[LINK] digital black screen and absolute data lines

[Richard Chirgwin]

Picking up the other thread...
>
> Then on Red Symond's ABC radio show Friday morning, he was 
> interviewing a doctor about remote surgery to Mildura. Twice during 
> the interview, the mobile dropped out. Made for real confidence if you 
> were the one under the knife!
>
> During a bit of time the line stayed up, the Dr said the connection 
> wasn't mobile or 'internet' but a highspeed data line that wouldn't go 
> down that they got from Telstra. My thought as a way to be sure it 
> stayed up was to do every fifth surgery procedure using this magic 
> data line on Phil Burgess or Sol or the guy from Country-wide who 
> keeps telling us how good Next is. We'll see how comfortable the boys 
> are in their technology.
Why the scepticism, Jan? The data service will have been something 
boring and non-Internet, like a DDS, Frame Relay or ATM connection - 
well, I guess ATM may not be present in Mildura, but DDS and Frame Relay 
will be. Both of these have something that Internet services don't get - 
service level guarantees in the four-nines class or better.

Not all data is Internet data (in fact, at least the last time I looked, 
the private data services market was still slightly larger than the 
broadband market. It's just not as interesting).

RC

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