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The curse of BPL
I am hesitant to put pen to paper to write about Broadband over Power Lines or BPL and Power Line Communications or PLC (maybe this should be Broadband over mains in the UK!) as I have no doubt that I...
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WAP, GPRS, HSDPA on the move!
Over the last few months I have written many posts about Internet technologies but they have been pretty much focussed on terrestrial rather than wireless networks (other than dabbling in Wi-Fi with my...
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Do you know your ENUM?
Isn’t it funny how a new concept is often universally derided as nonsensical? There are many examples of this but none more so than Voice over IP (VoIP) (I mean Internet Protocol not Intellectual...
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EBay paid too much for Skype
I don’t normally post news, but I couldn’t resist posting this as it so close to my heart. Ever since the deal was done everyone has been asking whether it was worth what they paid. The article was in...
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The Bluetooth standards maze
This posting focuses on low-power wireless technologies that enable communication between devices that are located within a few feet of each other. This can apply to both voice communications as well...
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Content transcoding hits mobiles
Content transcoding hits mobiles Content adaptation and transcoding is high on the agenda of many small mobile content or services companies at the moment and is causing more bad language and angst...
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Hammerhead Systems: Enabling PBB-TE – MPLS seamless services
I haven’t quite decided whether there is a true religious war between the now ubiquitous MPLS and the more recent PBB-TE (Provider Backbone Bridging Traffic Engineering) Ethernet technologies. It...
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XTERA acquires AZEA NETWORKS
I don’t normally ‘do news’, but as I wrote a long piece about Azea networks earlier this year I thought this pertinent. Allen, Texas – (November 29, 2007) – Xtera Communications announced today that it...
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EDS hoovers up Nexagent
To quote Channel Register: EDS has bought Reading-based firm Nexagent. Nexagent makes software for companies to design, manage, and provision virtual private networks, especially those for large...
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The new network dogma: Has the wheel turned full circle?
“An authoritative principle, belief, or statement of ideas or opinion, especially one considered to be absolutely true” When innovators proposed Internet Protocol (IP) as the universal protocol for...
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IPv6 to the rescue – eh?
To me, IPv6 is one of the Internet’s real enigmas as the supposed replacement of the the Internet’s ubiquitous IPv4. We all know this has not happened. The Internet Protocol (IPv4) is the principle...
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The Cloud hotspotting the planet
I first came across the first across the embryonic idea behind The Cloud in 2001 when I first met its Founder, George Polk. In those days George was the ‘Entrepreneur in Residence’ at iGabriel, an...
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