The adoption of Kubernetes-enabled infrastructures and applications has revealed the challenge involved in enabling persistent, reliable data storage in an ephemeral compute…
Read MoreCalix, a maker of next generation networking gear is buying Occam networks for $171 million in a stock and cash transaction. The deal values Occam at $7.75 a share -- a 27 percent premium over current stock price and includes $3.84 a share in cash.…
Read MoreChattanooga, TN today become one of few places in the world where it is possible to get 1 Gbps broadband connections to their homes and businesses, thanks to their muni-owned network operator & utility, EPB. The GPON-based network is one of the fastest anywhere.…
Read MoreWe are now entering the "age of augmented humanity," Google CEO Eric Schmidt today in Berlin. Schmidt tied together Google's efforts in artificial intelligence, on smartphones and on connected devices like the coming Google TV platform to draft a master vision for the future of technology.…
Read MoreThe FCC today released a new report, Internet Access Services, which gives the state of Internet in the US -- at the end of June 2009. The problem is that the report has data that is 14 months old, which makes it pretty much worthless.…
Read MoreThe U.S. Federal Communications Commission is poised to take action on "white spaces" by appeasing TV broadcasters interference concerns. Given successful trials, the final hurdle for widespread use of this unlicensed spectrum may be cleared, birthing a entirely new wireless industry and long-range wireless hotspots.…
Read MoreViridity Software says it can take the sensors out of data center energy management. On Thursday the startup announced it has raised an $8 million second round of funding from Battery Ventures and North Bridge Venture Partners to take that idea to market.…
Read MoreThe growing popularity of video -- online and on-demand -- is making carriers rethink their network plans. Many broadband providers are currently experimenting with new 10G technologies so as to offer much more bandwidth to your home than even current fiber-to-the-home networks offer.…
Read MoreVerizon has delivered broadband speeds of almost 1 gigabit per second to a customer in Taunton, Mass. as part of tests of its FiOS fiber to the home network. The test customer achieved throughputs of 925 Mbps down and 800 Mbps up.…
Read MoreIn November 2007, I remember reading then-Senator Obama's Technology and Innovation Platform for the first time. I was amazed that a candidate had said that he understood what net neutrality was about and that he knew it was important to the nation's economy and culture.…
Read MoreGoogle has broken the relative silence it has maintained after coming out with a controversial framework for addressing net neutrality, which it developed with Verizon. In a post called "Facts about our network neutrality proposal" Google explains itself. But here are the facts about Google's facts.…
Read MoreSeveral grassroots organizations are planning a protest at noon tomorrow at Google’s Mountain View campus. The groups plan to protest because the search giant has teamed up with Verizon to offer a compromise on net neutrality that has the potential to create a two-tiered Internet.…
Read MoreWhat’s worth watching today: The HPOA dry erase girl talks to CBS News, bowling champions face off in Germany, brilliant minds talk at TEDx Kansas, Mandy Moore wants to rid the world of malaria, and more.…
Read MoreOn Monday Google and Verizon announced a controversial framework for compromise on the contentious issue of network neutrality--the idea that ISPs shouldn't discriminate against web traffic. But for those who really want to dig into the issue, read what the web is saying.…
Read MoreCable and telephone companies added a scant 336,000 net broadband subscriptions during the second quarter, according to the Leichtman Research Group: the lowest amount in the nine years that the analyst firm has tracked such additions. Telcos were the big losers as cable tromped DSL.…
Read MoreThe news media wasn’t buying the network neutrality compromise that Google and Verizon shared on Monday, but today the two chief executives…
Read MoreAs expected, Google and Verizon have agreed to make network neutrality enforceable on wireline networks, without extending the same to wireless. However, the agreement does ask for transparency in network management on wireline and wireless networks, and leaves a place for operators to offer managed services.…
Read MoreMunicipal fiber may the fastest way for smaller communities and those in areas without competition to bring better broadband to their community. But these networks generally aren't popular with incumbent communications providers, which have a history of suing to stop them. But their tactics have changed.…
Read MoreOur world is getting smaller and smaller, thanks to the increasing number of folks connecting to the Internet. It is more connected, changing the way we live, work, communicate and share. Here is a visual representation of our connected planet, by the numbers.…
Read MoreGoogle has reached an agreement with Verizon over Internet traffic management. It is the first step in what would amount to slow asphyxiation of network neutrality. The deal apparently prevents Verizon from blocking traffic but allows prioritization of certain types of traffic.…
Read MoreClearwire now provides its 4G WiMAX service to five new cities, which brings its total mobile broadband coverage to 51 million people. However, it's August and the carrier is only 43 percent of the way to its goal of covering 120 million people before year end.…
Read MoreWe are inching toward half a billion broadband subscribers worldwide, thanks to booming demand for fast connections. Find out the top 10 service providers in the world. Which is the largest? The fastest? What are the top five US broadband service providers?…
Read MoreWhile federal agencies and Congress wage war over the future of broadband, here’s a secret. That vision they have of getting 100 Mbps service in 100 million homes by 2020? Several U.S. markets have gone way beyond that to deliver the future of broadband today.…
Read MoreTwilight Eclipse: The 8-Bit Interactive Game, a popular series of interactive YouTube videos that blended Twilight themes with 1980s 8-Bit graphics, has been taken down by YouTube based on a DMCA request by Summit Entertainment, the company that holds the movie rights of the Twilight Franchise.…
Read MoreMore than 70 percent of U.S. broadband customers are happy with their overall service, according to Leichtman Research Group. And just 26 percent are "very interested" in receiving faster speeds at home. Which means that big, bold fiber efforts aren't supported by today's consumer demand.…
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