig. Currently most core routers are being made with 10 Gb/s slots. The next gen of routers will be made with 40 Gb/s slots. This is the landscape for the next 3 years. This is also perfectly natural and makes sense to anyone that has a clue. Now the statement that its 1000 times "faster" is just marketing and hype. But people that actually buy boxes like this don't give a shit about hype. They put boxes in their labs, test the hell out of them, and if they like them, they will by 100 million dollars worth of them. Simple as that. Let the ignorance continue punks.
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I suspect there is more to this story. They may just be checking out due to DOS attacks as an excuse for their investors. There are many ways to combat a DOS attack and BT could have played a large part in that respect. The tools and techniques are available, even to mitigate a DDOS from multiple real hacked hosts.
Gee, and we thought clear-text was dangerous across land lines. In fact, following along the echelon/big brother lines, here in Virginia I have actually seen very large satellite be built, then seen a house nearby be taken over by Feds. The thought is they are sitting in the house pulling down all the transmissions directly from the satellite for mass monitoring.
I think your time frame is awfully optimistic. Satellite technology always has been expensive, and even now, after products such as DirecPC have been out for years, its still expensive. We are competing for a finite and extremely limited resource as far as the capacity that these satellites can support. Unfortunately an Internet cafe in the middle of nowhere could barely afford to sustain basic utilities, let lone sustain its net connection. This technology does not apply to laws of economics, the same could be said for airlines that are fighting for their own survival right now. Even a company providing basic phone service via satellite couldn't even get off the ground. Until the number of satellites increases substancially, satellite services will not appeal to the market at large.
From the satellite links I have worked with the avage latency was around 400-600ms. It simply has to do with the speed that the signal can travel over the distance and cannot be improved through traditional means. This is acceptable for most data transmissions though.
Multishelf is the new design. Juniper's next gen product, Gibson is multishelf. Alcatel's (not that anyone gives a shit about their IP products) next gen product, the 777, is multishelf. Cisco's and any other core router vendor that still has money is are also building multishelf systems.
The Hyperchip gear is not revelutionary, it simply can control a lot of shelves and ports from a single vantage port. This doesn't mean that single pipes are going to be running at millions of megabits, it means that you can switch large amounts of traffic across your backplane. This isn't a big deal, its just more then anyone needs right now. The rest of the companies will come out with products that can be daisy chained all day long also, but are busy making in between type products to generate revenue in the mean time.
This also has nothing to do with DWDM, because again, we aren't talking about bigger pipes. Just bigger boxes to plug more pipes into. The current pipes are OC192/10Gig-E. They are essentially the same thing and work just fine on networks today. The next step is OC768/40Gig. Currently most core routers are being made with 10 Gb/s slots. The next gen of routers will be made with 40 Gb/s slots. This is the landscape for the next 3 years. This is also perfectly natural and makes sense to anyone that has a clue. Now the statement that its 1000 times "faster" is just marketing and hype. But people that actually buy boxes like this don't give a shit about hype. They put boxes in their labs, test the hell out of them, and if they like them, they will by 100 million dollars worth of them. Simple as that. Let the ignorance continue punks.