By Doug Mohney, on April 18th, 2010
Verizon Business (www.verizonbusiness.com) announced enhancements to its cloud computing offering and dedicated delivery pipes for large content providers; Verizon is bragging about “flowing” up to half a terabyte per second from Internet and video content owners directly onto its network.
Verizon Computing as a Service (CaaS) now supports server cloning for rapid deployment of multiple services [...]
By Doug Mohney, on March 3rd, 2010
With members of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) flitting about dropping the broad outline of what a national broadband strategy could encompass, it is clear some service providers are much better positioned than others to live up to a goal of 100 Mbps in 100 million homes by 2020. Others are clearly scared and above [...]
By Doug Mohney, on February 10th, 2010
Google (www.google.com) says they’re going to invest in an “experimental” gigabit to the home network for anywhere between 50,000 to 500,000 subscribers. Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t this the same Google that said they were going to bid on 700 MHz wireless spectrum a couple of years ago?
Let’s look at the details on [...]
By Doug Mohney, on October 28th, 2009
If you weren’t worried enough about getting your H1N1 shot, now the Government Accountability Office (GAO) has sounded the alarm about The Internet blowing a fuse from a sudden influx of daytime telecommuting workers bogging down broadband links, causing bottlenecks and slowdowns. It could get so bad as to slow down Securities industry trading during [...]
By Doug Mohney, on May 12th, 2009
Yesterday, the Senate Commerce Committee announced it would hold a confirmation hearing for Mr. G, Julius Genachowski, to move forward on his nomination to be chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
Today, the hearing was canceled.
If you are asking “WTF?,” join the club.
Apparently, says a Wall Street Journal blog and various other mutterings of sources [...]
By Doug Mohney, on May 8th, 2009
My other piece on Cox DOCSIS 3.0 service:
Cox DOCSIS 3.0 high-speed cable service delivers – but will your home gear?
Some quick and dirty pictures of what I’m using to trial/beta Cox’s 50/5 Mbps DOCSIS 3.0 cable modem service.
Test configuration – Linksys WRT310N router and Cisco DPC3000 DOCSIS 3.0 cable modem
You’ll note brother CPE here, [...]