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Intro to Peering

September 3, 2008

In response to my earlier peering post, ARS has a great article on peering and transit.  The difference between peering and transit is at the heart of the Tier 1 debate.
Posted in Internet

Thunder and Lightning and Sun

August 24, 2008

I see that The Mozilla project has added functionality to Thunderbird, the email client I use. With Sunbird calendar and Lightning plug-in. "Since it's an extension, Lightning is tightly integrated with Thunderbird, allowing it to easily perform email-related calendaring tasks." My question: Is anyone using this combo as a replacement for Microsoft Outlook?

My Outlook pst file is about 1GB and email contents date back to my start in telecom in 2000. Can T-Bird run with 1GB in email, contacts, hundreds of folders, thousands of calendar items and hundreds of tasks and reminders? Any input would be appreciated. Thanks.

Posted in Internet, apps, email

What's Next for AOL?

August 4, 2008

It seems that TimeWarner is ready to eject AOL. One part will be the remnants of the ISP business, which I think EarthLink will grab, but Tara Seals at Xchange mag thinks that United Online (NetZero folks) or MSn would bid. I don't think in this economy that there will be bidding war for dial-up users, a declining revenue vehicle. Also, EarthLink is out looking to buy dial-up base. United Online is focused on its online properties (classmates and points.com) and they just bought FTD. MSN is not an ISP, but an internet portal for companies like Qwest. MSN likely would want the advertising piece of AOL, which I think Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft would bid for.

Posted in Internet, mergers, telco

Dr. Reed in The House

July 21, 2008

Dr. David Reed gave testimony to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce last week in a hearing on DPI (deep packet inspection). The House Committee is trying to figure out what to do about DPI, Privacy (HA! What privacy?), NebuAd and Targeted Advertising. Dr. Reed wasn't the only one to testify.

Posted in Internet, broadband, cableco, telco

40 Hour Work Week

July 16, 2008

I don't know about you but a 4 Hour Work Week seems unlikely, but just a 40 hour one would be grand! Tim Ferriss wrote the book, 4 Hour Work Week, and gave a great 45 minute summary of the book's principles at SXSW 2007 (here). David Seah has an exhaustive review of the principles of the book here. I'm just focused on his outsourcing.

Posted in Internet, off topic

Broadband Corruption?

July 15, 2008

DSLReports.com has an editorial titled, U.S. Broadband Cannot Be Fixed Until You Tackle Corruption. It seems that the new group, Internet for Everyone, has upset Karl. Karl is right in a way. There have been numerous groups over the years, including COMPTEL and its prior siblings, that have tried to get grass-roots support for a change at the FCC and in DC.

Posted in FCC, Internet, broadband

NebuAd under Deep Inspection

July 2, 2008

First there was wiretaps at the telco central offices. Then there was Sandvine and DPI (deep packet inspection) to help curb Peer-to-peer file-sharing (BitTorrent) that was consuming all available bandwidth with piracy (according to the puppet masters at the MPAA and RIAA). Now there is NebuAd, where DPI meets targeted advertising. And Privacy is just a thing of the past.

Posted in Internet, politics, security, telco

Secret Rooms

June 20, 2008

Mark Klein was the AT&T tech that outed the "Secret Room" in the AT&T CO in San Francisco. Now there is a secret room in AT&T's Internet POP in St. Louis.

News 4 Investigates: Illegal internet spying [May 5th, 2008]

Watch the TV news segment here. (IE required)

Isenberg points out that Congress is ready to give the Telcos retroactive immunity for wiretapping US citizens without a warrant.

That sound you just heard? That was our Founding Fathers screaming at the way our Constitution has been ignored. Privacy and individual rights are disappearing. That happens when you don't vote (get involved in the political process) and you don't read a newspaper.

Posted in Internet

ISP throttling and DPI

June 16, 2008

We in the US have ISP's that are throttling users, metering users, and adding DPI (deep packet inspection) to the network. Most of it is causing a stir.

It has often been said that this is an FTC issue about False Advertising than it is an FCC issue.

Posted in Internet

TWC Metering Bandwidth

June 5, 2008

This week the US is abuzz with news that Time Warner Cable will be performing a trial in Texas on metering bandwidth. TWC set caps and overage is $1/GB. Now, as someone who once had a metered EVDO card, it is amazing how fast 40MB in a day in just email (and attachments) adds up.

Considering that YouTube, MySpace and Facebook are the top 3,4,&5 visited sites in the US, hitting your cap will be quick and easy.

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