World's Top Carriers Pronounce OIF Interoperability Demo a Success

From Yahoo Finance...

"... AT&T, China Telecom, Deutsche Telekom, France Telecom, KDDI, Telecom Italia and Verizon hosted the event at lab facilities in six countries, on three continents. The Carriers said the event was of vital importance to the industry and to the development of Ethernet Services.

The Demo was also a complete success from an equipment supplier view. Eight optical equipment suppliers highlighted solutions for support of Ethernet services over multi-domain SONET/SDH transport networks by employing OIF Implementation Agreements (IAs) in a multi-carrier, multi-vendor environment. Participating system suppliers included Alcatel-Lucent, Ciena, Ericsson, Huawei Technologies, Marben Products, Sycamore Networks, Tellabs and ZTE.
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The ability to establish bandwidth connections from 50 Mb/s to 1 Gb/s, or even 10Gb/s, over a dynamic control plane optical core network will transform how bandwidth services are viewed by our Enterprise customers. Key enablers bringing the network transformation to reality are: the economical availability of GigE access ports; and bandwidth availability and grooming expansions from OXCs, ROADMs and packet enabled transport platforms.
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Complete article here:

http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/070917/20070916005070.html?.v=1

Now the question: how does it affect us? From the perspective of a regular user I guess we won't see the benefits in the near future, but from the perspective of worldwide companies I guess it will be great to know they can interconnect all their branch offices using the most popular and worldwide deployed standard for networks: ETHERNET!
Uhmmm... what about online games? does it mean it will be faster to play and interact with other gamers worldwide?... will see.

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This is the title of the latest news regarding Net Neutrality. I seriously don't find this fair, does it mean we will have to pay our bills for Internet access based on the web sites we visited? how can we trust they are charging the right amount? does it mean they will keep track of our "clicks" legally? This goes against our right to privacy. Or, will they charge based on our speed only? aren't they doing it already?
If this means this will work like the USPS service, does it mean they can charge us more money if for example we want to connect to www.google.com in 10 miliseconds versus 1 second?
Bottom line... this is B.S.!!! One more time the lobbysts seems to be doing their job pretty well... who is going to represent the common user like you or me?

Justice Department Opposes 'Net Neutrality'

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