Whose Network is it Anyway- April 14, 2007 In reading a Q&A with Verizon's Brian Whitten I found this striking Q and A:Q. With a fiber connection being symmetric, many fiber providers such as Paxio (www.paxio.net) are providing symmetric connections such as 5Mbit, 10Mbit, 30Mbit. Why is Verizon keeping this arbitrary asymmetric limit with FiberA. Our products are carefully crafted based on feedback we get from our customers. Indeed, our FTTP network can easily support a symmetric data service. As market dynamics change, we would...http://www.satn.org/2007_04_08_archive.html#117652785583939997 Homeland Insecurity911 vs the concept of the Internet- April 11, 2007 Now that I can quickly post I might as well take advantage of it to quickly respond to Senators mull new taxes to fund 911 Net upgrade. Once again we have a fundamental failure to understand the basic concepts of Internet and instead assume there is a magical thing called "telecommunications" which provides us with the one solution to all problems. I keep point out that we are confusing the conversation (communications) with the transport of bits (the tele part). The absurdity should become...http://www.satn.org/2007_04_08_archive.html#117632313171606585 Forget about it and Oyffice 2k7- April 11, 2007 I feel compelled to try out the new blogging capability in Office 2007. While the new version is pretty I'm still trying to get back to where I was it seems as if it has more built in capabilities but it's not at all obvious how to do many of the things my way. This includes blogging it's nice that it's easy to go to "blogger" but how do I post to http:www.frankston.com instead of http:www.satn.org.I presume I'll get used to the new version but it's also a reminder that this is a very late...http://www.satn.org/2007_04_08_archive.html#117632095768092421 |