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<font size="-1"><font face="Verdana">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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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<br>
<br>
As a result we have idiotic companies claiming Broadband service
supplying Kilobyte ( Calling them megabit ) sluggish connections and
charging people for through the wazzo.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
Don't believe me, call up any two senior government bureaucrats you
know and check it out.<br>
<br>
We will never make the world understand what a phenomenal problem we
have in connectivity unless this issue is once and for all tackled.<br>
<br>
One common measurement for the storage and transmission of data period
" the BYTE "<br>
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( : ( : pete<br>
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