hedley's Journal: In the limit

As the telecom space continues to melt down and as the good engineers at these places go on the dole or find work in other non-telecom fields, who is going to make these switches hubs and routers when, in the limit, those legacy ports start going dark? Technology is momemtum based, left unattended, it will slip back into the primordial ooze and we will be reinventing the vacuum tube. Hmmm an edge router made from vacuum tubes...