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BT and TalkTalk fight, Virgin steps in
The last few weeks for both BT and TalkTalk have been interesting for UK telecoms - some may say slightly pathetic - but a lot is at stake for the broadband companies’ financial future.
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FCC proposes rule changes for obtaining telephone numbers
Have you ever wondered where telephone numbers come from? Well, kids, there’s this bird called a stork that delivers the numbers to your phone company which is very happy to receive them… if only it were that simple.
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Optical LAN vs. copper-based LAN: Which performs better?
Network users need more and more bandwidth. At the same time, your CFO wants to reduce IT spending. How can you address both needs with your local area network (LAN)?
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New analyst data confirms 100G’s exploding growth
In its just-released Optical Transport forecast, Dell'Oro Group pins the 100 Gbps market as the key to growth in the broader WDM market. "We are finding that the demand for 100 Gbps wavelengths is especially strong as service providers continue to expand their network capacity."
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Shouldn't it be "video is the recurring star"?
There is an insatiable demand for content of the video variety. It is so great infact that sports networks like ESPN are getting an outsized portion of your cable bill. The network infact gets more than $5 per subscriber per month regardless of whether you ever watch their networks.
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Is plain old telephone service really dying?
Plain old telephone service, or POTS, is being touted as on its way out by quite a few sources. But is that really the case?
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Will a smart grid help India avoid future blackouts?
In order to avoid these types of large-scale blackouts in the future, India needs to upgrade its transmission and distribution network and invest heavily in smart grid technology.
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Over 8m Britons have never been online
Around 8 million UK adults have never used the Internet. This equals to just over 16% of the entire UK adult population.
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Intel turns its back on Smart TV
Intel Corp is moving away from the TV system-on-chip (SoC) market, as it struggles to compete with other companies.
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150 Years Ago Today, the USA Got Wired!
A great article in the San Francisco Examiner today about the completion, 150 years ago today, of the transcontinental telegraph here in the United States: "150 years ago, a primitive Internet united the USA" I think "a primitive Internet" might be a bit of a stretch... but then again I'm one of those network people who think of the "Internet" as a "network of networks"... and this first interconnection was really just creating that initial network!