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US National Broadband Plan
Resources and discussion of the US National Broadband Plan. Every American has a stake & is called to contribute via the FCC by June 8, 2009
Columbus III and Xtera to upgrade Southern US/Europe SLTE links to (n) X 20 Gbit/s DPSK
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Would you like 50Mbps broadband for $49.95? Move to Monticello, Minnesota. - http://www.telecompetitor.com/tds-lau...
"Monticello, Minnesota"
- Jay Cuthrell
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FairPoint files for Chapter 11 to reduce debt by $1.7B - http://charlotte.bizjournals.com/charlot...
Interesting speculation on AT&T Wireless data congestion #fb - http://blogs.broughturner.com/2009...
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Ponder: goals/coverage/perception of lifelinesupport.org vs. safelinkwireless.com
Cisco study reveals people -use- broadband #shock #dismay #quelle #horreur - http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls...
beware of the evils of social networking and video sharing!!!
- Jay Cuthrell
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THE WINNER OF SHINE A LIGHT IS: Sacred Wind! #Navajo #Tribe #Poverty #fb - http://shinealight.ivillage.com/sbo-pro...
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Thank you to everyone who voted!!!
- Jay Cuthrell
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ARIN Advisory Council: Equitable IPv4 Run-Out - http://lists.arin.net/piperma...
Last day to vote for Sacred Wind #Navajo #Tribe #Poverty #fb - http://shinealight.ivillage.com/sbo-pro...
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Down to the wire!!! If you see this in your FF stream and have not already voted -- please -- take 30 seconds to vote and take another 30 seconds to spread the word for Sacred Wind and the Navajo Tribe. Your minute can mean a lot more than you think. Thanks -- Jay
- Jay Cuthrell
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BBC article on ISP's, file-sharing, open wi-fi, guilt, and meaningless security acronyms - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2...
Ah yes, @Nemertes "research" and the #Exaflood gets called out finally - http://www.dslreports.com/forum...
Reference - Nemertes Still Pushing Exaflood Nonsense - http://www.dslreports.com/shownew...
- Jay Cuthrell
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Time Warner challenges Sprint in Triangle 4G race (was AT&T ever in it?) - http://triangle.bizjournals.com/triangl...
Please vote now for Sacred Wind #Navajo #Tribe #Poverty #fb - http://shinealight.ivillage.com/sbo-pro...
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If you see this in your FF stream -- please -- take 30 seconds to vote and take another 30 seconds to spread the word for Sacred Wind and the Navajo Tribe. Your minute can mean a lot more than you think. Thanks -- Jay
- Jay Cuthrell
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New iPhone Application Provides Work to Refugees (via @samasource and crowdflower.com) #fb - http://www.prweb.com/release...
Both CrowdFlower and SamaSource were at TechCrunch50 -- this is exactly the kind of mashup that moves the collective needle for good.
- Jay Cuthrell
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Gates Foundation mulls nationwide fiber-optic wiring of _123k_ public institutions #fibertails #ftth #ftti #bip #btop - http://blog.seattlepi.com/microso...
The @TelcoTV Conference pages are updated. I'm on the "Dumb Pipe Strategy" panel #telcotv #fb - https://www.cmpevents.com/LRTV09...
Dumb Pipe Strategy: Does it Have Merit?
- Jay Cuthrell
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If you have anything you'd like to see asked during this panel -- post it here and I'll relay the ensuing fisticuffs.
- Jay Cuthrell
Mid-Atlantic Broadband Cooperative (MBC) Coverage Maps - http://mbc-va.com/coverag...
Please RT and vote for Sacred Wind: "Navajo Tribe Connection to Outside World" - http://shinealight.ivillage.com/sbo-pro...
Joho the Blog » Why up is slower than down - http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger...
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"So, the answer to the overall question is that physics requires an apportioning of bandwidth between up and down, but economics can here route around physics: If a provider were committed to providing symmetry without lowering download speeds, it could have (for example) put in a second line when it put in the first. The trade-offs were made by the access providers, largely based on business concerns. For example, one reason we have asymmetric fiber may be that the providers have been charging such high premiums for symmetric access that they don’t want to lose that extra money, even as the technology makes symmetry more plausible. So, as was said by David Isenberg (who gave me permission to credit him): “Asymmetry is a belief system. The purveyors of connections looked at the Internet and saw TV, then acted according to what they saw.” That’s the infrastructure they built. That’s the infrastructure we’re currently stuck with. If we can get unstuck, we might at long last get ourselves some symmetry…or have broad enough broadband that symmetry doesn’t even matter."
