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[riontel]

October 29, 2008 (Computerworld) WALTHAM, Mass. -- "For nearly two weeks, dozens of network engineers have been holed up in a lab in this Boston suburb, working around the clock and slurping coffee as they crunch numbers to further the cause of network interoperability."

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=protocols_and_standards&articleId=9118503&taxonomyId=141&intsrc=kc_top
http://www.xchangemag.com/hotnews/global-msf-event-ims-standards.html
http://telephonyonline.com/ims/news/linking-ims-iptv-1030/

Comments

[a-lazy-legend.livejournal.com]

Washing down crunchy numbers with coffee? Sounds perverse.

[w-pooh.livejournal.com]

Yeah... They should definitely use hard liquors instead.

[riontel.livejournal.com]

This just illustrates why you should never believe anything written by journalists. What type of numbers could network engineers testing protocol interop be crunching? Subnets?