If you’re not going all Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH), you still have quite a few options for wringing more bandwidth out of your broadband network. I’m starting a tally of techniques. What have I missed? Switched Digital Video – Video streams are only switched on when requested by a subscriber. Channel Bonding – Part of the DOCSIS [...]
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Since green electronics are all the rage, I had to post this quick note on the new Climate Counts Company Scorecard. Motorola scored at the upper end the spectrum in the electronics category – 60 out of a possible score of 100. To put that number in context, Apple scored a 2. Ouch. One thing [...]
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Ed Zander presented one of the keynote speeches at NXTcomm yesterday and expounded on a theme that is literally ubiquitous at the moment: video everywhere. Where has this theme appeared recently? There’s a certain phone I won’t name coming out on June 29th that will allow access to YouTube. Verizon announced its one millionth FiOS [...]
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Verizon used the NXTcomm event today to announce the one millionth FiOS customer. And, to add a human touch (albeit a cheesy one), Verizon has embedded a video on its policy blog showing the family that put FiOS over that one-million milestone. (For those who don’t live in the area, that’s a Long Island accent [...]
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There are a couple more Motorola announcements out of NXTcomm today: North American availability of Motorola’s IP DSLAM portfolio and the launch of Motorola’s GPON solution. More details to come, but note that the GPON solution is the one Verizon will be deploying in its FiOS network. Motorola has a relatively long history of providing [...]
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