GrooveMaster: Re: It seems like there is an application for Embarq here would you agree?
No. I would disagree, at least partly. TCP and UDP are layer 3 (and up) protocols. According to NVEI, Embarq is a layer 1 (physical layer) technology and as such is completely unrelated and irrelevant to higher layers.
A high-speed, symmetrical broadband technology would definitely help with the problem. However, you seem to be missing a crucial point that is central to my assertions about Microsoft. Let me try to explain.
Microsoft (or any game box or STB manufacturer) would never be able to incorporate Embarq into their hardware. Embarq (assuming it even exists) would be a proprietary transmission protocol that the telco would have to have incorporated into its customer premise equipment (CPE) and its central office (CO) equipment. As with any other communications chipsets, you have to have matching chips on each end.
It would do no good, for example, to have an Embarq-equipped Xbox in your home if the DSLAM at the CO for your broadband provider did not have a corresponding Embarq chip to decode the transmission. Communications chipsets go into communications company devices, not consumer devices.
Communications chipsets, whether from Infineon, Alcatel, Texas Instruments, or NVEI, are sold to telco equipment manufacturers in pairs - so to speak. The equipment manufacturers produce modems for CPE in the home and line cards for DSLAMs at the CO. A telco then buys the whole package - equipment for the central office, and matching equipment for the CPE. The consumer, when he purchases broadband service, gets a modem from the provider that works with the line cards installed at the CO. These are the only two devices that use physical-layer communications chipsets.
An Xbox, for example, does not use communications chipsets - at least on the physical layer level. (some game consoles have built-in wireless, and ethernet, but that is irrelevant) They simply send data to the modem. It is the modem, and its chipset, along with the line card in the DSLAM and its corresponding chipset that negotiate the high-speed transmission.
I hope that was clear. Microsoft will not put Embarq in its Xbox because they can't. It is the wrong device for a communications chipset to go into. The only way that Microsoft would have any interest in Embarq would be if it were interested in entering the telco equipment manufacturing business.
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