[1st-mile-nm] Call it what is

[Bradley, Vince, DoIT]

Peter,

Very well said.........

Vince Bradley
State of NM/ RF/IT Engineer
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Sent: Tue Jan 15 13:33:50 2008
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Call it what is

One of the major hurdles, that will have to be overcome, to achieve REAL first mile connectivity, and hence long term high speed broadband goals is to for once and forever align storage calculations with transmission calculations.

We store digital data in megabytes and gigabytes and now terrabytes and soon petabytes but when this same data is transfered to anything the speed is measured in bits or 1/ 10 of the storage calculations, which are now transmitted measured in megabits = 1/10 megabyte / gigabit etc.

This enables the larger telcos to constantly  baffle washington claiming that current and future targets are just fine thank you, whats all the fuss about because they are purposely clouding the issue with stupid math

The IT industry is the only one in the world that measures is storage capacity in one calculation and then measures the movement of the same by dividing the factor by 10.

This is like saying my car gets 250 galobits to the mile or I walked 150 milobits today or my car cruises at 800 milobits per hour and is utterly insane

As a result we have idiotic companies claiming Broadband service supplying Kilobyte ( Calling them megabit ) sluggish connections and charging people for through the wazzo.

Having just completed a presentation to senior government officials who staunchly defended the point that a megabyte is the same as a megabit ( ably assisted by Qwest / ATT consultants ) I am constantly stunned at the amount of government officials and beuro planners regulating this industry and hence a huge amount of the public at large who flat out do not understand this. Hence the long term policy based on these decisions is totally doomed to fail.

Don't believe me, call up any two senior government bureaucrats you know and check it out.

We will never make the world understand what a phenomenal problem we have in connectivity unless this issue is once and for all tackled.

One common measurement for the storage and transmission of data period " the BYTE "

( : ( : pete


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