{"id":74,"date":"2008-01-02T22:03:51","date_gmt":"2008-01-03T02:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.payne.org\/2008\/01\/02\/naked-dsl-just-give-me-a-big-fat-naked-ip-pipe-please\/"},"modified":"2019-12-27T08:54:36","modified_gmt":"2019-12-27T08:54:36","slug":"naked-dsl-just-give-me-a-big-fat-naked-ip-pipe-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/naked-dsl-just-give-me-a-big-fat-naked-ip-pipe-please\/","title":{"rendered":"“Naked DSL” — just give me a big fat, naked IP pipe, please"},"content":{"rendered":"

There have been several reports of AT&T’s “naked DSL” offering (i.e. DSL without the analog phone line), which apparently was condition to merge with BellSouth<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Anyone who understands IP technology knows where this ends:\u00a0\u00a0 we’ll just have fat IP pipes (DSL, fiber, cable modem — doesn’t matter).\u00a0 The latency will be low enough for real-time services, and the bandwidth will be high enough for video streaming.<\/p>\n

We’re almost<\/strong> there.<\/p>\n

I was setting up our vacation home last year: \u00a0 we’ve got fast broadband, who needs “digital cable”, a “set top box”, a “radio”, or an “analog phone line”?\u00a0 We can already download almost all of the audio and video we want to see.<\/p>\n

(I did have to give in on the phone; the freeze-alarm out-dial needs to work when the power’s out.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There have been several reports of AT&T’s “naked DSL” offering (i.e. DSL without the analog phone line), which apparently was condition to merge with BellSouth. Anyone who understands IP technology knows where this ends:\u00a0\u00a0 we’ll just have fat IP pipes … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":765,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions\/765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}