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Archive for May, 2003

Inside Intel

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 24th, 2003

Research firm Rethink Research provides an in-depth look at Intel, a company that wants it all. Intel’s year-old Ubiquity Project, the personal data server, Centrino and Wi-Max are covered. Rethink speculates that the growth of WiMAX could outshine Wi-Fi with Intel [...]

NYC Considering Wireless

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 23rd, 2003

802 Planet reports a new study from the New York City Council is recommending that the Big Apple throw open the competitive bidding process for its annual $130 million phone and Internet bill in order to leverage one of the most expansive — and underused — fiber optic networks in the country. [...]

Municipal Broadband Battles

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 22nd, 2003

SlashDot’s post links to an interview with Jim Baller (muni-telco-lawyer) concerning Municipal Broadband Battles and the “fights they go through with the incumbent providers and state legislatures.” At the turn of the last century, when electricity was the great new technology of the age, the private sector focused first [...]

Community LAN Success Story

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 22nd, 2003

802 Planet has an instructive story, that could be inspiration to others. In just a few months, FastKat went from being a couple of guys that couldn’t get broadband Internet access in their neighborhood to being the owners of a successful, fast-growing wireless ISP with almost 150 customers. [...]

T/W Phones Home

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 22nd, 2003

AOL Time Warner’s cable division is providing phone service, reports C/Net. Time Warner’s “Digital Phone” service will provide unlimited local, in-state and domestic long-distance telephone service for $40 a month and be available only in the Portland, Maine, area. Cisco is providing equipment for the initial service launch. According [...]

US Broadband Growth

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 22nd, 2003

“Broadband in the States 2003” shows that broadband subscribers totaled 16.2 million in June 2002, compared to 12.8 million in December 2001. This 27 percent increase was the slowest since the FCC started collecting statistics back in 1999. Other Key Findings Broadband is [...]

Thirty Years of Ethernet

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 21st, 2003

Thirty years ago, on May 22, 1973, Bob Metcalfe proposed a protocol he called Ethernet. His networking architecture was based on the satellite-based Aloha system, and described in a memo at Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center. In July 1976, Metcalfe and Boggs published their landmark paper in the Communications [...]

The New Standard - 100 Mbps?

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 21st, 2003

Think the frustration of deploying different 802.11G “standards” will end on June 12th, with ratification of 802.11G? Think again. “G” Upgrades are ratching up the 54Mbps top speed to 100 Mbps - or so. The IEEE is begining to consider a high-speed (more than 100Mbps) extension [...]

Wi-Fi Linux Drivers Killed by Military?

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 21st, 2003

SlashDot says ‘Some WLAN Chip Specs Secret To Protect Military Communications’.
“While this is stretching it a bit — these radios are generally limited to a narrow frequency range and few modulation types — software can cause illegal radio operation, especially when the laws vary by country. Is Linux [...]

Tropos Campus Wi-Fi

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 21st, 2003

The NY Times reports Half Moon Bay, near San Francisco, has deployed 8 to 10 Wi-Fi hot spots using Tropos network. Two of the hot spots have land-line connections to carry the data to the Internet backbone, the rest use mesh-like interconnections. The Tropos network embeds a [...]