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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 17/09/2013 8:47 PM, Tim McCullagh
wrote:<br>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">No more need to Government
assistance to the car industry as they will then have the
economies of scale, put aside the issue of whether those are
the cars we want to buy in the same way as the nbn is
providing an asyncronous service when I want a syncronous
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asymmetric and symmetric dammit - not asynchronous and synchronous!
Timing and clocking has nothing to do with it. Synchronous vs
asynchronous was the SDH vs ATM wars of the 1980s.<br>
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(sorry Tim :-) - every time I hear someone say "Asynchronous Digital
Subscriber Line" I grind another tooth off)<br>
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(ob-charter - this might be the only operations-relevant post on
AusNOG this evening!)<br>
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P.<br>
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