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GPON: The Gateway PON

Fiber To The Home FTTH deployments continue to enjoy accelerated growth worldwide, with major deployments underway in Japan (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation [NTT]), Korea Korea Telecom and the United States Verizon. Passive Optical Networking PON deployments are currently segmented in two flavors: Ethernet PON EPON in Japan and Korea,...

Tags: Deployment, U.S., Gateway Inc., Competitive Local Exchange Carrier, NTT Corp., Conexant Systems, Incumbent Local Exchange Carrier, Passive Optical Networking Deployment, Ethernet, Fiber Optics, Network Technology, Broadband Internet, Optical Networking, Networking, Telecommunications

White papers 2008-05-21

Ten Future of Tech bets- and you can vote here on all of them!

All the way back in 2001, the Long Bets Foundation was established. The goal was to put forth several technology-related propositions about whether specific events were going to happen within a specific time period.Even more intriguingly, these bets were articulated by two-person teams of generally well-known technologists. People such...

Tags: Google Inc., VoD, Voice Recognition, Bet, Incumbent Local Exchange Carrier, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2007-08-06

Broadband Act's VoIP access provision means "watch out, here comes the fee monster"

Verizon absolutely luvvs Nevada Republican John Ensign's Broadband Investment and Consumer Choice Act. One of its many provisions is that traditional phone companies must continue to provide access to competing services on "commercially reasonable" terms."Commercially reasonable?" No company, no enterprise thinks they are being commercially unreasonable. "Commercially reasonable" to me...

Tags: Incumbent Local Exchange Carrier, VoIP

Blog posts 2005-07-31

Sonus: gunning for 4 for 4 ILEC sweep?

Telecom networking publication Light Reading reports that softswitch vendor Sonus Networks will be BellSouth's softswitch provider when the Atlanta-based regional carrier gears up its residential VoIP service within the next 12 months.Because softswitches are the nexus for connections between circuit and packet-switched networks, such a partnership would give Sonus a...

Tags: Sonus Networks

Blog posts 2005-06-13

SBC To FCC: Make VoIP Users Pay

The Wall Street Journal reports today that SBC is planning to file a tariff request with the FCC that would likely increase the fees paid by Internet Service Providers for calls completed on the SBC network.We've heard this argument before. Essentially, it goes that although you may be using an...

Tags: SBC

Blog posts 2004-11-17

70 fiber-to-the-home deployments in the US

To counter cable's threat, a trio of incumbent local exchange carriers ILECs has announced plans to extend their optical networks all the way to customer premises using fiber-to-the-home FTTH technologies. They are not alone in their fiber initiatives, however, and were even slow out of the gate. Nearly 70 FTTH...

Tags: FTTH, fiber, Incumbent Local Exchange Carrier

Blog posts 2004-10-26

Additional Resources

Services capability. Check. Financing arm. Check.

National Wind, the wind development company focused on encouraging local investment and ownership for its wind projects, has completed its purchase of investment banker Delphi Financial. Given how quickly National Wind is signing new projects, the company figured it made sense to acquire its own renewable energy...

Tags: Turbine, Renewable Energy, Borland Delphi, Financing, Programming Languages, Financial Accounting, Development Tools, Telecom & Utilities, Investment, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Finance, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-09-06

Google Chrome vulnerabilities starting to pile up

Google Chrome vulnerabilities starting to pile upGoogle Chrome vulnerabilities starting to pile upFile this in the "No Surprise" category. The shoddy programming at Google which has been reflected on many of their applications and services should come as no surprise to anyone on Chrome. Google is trying to live...

Tags: SECURITY, Google Chrome vulnerability, Google Inc., Google Chrome, vulnerability, Chrome, programming

Discussion threads 2008-09-05

Enterprise password management really isn't a good idea

Being at a university and working for a government department allows me to understand this concept well. There are shared resources here, there and everywhere, provided by different people and providers, all open to a "certain type" of person - employees or students. By having a single sign-on SSO point...

Tags: Software, Password Management, Mozilla Firefox, Password, Single Sign-on, RoboForm Enterprise, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-09-05

My Awesome IT Job: Senior IT Manager, Cisco

Hey, we all complain about work from time to time; we've all had lousy jobs. But before you call it a day and head off to the support group that meets at the bar, here are a few words from an IT pro that loves their work. ...

