Twenty years ago last month, the start of rich media came out of the primordial IP ooze.
A little too dramatic? Maybe.
I was coping with Wall Street demanding I put in modem pools for them to dial into the Internet. Unlike my friends in the consumer world, like Tom Evslin who was developing AT&T’s world net, I had businesses that were trying to make my switch act like a private line. I had already had two switches fail because of dial up seizing the switch. One in Massachusetts failed completely thanks to TIAC and a snowy day. The other was attributed to PANIX and was taking roughly two minutes to generate a dial tone. All of this to reach some pictures, text and not a whole lot else.
If my switches were going to be the access point, the Internet would probably not progress very far.
However, the fate of my switches and their internetworking was doomed and the foreshadowing came thanks to Sprint’s adoption of Ciena’s Wavelength division multiplexing. Up to that point we were using glass, but the distance was not very good and the price of electronics as a repeater made very little sense. In my previous life I knew of the tandem connection between NJ Bell’s Newark Tandem and the MCI POP in West Orange that was using fiber and it was not pretty. With electronics in the manholes, you have to remember that water and electronics normally don’t mix well.
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