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Re: Discussion point: Telco quality?
From: "Roeland M.J. Meyer" <rmeyer () mhsc com>
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1998 18:02:30 -0700
At 07:21 PM 10/8/98 -0400, Paul Ferguson wrote:
This latest fiber cut just kind of jarred my brain into the realization of what "telco quality" services really boils down to. In the end, all services, both traditional telephony services and data services, are more alike than people give them credit for. :-)
When I first went from MCI to PacBell/ACN an of PacBell veteran picked up the hand-set and made me listen to it. He then asked me what I heard, I said "dial tone", he said, "No, what you heard was a freaking miracle!". At the time, our job was to make the new broadband HFC network as reliable, but cheaper, than the local-loop system. As it turned out, he was right. Building such a system, and keeping it running, decade after decade, *is* a freaking miracle! We had 10,000 customers before SBC pulled the plug. ___________________________________________________ Roeland M.J. Meyer, ISOC (InterNIC RM993) e-mail: <mailto:rmeyer () mhsc com>rmeyer () mhsc com Internet phone: hawk.mhsc.com Personal web pages: <http://www.mhsc.com/~rmeyer>www.mhsc.com/~rmeyer Company web-site: <http://www.mhsc.com/>www.mhsc.com/ ___________________________________________ I bet the human brain is a kludge. -- Marvin Minsky
Current thread:
- Discussion point: Telco quality? Paul Ferguson (Oct 08)
- Re: Discussion point: Telco quality? Charles Sprickman (Oct 08)
- Re: Discussion point: Telco quality? Paul Ferguson (Oct 08)
- Re: Discussion point: Telco quality? David Lesher (Oct 08)
- Re: Discussion point: Telco quality? Paul Ferguson (Oct 08)
- Re: Discussion point: Telco quality? Paul Ferguson (Oct 08)
- Re: Discussion point: Telco quality? Charles Sprickman (Oct 08)
- Re: Discussion point: Telco quality? Roeland M.J. Meyer (Oct 08)
- RE: Discussion point: Telco quality? Bill St. Arnaud (Oct 09)
- RE: Discussion point: Telco quality? Paul Ferguson (Oct 09)
- RE: Discussion point: Telco quality? Bill St. Arnaud (Oct 09)
- RE: Discussion point: Telco quality? Paul Ferguson (Oct 09)
- RE: Discussion point: Telco quality? Roeland M.J. Meyer (Oct 09)
- RE: Discussion point: Telco quality? Paul Ferguson (Oct 09)
- Re: Discussion point: Telco quality? Paul Ferguson (Oct 11)
- Re: Discussion point: Telco quality? Dan Hollis (Oct 11)
- Re: Discussion point: Telco quality? Chris Kilbourn (Oct 12)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Discussion point: Telco quality? dharvey (Oct 08)