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Intel to publicly back municipal broadband
Talkback One thing needs to be clear about these municipal owned fiber networks. So Verizon, if they choose to, still can provide service through these fiber networks competing against other providers. These network infrastructure is just an infrastructure.
About: Intel to publicly back municipal broadband
[January 13, 2005, 14:12]
here what I found out
Talkback Yea yea, I know that BT's official line was to avoid fiber optics for the next 20years, then this new (and young) chappy was made boss and with Virgin rolling out fiber optics suddenly BT found 1.5BN to spend on this, which is on the cheap.
About: Report maps out Britain's broadband future
[September 15, 2008, 10:31 by trinity33]
Quantum cryptography becoming mainstream
Talkback Quantum Crypto will never become mainstream, because it relies on a dark fiber end-to-end connection, i.e.no active optical elements (like repeaters, multiplexers, etc.which you don't have and won't have.
About: Quantum cryptography becoming mainstream
[February 8, 2005, 17:44]
SiO2 is cheaper than Cu
Talkback They were already anticipating that every signal passed between "integrated circuits" would be handled by glass fiber and that circuit boards would become mostly something used to connect power to the chips.
About: Dialogue Box 7.7: A first look at USB 3.0
[December 18, 2009, 7:00 by Xwindowsjunkie]
well..
Talkback Thats not always entirely true, about 10+ years ago Comcast started to lay fiber cabs to the streets in north Yorkshire, my guess is that the local councils in these areas demanded less money than London borough councils wanted from the company.
About: London to get first BT brownfield FTTH trial
[August 10, 2009, 22:02 by CA]
RE: Toshiba developing quantum repeater
Blog Comment Good plan with with the fiber optics. Once they are in place, it would be worth thinking about the satellites. The problem is, that satellites can now be held to ransom up there in space, with the added bonus of plausible deniability, not to...
[October 16, 2008, 20:26 by roger andre]
The Limits to Bandwidth
Talkback We effectively have fiber to the exchange (BT and BSkyB) The limits on bandwidth, is in the aspirations of the telecom companies, as Japan has demonstrated. The current limits to bandwidth (in the UK) are the copper local loop.
About: Unlimited-broadband offers to go 'within a year'
[March 17, 2008, 15:32 by D Tomlinson]
Nonsense: The Bandwidth Party continues.
Talkback Technological progress and optical fiber ensure that sufficent bandwidth is available. People get paid for these opinions ? The statements on bandwidth are simply not true and never have been true. Bandwidth growth is 40% p.a.in the USA.
About: Unlimited-broadband offers to go 'within a year'
[March 17, 2008, 12:21 by D Tomlinson]
These write life spans...
Talkback Are what are stopping me from investing in these drives, not to mention the very little bang for a large buck, wish they would hurry up and release there optical infared fiber to replace the Sata connections.
About: Intel pulls SSD firmware over Windows 7 clash
[October 28, 2009, 17:00 by CA]
BT halves business broadband start-up cost
Talkback Our connection is a full 2mb leased line over fiber. The company i work for has a leased line. We buy from a different company. I would say, that this is to little to late from BT. BT are still using copper.
About: BT halves business broadband start-up cost
[July 23, 2004, 10:54]
Dragging the Oilfield into the 21st Century
Blog Fiber optic cable, although used previously on off-shore rigs, has become a standard inventory product offering by all the marine cable manufacturers. That doesn't sound like a big deal until you know that the fiber optic cable has to be jacketed...
[May 6, 2009, 15:13 in Home Server Projects by Xwindowsjunkie]
Practical Implications of VoIP Reseller Program
Blog Since in this system, no fiber wires are brought to use and the whole operation is done through the Internet, the hassles associated with transmitting voice signals is comparatively less. The VoIP reseller program is a single means of delivering...
[May 2, 2008, 10:03 in VoIP Service and Solutions by kristenkiya]
erm...
Talkback The restriction won't be the cab or its fiber roots back to the exchange, but rather the physical hardware equipment in the local exchange. "and from cabinet to home 5-10Mbps? It will be more than that, they won't quite achieve 50Mbits from the cab...
About: BT promises super-fast broadband by Olympics
[December 22, 2009, 22:41 by CA]
Sun christens its power-saving processor
Talkback Two 1U units of 32 threads means thousands of web server threads instead of dozens of web servers, fewer shared network area storage fiber channel ports, reduction of EMC cabinets usage, etc. This was an interesting article.
About: Sun christens its power-saving processor
[November 16, 2005, 23:27]
Rwanda: On the leading edge of the mHealth frontier
Blog Plans to deploy fiber optic cables to encircle the landlocked country in 2010 will help make this idea a reality. 'Country looking and moving forward, not back' by Claire Thwaites Kigali, Rwanda -- With limited knowledge of the country aside from...
[May 13, 2009, 18:01 in Tech for Change by Tech for Change]
RE: Hey! You! Get off of my cloud - computing structure
Blog Comment Anyway - being serious: I think this aspect is interesting, "Plan 9's components are connected by various kinds of networks, including Ethernet, specially-built fiber networks, ordinary modem connections, and ISDN.
[August 18, 2008, 14:42 by Adrian Bridgwater]
RE: Skype Roundup - Heart Warming, Heart Breaking
Blog Comment We have high speed and very soon will have fiber optics. Jamie, I quite enjoy your comments, but I still feel you are a bit hard on Skype. As yet, I use Skypeout for personal, business and conference calls.
[September 26, 2008, 8:30 by DRS2]
Interesting to compare HP and ClearCube
Talkback Cubix uses PCI Express via fiber for desktop connectivity providing a 2.5GHz digitial signal and PCI slots at the desktop. It is interesting that everyone compares HP and ClearCube when HP is strictly a thin-client solution and ClearCube can be...
About: Blade desktops need sharper competition
[December 5, 2006, 12:26 by bspinney]
Is it time to charge for email?
Talkback All that connection is.is sending voltage or light across either coper or fiber. We have to pay to buy a computer. We have to pay to buy the operating system (unless you are smart and use linux). You have to pay for the software to send emails.
About: Is it time to charge for email?
[March 7, 2004, 4:08]
Future of wireless broadband is in the air
Talkback With the typical unsupervised wire link (or fiber optic for that matter) all it takes is connecting or otherwise taping into the line to retrieve unencrypted data. What Neanderthal thinking! Get your head out of the cave of paranoia and venture out...
About: Future of wireless broadband is in the air
[January 30, 2004, 15:51]
