I don't know where you got you info from but this is not exactly the way it works.
A smaller ISP's connection and a Sympatico connection are exactly the same all the way from the house to the Broadband Aggregation Server (BAS). In Nexxia's case they use Juniper ERX and Redbacks SMS-1800. From the BAS, the Sympatico customers go straight to the Nexxia IP cloud via a FE or GE connection while the smaller ISP's traffic has to be backhauled again over ATM via an L2TP tunnel. Only then do you access the small ISP's IP network. In fact this actually makes it worse because you add extra overhead (not that much but most of the time you have to reduce your MTU even more when you are with a smaller ISP or risk fragmentation and certain web sites not loading at all).
Given that a lot of these small ISPs actually use Nexxia as their ISP I find it hard to beleive that they would in fact be faster than Sympatico.
I've been on Sympatico HSE for over three years and have been very satisfied. I have friends who use the smaller ISPs, but its certainly not for speed... maybe more for the more "specialized" kind of service they offer (static IP, droneless help desk, better NNTP feed...).
The difference is that banks and cell phone companies still make an impressive amount of money even with these "restrictions". DRM could actually hurt the record comapnie's bottom line according to this poll. If that won't make them care I don't know what will...
Is a noisy computer next to my whisper quiet AV equipment...
Really, until they figure out how to make these new gizmos as quiet as virtually all the other AV equipment out there they won't be getting me as a customer. I can't picture myself trying to listen to good music with some PC PS fan whisltling in the background... It just doesn't work.
They killed Napster, then emerged Morpheus and Kazaa. They poison Kazaa, Network X comes out. By the time they figure out what to do with Network X, it will have millions of users happily trading songs again.
I wish the RIAA would figure out that if they would simply give us an alternate (and unrestricted) legal way to get our songs, a lot of users, myself included, would gladly abandon P2P.
My experience is that most VOIP installations are inside a company's already secured IP infrastructure. If they go branch to branch they will usually use private frame relay or ATM
PVCs. If they go over the Internet it will be over IPSEC or MPLS VPNs.
So what is the big deal here?
If you use Cisco's VOIP solution, the phones can even reside on something called an auxillary VLAN that is completely seperate from the VLANs used by the computers. Of course you need to use all Cisco gear (phones, switches etc.)
And this thing about DOS attacks is BS. What corporation in their right minds would carry they VOIP traffic directly over the Internet... C'mon!
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I don't know where you got you info from but this is not exactly the way it works.
A smaller ISP's connection and a Sympatico connection are exactly the same all the way from the house to the Broadband Aggregation Server (BAS). In Nexxia's case they use Juniper ERX and Redbacks SMS-1800. From the BAS, the Sympatico customers go straight to the Nexxia IP cloud via a FE or GE connection while the smaller ISP's traffic has to be backhauled again over ATM via an L2TP tunnel. Only then do you access the small ISP's IP network. In fact this actually makes it worse because you add extra overhead (not that much but most of the time you have to reduce your MTU even more when you are with a smaller ISP or risk fragmentation and certain web sites not loading at all).
Given that a lot of these small ISPs actually use Nexxia as their ISP I find it hard to beleive that they would in fact be faster than Sympatico.
I've been on Sympatico HSE for over three years and have been very satisfied. I have friends who use the smaller ISPs, but its certainly not for speed... maybe more for the more "specialized" kind of service they offer (static IP, droneless help desk, better NNTP feed...).
This was actually done over Bell Canada's public IP Infrastructure using MPLS VPN technology, not over a "private" IP Network...
Get all the details from the Cisco press release:
http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/prod_030403.html
Miscrosoft is just behaving like any other company would when threatened by competition, be it OSS or other...
The difference is that banks and cell phone companies still make an impressive amount of money even with these "restrictions". DRM could actually hurt the record comapnie's bottom line according to this poll. If that won't make them care I don't know what will...
Is a noisy computer next to my whisper quiet AV equipment...
Really, until they figure out how to make these new gizmos as quiet as virtually all the other AV equipment out there they won't be getting me as a customer. I can't picture myself trying to listen to good music with some PC PS fan whisltling in the background... It just doesn't work.
The next P2P network comes out...
They killed Napster, then emerged Morpheus and Kazaa. They poison Kazaa, Network X comes out. By the time they figure out what to do with Network X, it will have millions of users happily trading songs again.
I wish the RIAA would figure out that if they would simply give us an alternate (and unrestricted) legal way to get our songs, a lot of users, myself included, would gladly abandon P2P.
Dream on...
My experience is that most VOIP installations are inside a company's already secured IP infrastructure. If they go branch to branch they will usually use private frame relay or ATM PVCs. If they go over the Internet it will be over IPSEC or MPLS VPNs. So what is the big deal here? If you use Cisco's VOIP solution, the phones can even reside on something called an auxillary VLAN that is completely seperate from the VLANs used by the computers. Of course you need to use all Cisco gear (phones, switches etc.)
And this thing about DOS attacks is BS. What corporation in their right minds would carry they VOIP traffic directly over the Internet... C'mon!