Monthly Archives: February 2010
Killer app
This would make me order a FttH connection for my mother. She would definitely be able to use it and keep in touch with everyone. (CES 2010, LG’s new Skype embedded TV series).
Fiber in the home
The next step in FTTH is obvious: FITH (fiber-in-the-home) and just around the corner. “Genexis’ new CPE is the first POF-enabled product to provide a seamless fiber-powered home network. ……With its unlimited bandwidth, our POF-enabled CPE is a logical step … Continue reading
Symmetry: on averages and variation
Dr. Kenjiro Cho is a renowned researcher of the Internet in Japan. His famous paper on The Impact and Implications of the Growth in Residential User-to-User Traffic was the first to point to the real observed usage of high speed broadband … Continue reading
Mobile operators craving for fixed lines
As Nico Baken often says “Mobile bits are desperately seeking the nearest fixed line”. In Barcelona (Mobile World Congres) is has become clear that this truth cannot be ignored anymore, as people are fully exploiting the joys of mobile data … Continue reading
Ipad as “Club Med” for home automation
In a previous post I predicted that the Ipad would be the ideal device for digital tourists (wealthy, middle aged or elder) at home, giving access to home systems at large. Great if the apps and icons would work the same … Continue reading
Hiding behind your own walls
Try this link http://www.digitalhome.ca/2010/02/shaw-to-trial-ftth-internet-service/ on a Canadian website about an FTTH trial, and you might get this. You got to be kidding me…. Sorry, we cannot serve up the page you requested! If you are trying to reach Digital Home … Continue reading
Crossing the barrier
You can sometime observe in an industry that people hesitate to cross a psychological barrier. All players wait and see. Once the first sheep is over the dam, the rest starts to follow, first with hesitation, followed by an avalanche. … Continue reading
T.Googlii
Harold Feld has created a hilarious but otherwise quite believable analogy of Google with a certain type a bacteria, T.Gondii: For those unfamiliar with T. Gondii, it goes through two stages. In stage one, it can exist in any mammal. … Continue reading
Gigabits to Googlebits per second
One of the less understood advantages of an optical network (optical fiber) is the fact that the best fiber does nothing but guide light. The electro-optical equipment on either end of the fiber creates the communication path. One piece of … Continue reading
Rearguard fight against new life
Everybody can’t wait for the winter to pass into spring. We need green leaves, more sunshine and a bright view of the future. In telecoms we can observe the new life pushing hard against the winter. Last week NLKabel released … Continue reading