DSL Prime
“Look Out Google Fiber, $35-A-Month Gigabit Internet Comes to Vermont” Wall Street Journal discovers Vermont is the fastest state. http://on.wsj.com/1848tWZ Michel Guite at Vermontel charges only $35 for a true gigabit, upstream and down. That’s not a ... more |
Lantiq Sampling 3x3 MIMO for Faster VDSL GatewaysSupporting existing VDSL chip, extending bonding. Imran Hajimusa of Lantiq had a great demo of 4 HD channels streaming over WiFi a while back. They are ... more |
60 Down, 18 Up as VDSL comes to France Many lines do not significantly improve. As predicted, ARCEP is allowing French networks to upgrade to VDSL2. Free.fr has been using VDSL chips in DSLAMs and ... more |
In DC: Are There Any New Ideas For Broadband?ISOC DC forum Friday April 26. Livestreamed from 9 a.m. D.C. time. https://new.livestream.com/internetsociety/dc-broadband I hate boring events where advocates repeat things often said before. I’m moderating an ... more |
Wireless Cloud
$10 Qualcomm Quadcores will Push $99 Phones Past iPhone 4 $99 for perfectly fine web surfing. Qualcomm, a top tier vendor, has dropped prices of an quadcore mobile below $10 in China according to Digitimes h... more |
Confirmed: Wireless Data Growth Rapidly SlowingCisco and Washington estimates much too high. The almost unbelievable 100% per year growth in wireless traffic is over, with the growth in 2012 down to ... more |
White Spaces in Real Deployment Often 3 meg when no other technology works. Ken Garnett at Cal.net has been serving heavily forested Northern California since 2006, forested country where many couldn’t get ... more |
Smartphone Wars: $50 in China for iPhone 4 PerformanceSmartphones cheap enough for the poor are changing the world. Africa in a few years will have more Internet users than the United States. So will ... more |
Fiber News
Sony's "2 Gig" Network Good Ole GPON + Better Home Connection2.4 gig split 32 ways = 2 gig to each? There’s no new technology in Sony’s “2 gigabit download” Nuro service in Japan, I originally wrote. ... more |
Gigabit Easy with GPON and 10G PON for Decades Harstead and Sharpe of Alcatel base forecast on conservative traffic projections. 10’s of millions of homes, including millions at Verizon, have GPON connections easily capable of ... more |
The French Secret: Fiber Will Happen Because the Ducts Have Room No digging most places per France TelecomMarc Lebourges of France Telecom writes “there is enough availability in existing ducts toaccommodate fibre deployment” in France. That’s not ... more |
Britain’s Gigabit: $40-$80/month Gigler/CityFibre in Bournemouth matches Google’s price21,000 homes in England are being offered a true gigabit down, 500 megabit up, low ping fiber connection at a price si... more |
DOCSIS Report Cable
How it Works: Gigabit Cable Coming in 2013-2014. Downstream only.Standard cable coax systems have a total capacity of 4.7 gigabits when used just for data. Most of the bandwidth today is used for TV. As ... more |
Gigabit Cable Modems Coming to Market at SCTEHitron’s ready for CableLabs Certification. By this time next year, some cable companies will be offering 600 megabit-1 gigabit (shared) downloads. ARRIS and Hitron both showed 16-24 ... more |
Samueli: Another Good Decade for Moore’s LawAfter that, breakthroughs required. Henry Samueli, latest recipient of the $100,000 Marconi Award, was a DSL pioneer before he and Henry Nicholas went on to build ... more |
Gigabit Cable CloseSimple, straightforward, and not terribly expensive John Chapman has been promising since 2005 to deliver a gigabit over cable. Nobody but the engineers believed him then ... more |
Internet & Television
HD Headed Under 2 Megabits: H.265 High Efficiency Video Coding 4K Ultra HD also coming, for sets over 100 inches. Those who think we need 50 meg and more for home TV haven't been tracking the ... more |
HD TV Over Home Wireless in Everyday Use at SwisscomSaving a $200-$400 truckroll? Vendors have been promising for years video quality wireless around the home, but Swisscom is the first Western carrier to offer a ... more |
$40 IPTV Set Tops, Quantity 3 MillionWith basic IPTV selling for less than $3/month, China Telecom can't afford an expensive set top. To bring prices down, they are requesting bids for 2.83 ml... more |
Cordcutters: Roku, WD, Playstation or ??We made a mistake buying the Roku box. It's great for Netflix, but doesn't play AVI's and other common formats I get often. Dan Rayburn, the ... more |
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Policy
Times on Wheeler "An Industry Man for the F.C.C."Time to answer questions. "President Obama has picked a former telecommunications lobbyist and campaign fund-raiser to serve as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, raising serious ... more |
AT&T Lobbyist Patton Boggs Fires 65 Following the money is basic to understanding telco power. They are “Washington’s largest and most profitable lobby shop” but just took a huge layoff. 18 partners have ... more |
BTOP Triumph: 3 Ring Binder Fiber Complete in Maine On schedule, truly open, reaching unserved. “I’m going to bake us a cake,” promised a woman in Big Lake Township, who proceeded to hug Tim McAfee of... more |
The Right Question: Ambassador Terry KramerAsk ITU/WCIT Ambassador Terry Kramer: How does the U.S. convince the world “bottom-up multi-stakeholder” doesn’t really mean dominance by a few large corporations? (The Right Question)Who: Terry ... more |
