I wonder how far we should take this. TCP/IP training for all Congressmen? How about including detailed briefings of how MPLS works as well?
Actually the tubes metaphor is closer (particularly regarding MPLS backbones) than people are willing to accept both because of the pipe metaphor (a socket being two pipes) and the use of label switching (which acts logically as a big series of pipes).
And along these lines, bandwidth was originally a technical term in plumbing.....
The complaint here is not so much that they don't know, but that they're unwilling to consult anyone who does before making a decision.
And 'bandwidth' is a technical term from electrical engineering that refers to the width of the frequency band that is usable in a communications system, to which the information rate is directly proportional. There is no way it originally came from plumbing.
Perhaps they should exercise their right to abstain from voting if they're being asked to weigh in on a subject they don't, can't, or are unwilling to understand.
Actually the tubes metaphor is closer (particularly regarding MPLS backbones) than people are willing to accept both because of the pipe metaphor (a socket being two pipes) and the use of label switching (which acts logically as a big series of pipes).
And along these lines, bandwidth was originally a technical term in plumbing.....