Re: New minimum speed for US broadband connections

[Mark Tinka <mark@tinka.africa>]

On 6/2/21 10:44, Peter Kristolaitis wrote:

> Of course it is.  Commonly referred to as SaaS -- Steak As A 
> Service.   You order whatever type of steak you want, then the vendor 
> manages the rest for you -- allocating a slice of the hardware, 
> managing the entire lifecycle from system assembly to deprovisioning, 
> system burn-in, etc.  The more modern vendors can even provide 
> real-time GPS tracking and fault monitoring of your hardware (though 
> automated remediation is lacking as it's unable to handle common 
> problem like "hardware tangled in barbed geofence").
>
> The lead time kinda sucks though, and it's often worth the premium to 
> be able to immediately get what you want from a local vendor.

Guess I'm going to have tell my doctor that I'll be ignoring my 
potassium levels :-).

Mark.