Little Brother is Watching: The Internet Revolution
War is Peace Freedom is Slavery Ignorance is Strength BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU Thus begins George Orwell’s 1984, a dystopian novel about a bleak future in which man is wholly subservient to the...
View ArticleBroadband is Power
Yesterday’s massive power outage in Southern California shows how much we depend on ubiquitous provision of electricity. And that we just assume it will always be there. Power outages like this are...
View ArticleThe Global Internet Speedup?
There have been some very hyperbolic stories written over the last couple of weeks following Google’s announcement of a proposed enhancement to the way the DNS (Domain Name System) works. DNS is the...
View ArticleSaving the World From 7 Billion People
The UN’s 7 billion day this week was reported with much hand wringing about the unsustainability of the dramatic, and continuing, growth of the world’s population. The assertion is that we are...
View ArticleThe Internet: Bigger than Canada, Faster than Brazil
According to McKinsey the Internet is now worth $8 Trillion and accounted for 21% of the GDP growth in the world’s thirteen largest economies over the last five years. If the Internet were a sector it...
View Article100 Day Anniversary
Ask a teenager how long they’ve been dating and, chances are, the answer is just as likely to be denominated in days as it is to be in months (assuming they’re dating, that is). I should know. As the...
View ArticleVyvx in Photos: From Stadium to Couch
In a previous post I talked about Level 3’s new Vyvx Solutions business. Ben also gave a little insight into a large event we were involved with. But I thought it would be interesting to show some...
View ArticleHas the Internet Changed Your Brain?
Inside your skull there are upwards of 30 billion neurons. Each neuron is connected by synapses. And each neuron might have several thousand synapses. Now that’s a big network! For the first half of...
View ArticleDo we Really Need Toll Free Anymore?
This morning during breakfast, I was reminiscing about all of my years in this business and thinking, “boy… have some things changed.” Not only have I witnessed the complete makeover of the industry,...
View Article100Gbps Transport – Costs of Network Complexity Override Early Adoption Price...
Even though current costs of 100Gbps hardware technology have not yet achieved a break-even point vs. 10Gbps technology, service providers are actively investing in these high capacity transport...
View ArticlePositioned For Growth: Is your Organization Prepared for the next wave of the...
In 1998, a little movie hit the big screens called, You’ve Got Mail. While the main plot was a boy-meets-girl love story, the sub-plot was the classic David versus Goliath framed as big bookstore...
View ArticleA Cure for Insomnia for a Global Network Manager
A little over a year ago, my wife and I had our first child, so on a recent trip to Asia, I found myself trying to stay connected to home more than on previous international travels. We live in...
View ArticleA Different Conversation between Incumbents and Backbone Providers
For the providers mentioned in David Meyer’s July 11, 2013 GigaOm article, there are two sides of the story relevant to the Internet service provider’s business model. The incumbents believe their...
View ArticleThe “Internet of Things” Challenge
Much has been said about the fact that the large increase in the number of devices connected to the Web will unleash a series of challenges to be faced. The main inconvenience is that, from a technical...
View Article“Chicken” | A Game Played as a Child and by some ISPs with the Internet
In the wake of the DC Circuit’s net neutrality ruling, there has been quite a bit of media attention around congestion on the Internet and its effects on consumers, including alleged impacts on the...
View ArticleObservations of an Internet Middleman
We received a lot of positive feedback, as well as a lot of questions when Mike posted his recent story, Chicken. Many of the questions asked for more specific data about the scale and size of the...
View ArticleWhen the Middleman and ISP are Aligned
We have received numerous questions and comments on the congestion information that I shared on Internet interconnection in the U.S. and Europe. We thought it would be helpful to provide a bit more...
View ArticleHeads ISPs Win, Tails You Lose (And a way to fix it)
Our prior posts (here, here and here) discuss the game of “chicken” some ISPs are playing with the Internet—refusing to alleviate Internet congestion unless Internet access tolls are paid. Like “heads...
View ArticleVerizon’s Accidental Mea Culpa
David Young, Vice President, Verizon Regulatory Affairs recently published a blog post suggesting that Netflix themselves are responsible for the streaming slowdowns Netflix’s customers have been...
View ArticleSaving the World From 7 Billion People
The UN’s 7 billion day this week was reported with much hand wringing about the unsustainability of the dramatic, and continuing, growth of the world’s population. The assertion is that we are...
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