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Re: Do ATM-based Exchange Points make sense anymore?


From: Vadim Antonov <avg () exigengroup com>
Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2002 13:59:12 -0700 (PDT)



On 10 Aug 2002, Paul Vixie wrote:

why on god's earth would subsecond anything matter in a nonmilitary situation?

Telemedicine, tele-robotics, etc, etc.  Actually, there's a lot of cases
when you want to have subsecond recovery.  The current Internet routing
technology is not up to the task; so people who need it have to build
private networks and pay for that arm and leg, too.

--vadim


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