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Comcast revealed last year that it intended to deliver a special high speed option for Internet service at up to 105Mb/s. An article in USA Today reports: “Extreme 105, [will be] available to consumers in more than 40 million homes in San Francisco, Seattle, Denver, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., and Miami, among others. The […]
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**Note: all links no longer work and have been removed (sorry) On Friday, by a vote of 240-179 (click here to see how the individual representatives voted), the US House of Representatives passed H.J. Res. 37, which will stop the open Internet rules adopted by the FCC in December 2010. By using the Congressional Review
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As the terms cloud computing, cloud storage and cloud networking have become second nature to most IT people these days, not everyone understands one of the key issues for anything cloud is the Real Time performance and design of cloud infrastructure. I have been preaching the real time nature of everything we do in networking
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Virtualization is not a new concept. If you were to look at our Internet History Wiki, in the year 1972 you would read: The first version of the VM (virtual machine)/CMS) which refers to a family of IBM virtual machine operating systems used on IBM mainframes System/370, System/390, zSeries, System z and compatible systems, including
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Back in September of 2009, we launched the CellStream On-Line School (www.cellstream.com/netsci). Just this month, we gave the Online School a new name and a direct link: The Online School of Network Sciences found at http://www.netscionline.com Since that time the school has become a busy place, and the content continues to expand. Combining broadband and
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If you have ever traveled to India you know what I mean by my observation that there are a LOT of people that live in India. According to the World Bank, the India population was almost 1.2 Billion in 2010 (compared to US population of just over 300 million in July 2011). India is on
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We received a request from one of our visitors to explain the following article on the Internet: http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/sout … w-internet Our response was: Hi! Well, actually yes, I think so. It appears from the report (if all factual), that little Winston was quite a flyer! According to the article: “Winston the pigeon, who last year
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It is not news that people are cutting the cable to video services. According to studies by Oriella PR Network, the loss of viewers and listeners for print/tv/radio was 26.33% in 2010, and this shows no sign of stopping in 2011. Advertising income is also down 22.03%. The number of print publications/radio/TV Channels that are
Check out these additional IPv6 Resources: Our IPv6 overview course at Udemy Our IPv6 Custom Profiles for Wireshark Our IPv6 classes at the Online School I don’t ever like to attempt to look into a crystal ball and predict the future. At best, I would expect my success to be no improvement on using a
China’s CERNET2 IPv6 Network Will Likely Be the Largest Read More »
In this week’s news, a PR Firm called Burson-Marsteller admitted they were hired by Facebook to smear Google’s Social Circle via an alleged whisper campaign claiming the service violated user privacy rights. Both the PR Firm and Facebook later apologized for the action. Tisk Tisk, bad Facebook. It is not clear whether any of this
Filtered Search Results – Privacy vs. Information Tailored for You Read More »
Absolute Genius! When most kids are taught electricity in 3rd and 4th grade science lab experiments, they are introduced to concepts using unfamiliar electrical components. Most of these things have never been touched and they seem foreign and complicated. Like others, I believe that this causes a learning gap. This gap has been completely obliterated
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This from the FCC yesterday: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:March 21, 2011 Washington, D.C. – The Federal Communications Commission has released its latest reports on Internet access service connections and telephone subscribership in the U.S. Titled Internet Access Services and Local Telephone Competition, the two reports are based on data submitted by carriers every six months on
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My recent post on the evolution of the telephone has raised much interest, but I am also seeing and predicting that the Central Office is undergoing and will undergo changes that are just as radical. As I said in the prior post, these changes are difficult to envision and agree with at times, especially for
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As Thanksgiving 2010 quickly approaches, we are reminded to give thanks for everything we have, no matter how small. This requires that you look back and consider where you have been and what you have accomplished. Understandably, the memories aren’t all that great in every case. Nevertheless, in this mode I was considering the past
The BBS – Bulletin Board System – Before App Stores and Email Read More »
Check out these additional IPv6 Resources: Our IPv6 overview course at Udemy Our IPv6 Custom Profiles for Wireshark Our IPv6 classes at the Online School It should be no surprise to anyone reading this article that the next generation IPv6 protocol is being exploited by hackers and attackers just like its predecessor IPv4. If you
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