MaxSNR provides a very poor QoS in groups 2, 5, and 6, that is, when delay requirements are stringent and the path loss or the source bit rate is high.
A comprehensive fix has to start with very stringent border control and some path to citizenship that is not automatic.
Such requirements include those related to high performance, large scale data volume transport, dynamic provisioning, path flexibility, and stringent determinism for all service parameters.
Davies said Thurlbeck was full of remorse over his unlawful activities and had changed his path and "embraced a stringent moral code by which to live in the future".
What we really need is a better theoretical idea, but while we are waiting for inspiration, a prudent path is to devise more stringent tests to pin it down.
In "harmonising" business regulation, the EU seems set on a path of imposing the most stringent rules on all countries, rather than seeking the minimum level of regulation acceptable to all, or even moving towards the average.
However, as discussed above, the presence of technological path dependencies and lack of stringent climate policy framework conditions limit incentives for structural change.
An alternative approach that was helpful for some firms was to develop a secondary product line that was subject to less stringent regulatory hurdles and, thus, had an easier path to market.
Of course this is a stringent view.
"There will be no more smoothing of companies' pension costs," says Alan Rubenstein at Morgan Stanley.Pushed by weak equity markets and more stringent accounting rules, Britain is likely to follow the American path of 20 years ago.