- Jason Wehmhoener
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Even if you think of the Internet as a participatory medium, most social services are reflectors. One upload can be many downloads, and there's no reason to host the social service itself in someone's home, so asymmetric residential bandwidth makes sense to me. Even this here comment will be uploaded once (by me) and downloaded several times (by whoever subscribes to Jason's or my feed and happens to check FF).
- ⓞnor
Yep. There are degrees between the extremes though. Having upstream capability is something we have less experience with, but I can think of a few applications off the top of my head. Video teleconferencing is an obvious one.
- Jason Wehmhoener
Do you think the current degree of asymmetry is limiting for most residential broadband users? I don't think it really is, even for people into video uploads or chat. Upload speeds aren't what stops me from sending more video, it's more that it's fiddly to get working and (more importantly) I guess I don't really want to. Even if static IPs and symmetric bandwidth were widespread, I think it would still make more sense for people who want to run web sites to use cheap web hosting providers.
- ⓞnor
I don't think it's limiting given typical current usage. It could be limiting for unanticipated usage, or expansion of certain current niche uses. I am a heavy telecommuter and therefore heavy user of screen sharing. We feel acutely the limits of our individual connections during our meetings. The problem would be more acute if we were doing HD video teleconferencing.
- Jason Wehmhoener
The article is spinning asymmetric broadband as part of the narrative of Evil Television vs. Good Internet, and I don't think it's really that way -- I think everyone forgot about "interactive TV" long ago and they're just building for actual demand. The article also misses the technological point that some network technologies (Ethernet, wi-fi) reapportion bandwidth dynamically to whichever endpoint wants to transmit; others (fiber, 3G wireless) are statically divided into upload and download lanes.
- ⓞnor
It would be pretty cool if we could all have metro ethernet to our homes. ;-)
- Jason Wehmhoener
Or just some sort of mesh with good ad-hoc routing protocols. But community meshes never took off for some reason. Well, I guess the reason is that commercial broadband is cheap and convenient enough to keep a mesh from ever reaching critical mass.
- ⓞnor
Outdoor WIFI has serious noise floor problems in populated areas. It has more to do with noise than a lack of need. My fingers are crossed for WiMax (that it won't be plagued with similar problems).
- Jason Wehmhoener
Can I run my own WiMax cell?
- ⓞnor
Early days for 802.16e. It's being positioned as more of a carrier technology for backhaul, or possibly as a 4G telecom technology. However, here's a 2005 article about home based mesh networking using WiMax: http://74.125.155.132/search... I haven't really done...
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- Jason Wehmhoener
This is interesting: http://www.linuxwimax.org/
- Jason Wehmhoener
Vint Cerf responds to Genachowski speech on Broadband and Net Neutrality. http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2009...
I'm presenting "2010: A Service Provider Odyssey" shortly (via http://friendfeed.com/qthrul...)
FORA.tv - Empowering Internet Users: Two Ideas to Reshape Broadband - http://fora.tv/2009...
Atlanta-based start-up Skitter TV enters the over-the-top (OTT) "video for telco" race - http://www.skitter.tv/content/
Fwd: Chairman Genachowski on Broadband Access in San Francisco - http://www.youtube.com/watch... (via http://friendfeed.com/webmave...)
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Fwd: Gov 2.0 Summit 09: Julius Genachowski, "Broadband as Platform" - http://www.youtube.com/watch... (via http://friendfeed.com/oreilly...)
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Cyan Z-Series for scaling in 10Gbps markets (might push other players to 100Gbps faster?) - http://www.cyanoptics.com/cyan-z-...
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The "idea" section of FCC's Broadband.gov is powered by @IdeaScale (currently 30 ideas) - http://broadband.ideascale.com/
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Windstream to Acquire Lexcom for $141M in cash (via @Telecompetitor) - http://www.telecompetitor.com/windstr...
I don't think there is a provision in the broadband stimulus for performance-enhancing seeds (yet) - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2...
Stuff this in your BTOP BIP: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2... Go Winston!
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