I have two lines one domestic the other business, both were interrupted by the electrician playing with the RCD but only the domestic line went onto interleaving. They both lines have near identical line stats so I'm slightly confused about whether DLM is deactivated or not.
The domestic line will be on a different SVLAN to the business line and will have different QoS priorities. Although how this would make a difference Im unsure. I certainly think that the headline quotes of "RAMBo being shut down is inaccurate" as that implies the whole system has been shut down, which I dont believe it has. Some parts could very well still be active. For example the
Additional line monitoring process isnt any part of the patent infringement nor is the
RAP Function to name a few.
In fact the more depth I was reading last night about the patent infringement case, the more I began to realise what a complete farce it was.
ASSIA were claiming several breaches for many aspects of standard dsl technology that pre-date their patent. Some of the points and arguments were just plain laughable, such as 'history' and using stacks to hold data. I also read something that implied ASSIA werent just after BT but a couple of other European Telco's who also use DLM, but BT is their big target which is going to make the news.
I must stress I didnt read it all, because it really did become petty, I got bored and it got late. The UK law states that a patent must be a novel invention and will not include computer programming of software. Yet in this case we had ASSIA moaning that BT also used stacks to hold historic data... like how the hell else are you supposed to efficiently store data that you want to drop after x period of time
Reading between the lines, BT could not patent their code under
UK law... but the US is different.
Globally, the extent to which patent law should allow the granting of patents involving software (often referred to as "software patents") is controversial and also hotly debated
