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Wrong on the "Exaflood," Wrong on Network Neutrality

In 2007, Johna Till Johnson, president of Nemertes Research, published a paper that hyped a so-called "Exaflood"—a kooky Discovery Institute idea about how the Internet would drown in its own data. The Nemertes press release on the paper was widely ...

From DAVID ISENBERG, CircleID,  2 Oct 2009
Related Topics: AT&T Inc.,  Federal Communications Commission,  Skype,  eBay Inc.

Making Network Neutrality Sustainable, Revisited

Today FCC Chairman Genichowski announced that the FCC's Network Neutrality Proceeding is entering the rule-making stage. This is a historic milestone, worth celebrating, but the milestone is on a road with hairpin turns. If you look directly above us, ...

From DAVID ISENBERG, CircleID,  21 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Federal Communications Commission,  Skype,  David Weinberger,  Ed Whitacre

Verizon Throws 18 States Under the Progress Train

I am a happy Verizon FIOS fiber-to-the-home customer in Connecticut, I admire the long view Verizon took to build its FIOS infrastructure, and I appreciate the substantial punishment that Verizon took from Wall Street until it became obvious that FIOS ...

From DAVID ISENBERG, CircleID,  17 Sep 2009
Related Topics: John Burke

FCC National Broadband Plan Workshop: Lessons from the Rest of the World

It has been widely reported that the U.S. has fallen from broadband leadership to fourth in 2002, to twelfth, or sixteenth or 24th today, depending on whose numbers are cited. To at least one of the Workshop's experts, Jeffrey Eisenach, the U.S. ...

From DAVID ISENBERG, techPresident,  19 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Federal Communications Commission,  Columbia University

More Questions About WSJ Claims of Iran DPI

The Wall Street Journal's dubious story about Iran's use of Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) for spying, censorship and disinformation appears in a highly charged atmosphere. The US Republican right wing wants the US to talk tougher to Iran, to ...

From DAVID ISENBERG, CircleID,  25 Jun 2009
Related Topics: Wall Street Journal,  U.S. Republican Party

It's Official: Value Moving to Edge

"… the latest smartphones (Pre, Bold, iPhone) show that wireless applications can be separated from the underlying network. Indeed, apps must be provided separately to allow the explosive innovation required to grow as well as take advantage of global ...

From DAVID ISENBERG, CircleID,  12 Jun 2009
Related Topics: Skype

Crawford Likes Aussie Utility Network

Of course, the U.S. is some 15 times bigger than Australia, and that'd make the price tag closer to $500B by straight multiplication. But the U.S. would get a fiber network done right. It'd be as fast as technology would allow; note that affordable ...

From DAVID ISENBERG, CircleID,  27 May 2009
Related Topics: Federal Communications Commission

TWC Does the Right Thing - Again!

In response to customer feedback, Time Warner Cable has discontinued its trials of tiered Internet service. [Corporate Announcement here.] It was quite a stuff-storm, but to TWC's credit, they put their finger up, felt the howling gale, and changed ...

From DAVID ISENBERG, CircleID,  21 Apr 2009
Related Topics: Federal Communications Commission,  Time Warner Inc.,  Comcast

Dumb When They Want To Be…

In it, Ken Engelhart, senior vice-president of regulatory [affairs?] for Rogers Corp. is quoted saying, "We're a dumb pipe. We don't know what you're downloading ... so how can we be responsible for the content?" Wasn't it just yesterday that the ...

From DAVID ISENBERG, CircleID,  17 Feb 2009
Related Topics: Google Inc.

Fixing the Internet Might Break It Worse Than It's Broken Now

Willis Alan Ramsey, who wrote "Muskrat Love," recorded one and only one studio album. The cognoscenti of country think it's a gem, an all time top ten. There's an apocryphal story that when Ramsey was pushed to make another record he allegedly retorted, ...

From DAVID ISENBERG, CircleID,  16 Feb 2009
Related Topics: Lawrence Lessig,  Microsoft Corporation

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