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tHAWT Episode #172: Provider bridging

Posted Sunday, September 20, 2009 10:56 AM by thindson :: 0 Comments
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In this week's episode, Dave keeps up his stellar solo effort. In addition to covering a number of new items identified below, he continues the theme he started last week on carrier Ethernet and raps up this week with a podsnack on provider bridging. Read More...

tHAWT Episode #171: Carrier Ethernet

Posted Sunday, September 13, 2009 4:45 PM by thindson :: 0 Comments
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In this episode of the Hill Associates Week in Telecom (tHAWT) Dave is running solo. As usual he covers a number of the items within the telecom world that have caught our collective eye and are tagged on Delicious. This week we are also continuing with Read More...

tHAWT Episode #168: Digital signatures

Posted Sunday, August 23, 2009 3:04 PM by thindson :: 0 Comments
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In this episode of the Hill Associates Week in Telecom (tHAWT), Mark and I are your hosts. The podsnack the episode ends with on the subject of digital signatures. This ties in with the last two episodes that covered certificates, certificate authorities, Read More...

tHAWT Episode #167: Certificate authority and root certificates

Posted Saturday, August 15, 2009 1:23 PM by thindson :: 0 Comments
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In this episode of the Hill Associates Week in Telecom (tHAWT), Mark and I run through some news of the week, which was mainly what was happening with a few of the telcos--Sprint/Clearwire, Telstra, FairPoint, etc. The links are below. We also capped Read More...

tHAWT Episode #166: What's a digital certificate?

Posted Sunday, August 09, 2009 7:39 PM by thindson :: 0 Comments
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In this episode of tHAWT, I am your host. I look at a few news items and finish with a podsnack on digital certificates. In the news was Twitter being down , which for those of you who have used Twitter for a while would say, that is not news, that's Read More...

tHAWT Episode #165: Television distribution

Posted Monday, August 03, 2009 8:12 AM by thindson :: 0 Comments
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Our combined tHAWT and Podsnack approach continues to evolve. In this episode Paul discusses a couple of news items but the bulk of the discussion is focused on technology related to television distribution. The links covered are below. Yahoo/Microsoft Read More...

tHAWT Episode #163: tHAWT prime for change

Posted Sunday, July 19, 2009 7:59 AM by thindson :: 0 Comments
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In this episode of tHAWT we are changing the format. The title "prime for change" is a play on words since I noticed that 163 was a prime number ( the 38th one to be exact ) so after 162 episodes it is probably prime time for a change. The plan Read More...

PodSnacks: IEEE 802.11g (54 Mbps)

Posted Monday, November 03, 2008 6:00 AM by mgilbert :: 0 Comments
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Today we'll continue our series looking at four of the transmission options for Wi-Fi wireless LANs by looking at IEEE 802.11g . This is the most commonly found Wi-Fi transmission rate today. As I prepared this snack for posting, I realized that Mark Read More...

PodSnacks: IEEE 802.11b (11 Mbps)

Posted Friday, October 31, 2008 6:00 AM by mgilbert :: 0 Comments
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Today we'll begin a series looking at four of the transmission options for Wi-Fi wireless LANs. Our first options is IEEE 802.11b . Although this is an older form of Wi-Fi, it is still broadly found in public hot spots. With its upper speed of 11 Read More...

PodSnacks: Remote Call Forwarding (RCF)

Posted Thursday, October 30, 2008 6:00 AM by mgilbert :: 0 Comments
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Back to voice, and today we talk about a service that I recently had develop material on so I could add it to a course I'm preparing. So you might as well get the benefit of some of my work. The topic is remote call forwarding (RCF), and I'll Read More...

PodSnacks: Fault, Configuration, Accounting, Performance, and Security (FCAPS) Management

Posted Wednesday, October 29, 2008 6:00 AM by mgilbert :: 0 Comments
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And now for something completely different! Our topic today is network management. Managing a network, especially a large one, is a complex activity. It can, however, be thought of as a collection of five basic management domains, which can be described Read More...

PodSnacks: Local Loop

Posted Tuesday, October 28, 2008 6:00 AM by mgilbert :: 0 Comments
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Today we shift to the world of the voice and talk about a component of the PSTN that has changed significantly since the days of Bell and Watson: the local loop . I don't have a lot of time to write more, so if you're interested, give a listen Read More...

PodSnacks: Internet Service Provider (ISP)

Posted Monday, October 27, 2008 6:00 AM by mgilbert :: 0 Comments
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Since we've been talking about various Internet -related concepts, and since this question came up in my class last week, I thought I'd tackle the term Internet service provider (ISP). Most of us probably know what this is and, if we don't, Read More...

PodSnacks: Primary Rate Interface (PRI)

Posted Friday, October 24, 2008 6:00 AM by mgilbert :: 0 Comments
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The other day, Peter gave us the low-down on the Basic Rate Interface (BRI). This is only one of two ISDN interface options. The other one is the Primary Rate Interface (PRI). In North America, the PRI is provisioned over a T-1 . Like the BRI, the PRI Read More...

PodSnacks: Bridge Protocol Data Unit (BPDU)

Posted Thursday, October 23, 2008 6:00 AM by mgilbert :: 0 Comments
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The other day we talked about local area networks (LAN), and that brought to mind a little protocol we often find in LANs where we have multiple switches arranged in a redundant configuration. We call it the Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) , or more recently Read More...
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