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The answer is suggested by Hendrik Rood (Stratix): “There are only 4 complete patent portfolio’s for fibre optic manufacturing in the world * Corning (USA) * Draka Comteq (Netherlands) * Sumitomo (Japan) * Fujikura (Japan) The rest of the fibre … Continue reading →

Kinect, PS3, Wii: what to choose.. Or don’t we have to choose at all? Techblog (Financial times) writes about cloud gaming service OnLive. You don’t need a console, pc or Mac, just a little set-topbox with a Wireless game controller … Continue reading →

The month of october has been spent on a mountainbike trip from Lhasa (Tibet) to Kathmandu (Nepal), most of the time somewhere between 4000 and 5300 meters height. Next to the great views (see below) one could see how wide … Continue reading →

Benoit Felten’s post on the ridiculous methodology used by Ookla to measure broadband speeds raises the point how reliable all these broadbandspeed tests you can find on the Net actually are.[ Update: I have read a riposte by Ookla’s management … Continue reading →

Well, I guess I needed a mental break badly. Some time to learn new concepts, learn to know new friends and new circles of thought.  And now the time has come to put these thoughts in writing again.  To be … Continue reading →

Deploying FttH in vast countries like the USA and Australia poses its own challenges compared with dense urban countries like the Netherlands.  Often citied issues are the lower densities of housing cited as the main reason why a shared fiber … Continue reading →

As a proponent of evaluating FttH topologies (shared and point-to-point) on their path dependencies and option values I have been looking forward to see how the Australians would make their choices. One of the factors that make their case interesting … Continue reading →

In this and this previous post I have elaborated on the concept of virtualization of the access line and the use of “pluggable” subscriber/service modules. The question was raised if this would only work with fiber and more specifically point-to-point … Continue reading →

PR people know that many journalists do not read and study press releases carefully. So when Alcatel-Lucent announced a breakthrough to 300 Mbps over copper it was the headline of the day in many blogs, including the renowned Om Malik. Alas, … Continue reading →

In the previous post I have introduced the concept of a NeTU , P-apps and VLAN’s to improve the use of Broadband as a Utility. The slide shows the concept of the architecture. I guess not everybody knows that this … Continue reading →