Cisco’s Video-Comms, FT’s NRA Z0 and is VDSL NGA ?

I'm still struggling for time and I still haven't managed to write my new year blog post. That's when I'm glad I'm French, we have until January 31st to do that in France!

Meanwhile, a few tidbits of information:

The

Dataset Specification for “Bandwidth Hog” analysis

Last week I wrote a twin piece with my fellow blogger Herman Wagter regarding bandwidth hogs entitled "Is the Bandwidth Hog a Myth?". In this piece, I offered to analyse a properly built dataset that would allow an

Herding the Bandwidth Hogs

I don't think Herman and myself expected this to become so big, so fast! My post Is the Bandwidth Hog a Myth? and his Congestion Neutrality were picked up by Ars Technica, Slashdot, Gizmodo, Techdirt, DSL

Stockholm Wrap-Up

These two days in Stockholm have been really productive. As if often happens, things have coalesced really at the last minute, yesterday evening I still didn't know if I would be meeting with anyone today. Turns out I met with

The slow ramp-up of Lafayette FTTH

For a few years now Lafayette has been the focal point of attention when it comes to municipal FTTH deployments in the US. This year, Lafayette Utility Service actually launched its service. A long article in The Independant Weekly entitled

Analysing a broadband ad

Virgin has a new ad for its 50Mb/s service, and it's all the buzz on the blogosphere, thanks in part to the fact that their ad agency apparently sollicited a number of bloggers directly to comment, including our very own

Rural Broadband Means Economic Growth

"In other news, water is wet", you might think. And yet the recent study published by the USDA (see USDA Study Finds Rural Communities Benefit From Greater Broadband Internet Acess) is a landmark in that it demonstrates on the

Book of Walled Gardens

In the last few weeks, and particularly since the FTTH Business Model webinar that I and my colleague Wally held in late June, there's been some serious blogging and press coverage about this piece of research. More recently, I was