Oren wrote:

Isn't that just brilliant fiber vs. BPL?

I have seen INET2 fiber in action and it is awesome.

And where was that?

verizon will have fiber optics to my house by next year, this is
nothing new
many have been on f.o. for a long time...

imagine downlading a 2 hour full HDTV movie in less than 1 minute

I get an HDTV, by turning on the TV.

because the infrastructure isn't ther to support the 2.5G bandwidth to

Again we don't need your HTML bull****.

uh.. that's not HTML, further he is saying mass network packet sniffing
units will have to be put into place, which is a short way of saying
Address translation is when a host starts an outbound connection, the
IP addresses in the internal network are translated into global
addresses. Address translation protects these addresses from visibility
on the external network. Different types of address translation are
used for this purpose.

and this is only to nail down security against the tyranies of evil
men...

further: Another concept that relates to address translation is
referred to as Bi-Directional NAT. Normal address translation allows an
address at an interface with a higher security level to be translated
to an address at an interface with a lower security level. With
Bi-Directional NAT, you can now translate an address at an interface
with a lower security level to an address at an interface with a higher
security level.

but this has been tried without much satisfaction, it's the old goin
cum bleed or blister approach, in the end they found it was not enough
juice for the squeeze...

just too many parameters to discuss right now like

Negotiating tunnel parameters-Addresses, algorithms, lifetime, and so
on.
Establishing tunnels according to the parameters.
Authenticating users-Making sure users are who they say they are, by
way of usernames, group names and passwords, and X.509 digital
certificates.
Establishing user access rights-Hours of access, connection time,
allowed destinations, allowed protocols, and so on.
Managing security keys for encryption and decryption.
Authenticating, encrypting, and decrypting data through the tunnel.

that sort of thing

but I think they can still make it work with web tv, that way you don't
have to get out of your rump sprung chair.