New Real-Time Internet Technology to Revitalize the Telecommunications Industry

Brighter days are ahead for the telecomunications and fiber optics industries. A revolutionary new technology is being rolled out by the XCP Consortium that will build the real-time internet, revitalize the sagging telecommunications sector, and simultaneously support the network monitoring requirements of the Department of Homeland Security.

Minneapolis, MN (PRWEB) April 1, 2004 --- Brighter days are ahead for the telecommunications and fiber optics industries. A revolutionary new technology is being rolled out by the XCP Consortium that will build the real-time internet, revitalize the sagging telecommunications sector, and simultaneously support the network monitoring requirements of the Department of Homeland Security.

On April 1st , the XCP Consortium released the first version of its XML Control Protocol specification and an open-source sample implementation. This protocol, when implemented by the Internet community, will single handedly increase the demand for backbone communications bandwidth and will achieve its goal to Light the Fiber" sm ! In a related announcement, the XCP Consortium and the Jabber Software Foundation (www.jabber.org) agreed to integrate XCP with their IETF-standard XMPP messaging protocol.

The telecommunications industry has been suffering from a sagging demand for the thousands of miles of fiber optic cable buried in the hey-day of the late 1990's and early 2000's. The XCP Consortium recognized that this dark fiber" could be better utilized as a channel for streaming the real-time internet -- with an added benefit of creating a need for even more of the fiber already in the ground.

The XML Control Protocol relies upon the popular eXtensible Markup Language (XML) to manage communications for client/server and peer-to-peer (P2P) applications. By relying upon XML, XCP preserves a more readily processable and scalable infrastructure that can make full advantage of the Internet's fiber optic backbone. In addition, the reliance upon XML will make it that much easier for organizations such as the Department of Homeland Security to examine content of communications (subject to appropriate approvals, of course).

Shane McCarron, Project Manager at the XCP Consortium stated The Internet was due for an overhaul. TCP was great when the network was slow and lossy. Now it is fast and extremely reliable. We can take advantage of that to optimize network traffic. The (XCP) protocol is a simple solution to a complex problem. I hope everyone gets it!"