Good to know that completely ridiculous patent claims aren't being upheld.

I would highly agree with the parent. As someone who works on next generation high speed networks, applications like high-def video on demand or having file servers that work as fast as they would on your home lan is a big big plus. One of our goals in the academic community is to reduce duplication of resources by making the network so fast that resources that are sharable are equally fast for anyone to access. For that sort of thing, having true symmetric very high speed connections (over 100Mbit/s) is what we're aiming at.