Blog Archive: January 1970
MBONE - the next rage?
On May 1st, 1997 In Technology
I remember the "PicturePhone"... I was going to buy one as soon as they
where available. Something went wrong, however, and along with those
thousands of Popular Science covers it never made it to market.
I've been using the MBONE for a few years now. It's a cool experiment
which is not quite ready for prime time. I
Next-hop-reachability is not Policy
On May 1st, 1997 In Technology
It's interesting to me that people who know better often confuse basic
routing (which I'll call next-hop-reachability) with policy. Most of
todays routing systems are only concerned with next-hop-reachability.
They don't address policy at all. To me policy looks like "you go in
the slow lane because you're not paying as
The coming bandwidth glut
On May 1st, 1997 In Technology
I sometimes wonder if the real issue of the information age isn't
right-of-way and the ability to dig a trench to lay fiber cable.
Someone recently told me that the current limiting factor in the
growth of the Internet is the ability of the manufacturers to make
multi-mode fiber cable. I have this weird vision where all of the train
tracks are