Telecom Deregulation: One Year Later
When I wrote about the telecommunications deregulation act last year, I was looking forward to cost savings, better customer service and improved technologies to come--sooner than later (see CMP Network Computing
ReadMulticast's Coming! It's Really Coming!
Given the constant drone of Internet and Web media saturation that jams the airwaves these days, I can hardly blame you for being somewhat jaded. Consequently, I cannot blame you for ignoring most of the stuff either. After all, once the network infrastructure is built and a traffic-flow pattern is more or less established, the network architect's job is to keep the network running. Despite evidence to the contrary (the number of hours a week you're working), this job has gotten somewhat easier. The positive effect of standards and mass adoption of IP has been that applications come and go without constant intervention by network architects. From the architectural point of view, this is as the network gods intended it to be: As long as you obey the rules and conventions established for this network, you can put up any server or application you like. CMP Network Computing
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