Wednesday, January 17, 2007 - Posts

PodSnacks: Convergence

OK - it's been beaten to death pretty badly, but it's still relevant. In this episode, Mark and Michel discuss the word convergence and its relevance. A model for looking at convergence as a set of layers starting at the transport core and moving Read More...

Getting a Little Juiced... or is that Joost?

They're at it again. Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, the boys who gave is Kazaa and Skype , are launching a new enterprise. This time, according to this Associated Press article, they're going to work on doing for television what they have done Read More...

Franchise, Franchise, Who's Got the Franchise?

In an opinion piece entitled Franchise Freedom in the January 2nd edition of the Wall Street Journal (the article can only be accessed if you have a subscription, but an excerpt can be found on the Benton Foundation website), the author applauds the FCC Read More...

It Goes Without Saying - Growth in VoIP in 2006; More in 2007

Everyone knows that VoIP deployment is gaining rapid acceptance and growing accordingly. And as reported in Network World in Dec 2006 , it seems the technology has definitely reached critical mass. Here are some interesting statistics from Keynote Systems Read More...

How Fast Can We Go?

I've discussed the commodization of bandwidth some time ago in a Podcast entitled " The Perfect Storm ." And still we get closer to having even more and faster throughput with the announcement of a new integrated photonic chip set from Infinera, Read More...