Tags: Information Technology, Cisco Systems Inc., Deb Perelman

Blog posts 2008-09-05

Exchange Log Analyzer (exe)

Exchange Log Analyzer ELA is a high performance tool for analyzing, charting and reporting on the message tracking logs that are generated by Microsoft Exchange Server 2000 and Microsoft Exchange Server 2003. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.

Tags: Microsoft Exchange Server, Exchange Log Analyzer, E-mail Servers, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software

Software downloads 2008-09-05

Malware and spam attacks exploiting Picasa and ImageShack

In the wake of the recent malvertising attacks where malicious flash ads were appearing at trusted web sites, evidence from multiple vendors and researchers indicates that spammers and malware authors have once again switched tactics, and are one again abusing legitimate services such as Google's Picasa and ImageShack. Whereas the...

Tags: Technique, Spammer, Malware, Google Picasa, Attack, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Security, Viruses And Worms, Spam, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-09-04

What can we do better?

What can we do better?Asking the experts!I don't have a clue how it works in you area. I volunteer at the local high school. Being a retired programmer, I thought, great, I am going to make a difference. Went to the principle. Question: who is the...

Tags: Development tools, programming

Discussion threads 2008-09-04

The power of standard protocols

I've spent the past few months as the primary developer at a very small company. An important technology to this company is Instant Messaging, as it plays an essential part in our approach to unified messaging. This has meant that I have had to build, in-house, our...

Tags: IM, Jabber, Protocol, XMPP, Instant Messaging, Internet, Online Communications, John Carroll

Blog posts 2008-09-04

My first Linux laptop is the Asus EeePC netbook

My first Linux laptop is the Asus EeePC netbookTotally different machines.A netbook is a full laptop. Yes, the industry is trying to keep the impression that it is only for casual use, etc, but there is little only constrained by ram these netbooks can't do (well, with Linux). ...

Tags: Keyboards, Notebooks, UNIX, Operating systems, laptop computer, keyboard, netbook, Linux, ASUS, Linux laptop

Discussion threads 2008-09-04

Something in the air: Several random wind energy updates

It's been so still here in northern New Jersey for the past week that I can't imagine using the technology that I'm going to mention in this post. And yet the wind has been known to bend the trees in my yard, like kelp responding to a tidal surge. So,...

Tags: Alternative Energy, mW, Wind Energy, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-09-04

Dell repair adventure, day 5, with updates

Since our last episode, our hero has been communicating with Bob Pearson, Dell's VP of Communities & Conversations, and Bill Bivin, Dell's Community Liaison, about getting my Dell Lattitude D620 back up and running. Both Bob and Bill give every impression of trying very hard to deal not only with...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Channel Management, Marketing, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-09-04

Dell's Mini packs Ubuntu, XP

Dell's Mini packs Ubuntu, XPAt this point you may as well wait for integrated 3GPrices are coming down so fast, plus these things are perfect for carrying around everywhere no matter where you go. Plus the 3G providers will probably subsidize them anyway.That's exactly the netbook I want!I only hope...

Tags: Operating systems, Dell Computer Corp., Microsoft Windows XP, Ubuntu, Linux

Discussion threads 2008-09-04

Hybrids v. Pickensplan? You do the pickin'

Hybrids v. Pickensplan? You do the pickin'How about a plug in hybrid that uses CNG and electric?How about a plug in hybrid that uses CNG and electric instead of gasoline/electric? The other thing to consider is that trucks, construction equipment, and farm equipment could be converted to CNG....

Tags: CNG, car

Discussion threads 2008-09-03

Looking deeper into Comcast's new cap

Looking deeper into Comcast's new capWhat's behind the Comcast cap?Well, I say we should strike "Comcast" and substitute "Cable" in its place!What I dislike the most about politically correct constructs is the milky-toast tone typically used. Cable Internet IS DEAD! The dinky little coax does well delivering low grade T.V.,...

Tags: Network technology, Broadband Internet, cable, Comcast Corp., satellite, bandwidth, Internet

Discussion threads 2008-09-03