We have direct peerings for services like voice, and IX'es for the big data providers. But at that scale I think it'd flatten at least one of our gateway providers, even with wire-speed ACLs and big routing hardware.

I'd be very curious what Microsoft did.

This might help the next generation of users, but Broadcom blowing up the VMware SME market with huge license fees has already done its damage.

Proxmox is free, uses KVM under the hood, and easily installed on commodity hardware. Gonna be hard winning back market share from that.

Come-on, we already know they'll just raise prices another 10% to address this. It's just another straight-to-consumer tax under the auspices or taming corporations.

Yeah, our public time server gets absolutely hammered when Amazon users en masse decide to use it.

You'd think for such a large company they'd be hosting common infrastructure (like mirrors) for the betterment of the internet. That little thing they're making *billions* from.

We try so hard to America that our lawyers are graduating from the Costco school of not reading so good.

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I think that's very provider/hardware dependent. We get compliments all the time about call latency and quality, but we're also the ISP in many cases and have direct peerings with a number of local telcos. Media takes a short path, and ideally is IP based all the way to the endpoint.

And just because traffic isn't VoIP doesn't mean it isn't switched. PRI/T1 operates on a timer, as did a bunch of older cell networks.

As with all things, ymmv. I do appreciate some of the "old days" hardware though, the reason that ancient Nortel is still running a rural network is because it has survivability measured in Nokia 3310's.

They do. Poles are hopefully a little too scary for them, but people cutting into any kind of conduit for copper scrap is fairly common.

We've had it happen in buildings & multi-complexes, and just last month a major backhaul to northern Alberta was cut that serviced several providers.

Both times the thieves made off with nothing because it was fibre. But the damage is a costly pain in the ass.

Solid 90%. There's still some rural/older areas in Canada/USA that are using older switches, but pretty much anything urban (or passing a major CO) is probably converted to VoIP at some point. The rest of the world is probably fairly similar: upgraded to voip, waiting for an upgrade cycle, or waiting for some cheap used DSLAMs to get retired here.

So, not all calls, but close.

There may not be a reseller. Avaya ain't cheap.

It's the old joke: "$88m, what will they do with their 5 line PBX?"

Microsoft realized their invasive OS adware was beginning to compete with HPs.

Universal drivers are great, but this almost certainly a fight for eyeball time.

Now do modern farming equipment!

So what you're saying is I need an Amazon Faraday cage for my wifi router *AND* my diet coke!

I don't find the image quality bad at all. The Quest 2 is a comfortable headset with enough pixels for gaming, at least for me. Maybe 8k would start to make it a viable work screen replacement?

Outside of the initial wow factor though there's still very little software that's compelling enough to set-up a play space. With the little non-work screen time I get I'll watch a movie with the wife (whose controllers are way more interactive). The kids would rather jump on a tablet/laptop and screw around in Roblox (or Roblox Studio) for an hour with their friends.

I'd use edit specifically for fat fingered tweeting and Google voice snafus. If I can't do that I'll stick with delete and re-post.

The only "maybe" convincing argument is that ownership provides perks with the token. I've seen mentions about exclusive access to clubs, restaurants, etc.. That makes sense, but for the million dollar price tags this marketplace feels like a gold rush, but the gold is ephemeral at best.

So, it has a purpose like a VIP card. Would I buy NFTs right now? No.