Here's a specific example. In a Cisco router you can install a Cisco SFP. In a Juniper router you can install a Juniper SFP, a Finisar SFP, a Fujitsu SFP et cetera. As long as it's standards compliant it works. The Cisco devices will read the manufacturer from the EEPROM on the pluggable, and shut down the port if it's not theirs.
Except you don't have to be within range of the CO, but within range of the DSLAM. The DSLAMs are fiber fed and can be installed in un-airconditioned cabinets all over town. It costs a lot of money, but DSL does have the potential to be plenty fast. A big part of the problem is that the companies operating the DSL networks are old telephone companies that are already pretty debt laden and can't afford to spend billions on upgrades (they are already spending hundreds of millions per year on upgrades). They also in some cases don't have a solid inter-state network to backhaul that traffic to Chicago, Atlanta, Dallas, et cetera (Lookin at you Frontier) so all that is done through 3rd parties and is very expensive.
He thought it was just a stopover on the way to South America. I don't think the russians were the ones preventing him from continuing onwards though. If you'll recall the US was having planes from Moscow to South America diverted so they could be searched. It was a proud fucking moment.
This is about "Well, I can layover in Atlanta, or I can layover in Detroit. Atlanta is a pain in the ass to check my email, so let's go through Detroit".
If they were in the UK, France, or Israel their local cloak and dagger types would be just as likely to try and sneak something into the binaries. The NSA have plenty of contemporaries.
You're conflating Transport and Peering. Or possibly Remote Peering and Peering. If your router is in your basement, that explains your grasp of the Internet. If your router is in 1 Wilshire, 350 Cermak, or 111 8th, Peering is effectively free.
I think you're right about items 1 2 and 3, but not necessarily municipal fiber. There are some good examples out there, but only because the alternatives are so incompetent/complacent/debt-ridden. If we had a more healthy telecom environment in the USA, nobody would give a damn about Municipal fiber, or Google fiber for that matter. Including Google.
SNMP is the best way to keep an eye on a network of thousands of devices. Many useful things become useless if you only consider the context of your mother's basement.
I've done some programming to interact with SNMP enabled devices and I don't think people realize just how much information is exposed this way, and often by default. You don't have to know anything about the device to 'walk' it and pull all available information if the community string is still set to 'public'.
If you read the quote it says 'want' and 'offer'. He's accusing them of being communists. Why do you want so badly for it to be worse than that? Isn't that bad enough?
I think his implication is that they would be more comfortable in the employ of the Stasi, which had a pretty good grip on censorship and thought policing. Not that I agree with him, but I think you've misunderstood the statement.
Because Democrats favor government control of everything, because it helps them line their pockets. If you control something, you can accept campaign donations to steer it one way or another. Republicans do very much the same thing for the same reason, but have to be more careful how they phrase it to not piss off their state and local oriented base.
Oh it's definitely sharing the same fiber, dwdm, otn, sonet, packet, mpls, everything with our public IP traffic. BUT, they're paying a premium and getting QoS, CoS, guaranteed CIR, in some cases guaranteed latency. That's the point. Healthcare providers, and especially insurers, are already paying for Fast Lanes, so it's a terrible example of why ISPs should get to squeeze content providers but degrading their retail IP networks.
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Here's a specific example. In a Cisco router you can install a Cisco SFP. In a Juniper router you can install a Juniper SFP, a Finisar SFP, a Fujitsu SFP et cetera. As long as it's standards compliant it works. The Cisco devices will read the manufacturer from the EEPROM on the pluggable, and shut down the port if it's not theirs.
We don't repeal laws. Every year there are more laws than the previous year.
$deity help you if you're one of the poor bastards coming there from Africa or the Middle East.
Still about a million times better than Africa or the Middle East, though. That's the root of the problem.
John Gabriel's Greater Internet Dickwad Theory
The default passwords shouldn't be used, and without a key someone shouldn't be able to gain management access to the device.
Except you don't have to be within range of the CO, but within range of the DSLAM. The DSLAMs are fiber fed and can be installed in un-airconditioned cabinets all over town.
It costs a lot of money, but DSL does have the potential to be plenty fast. A big part of the problem is that the companies operating the DSL networks are old telephone companies that are already pretty debt laden and can't afford to spend billions on upgrades (they are already spending hundreds of millions per year on upgrades). They also in some cases don't have a solid inter-state network to backhaul that traffic to Chicago, Atlanta, Dallas, et cetera (Lookin at you Frontier) so all that is done through 3rd parties and is very expensive.
He thought it was just a stopover on the way to South America. I don't think the russians were the ones preventing him from continuing onwards though. If you'll recall the US was having planes from Moscow to South America diverted so they could be searched. It was a proud fucking moment.
Well shit, I guess maybe we shouldn't encrypt our emails after all.
Historically, technical means are a valid way to help fix social problems. Would we have ended slavery as quickly without the cotton gin?
This is about "Well, I can layover in Atlanta, or I can layover in Detroit. Atlanta is a pain in the ass to check my email, so let's go through Detroit".
When I was new to Sweden .... snip .... and we compete with foreigners
Sounds like you are the problem.
If they were in the UK, France, or Israel their local cloak and dagger types would be just as likely to try and sneak something into the binaries. The NSA have plenty of contemporaries.
Nasa talks like that. Musk knows his audience. http://history.nasa.gov/SP-420...
You're conflating Transport and Peering. Or possibly Remote Peering and Peering.
If your router is in your basement, that explains your grasp of the Internet.
If your router is in 1 Wilshire, 350 Cermak, or 111 8th, Peering is effectively free.
I think you're right about items 1 2 and 3, but not necessarily municipal fiber. There are some good examples out there, but only because the alternatives are so incompetent/complacent/debt-ridden. If we had a more healthy telecom environment in the USA, nobody would give a damn about Municipal fiber, or Google fiber for that matter. Including Google.
The the peering costs may still be cheaper than their transit
Comcast was also degrading Netflix's Transit providers, Cogent and L3.
So why does Netflix have to pay?
It is called extortion. Comcast was willing to impair their own customer service to make Netflix pay up.
I don't think that joke works outside of Australia.
It is, and to use the more secure SNMPv3 where possible, but too many otherwise technically competent people don't really understand SNMP.
SNMP is the best way to keep an eye on a network of thousands of devices. Many useful things become useless if you only consider the context of your mother's basement.
I've done some programming to interact with SNMP enabled devices and I don't think people realize just how much information is exposed this way, and often by default.
You don't have to know anything about the device to 'walk' it and pull all available information if the community string is still set to 'public'.
It's like the Einstein quote, "We can not solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them'"
If you read the quote it says 'want' and 'offer'. He's accusing them of being communists. Why do you want so badly for it to be worse than that? Isn't that bad enough?
I think his implication is that they would be more comfortable in the employ of the Stasi, which had a pretty good grip on censorship and thought policing. Not that I agree with him, but I think you've misunderstood the statement.
Because Democrats favor government control of everything, because it helps them line their pockets. If you control something, you can accept campaign donations to steer it one way or another. Republicans do very much the same thing for the same reason, but have to be more careful how they phrase it to not piss off their state and local oriented base.
Oh it's definitely sharing the same fiber, dwdm, otn, sonet, packet, mpls, everything with our public IP traffic. BUT, they're paying a premium and getting QoS, CoS, guaranteed CIR, in some cases guaranteed latency. That's the point. Healthcare providers, and especially insurers, are already paying for Fast Lanes, so it's a terrible example of why ISPs should get to squeeze content providers but degrading their retail IP networks.