BoxTop’s free broadband platform might just be the ticket to reaching unconnected homes without any government entitlements. It seems to have revenue potential for the carrier and the content/application provider and the consumer gets a free computer and free broadband connectivity.

High speed traders are getting a huge advantage from a low latency managed network and high speed computers. This has upset some people and they seem to want it all stopped. But is that really good for the economy, jobs, and innovation?

Chris O’Brien of the San Jose Mercury News boasted that his wife organized events to fight the construction of a cell tower because they feared Radio Frequency (RF) exposure. But from a scientific standpoint, the O’Brien’s are exposing themselves to more RF by living further from the cell tower.

Harold Feld claims that Title II classification would prohibit paid prioritization, but even his own arguments show that Title II couldn’t completely outlaw paid prioritization or other enhanced services.

Cisco is launching a relatively cheap 1080P telepresence system for the home at $599 plus a $25 monthly service fee. This is the lowest price point for a 1080P system with this level of video quality.

BoxTop will offer a free broadband service and it will work on your TV set. The service will be subsidized by application providers.

Hulu started dropping recent content to 360P quality or below and eliminated the 480P option. I hope this isn’t a new trend.

We’re probably going to run out of unassigned IP addresses in 2012, but nobody seems to care and they’re not doing anything about it. The problem is that the visible benefits of IPv6 are few and the challenge of deploying it are hefty.

I was asked to explain the concept of network latency using something other than geek talk, so I created this tutorial explaining what is bandwidth, latency, and jitter. The following is a short 7 minute video I posted on YouTube.

Glenn Fleishman at Wi-Fi Net News seems to have been infected with too much reality and he has a realistic outlook on white space wireless networking.  Fleishman deserves some warning from me that this is the kind of party pooper engineering reality that gets you uninvited from all the cool parties in Silicon Valley because you’re out of step [...]