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.

Thanks for reading.