Many in our industry have dreamed of a unified network, and we continue to close in on it. But the truth is we’ve been closing in on it for quite a long time.
It reminds me of the quest for a unified field theory or “theory of everything” in physics. Just as it is extremely difficult to come up with one theory that explains everything, so it is also difficult to come up with one network that works everywhere and meets everyone’s needs.
Ethernet is bringing us closer than ever before. As Jim Metzler and Steve Taylor write in their WAN newsletter this week, Ethernet-based services, such as the one I mentioned two weeks ago, are raising interesting prospects. What if you could just plug your Ethernet cable into the wall and everything just worked,
just like plugging your phone line into a wall jack today? If Ethernet were everywhere, wouldn’t the world be much simpler?
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