http://venturebeat.disqus.com/News about Tech, Business and InnovationenMon, 16 Oct 2006 13:04:52 -0000http://venturebeat.com/2006/10/14/roundup-metrofi-connects-foster-city-gdrive-leak-ciscos-triple-threat/#comment-14668807<p>The devil is in the details? Is it possible that if the carriers can maintain 2 or more virtual Link Layers (a.k.a. VLAN) for the delivery of their content they might be safe from this patent litigation?</p><p>As per OSI the network Layer is Layer 3, the patent states "System and method for providing integrated voice, video and data to customer premises over a single network"</p><p>Is it really a single network if the Link Layer is not shared? a.k.a. different VLAN for each service?</p>Francesco CaggioniMon, 16 Oct 2006 13:04:52 -0000