Loading ...I’ve added several more telecom blogs to my blogroll, each offering a non-USA perspective to many of the issues I ramble on about here. One is relatively new, the others have been around a while - it’s just that my tastes are widening.
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CenturyTel’s Buyout Bid for Embarq Will Likely Jump-Start [...]
Categories: General Information
Telephony Online has an article today discussing the trend of carriers offshoring parts of their network operations. This certainly is going on, one only has to listen to what networks like Colt and Level 3 have to say in their earnings calls. And it’s unstoppable, like heat flowing from hot to cold and water running [...]
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With the apparent sudden death of the InvestorVillage message boards, I have been pushed to action. In that poll I ran just a few days ago, the top suggestion was discussion forums, and so I thought what the heck. I mean, even if nobody shows up I still get to mess around with my website [...]
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August was a sleepy month. Pageviews, Visits, and Unique Visitors all dropped slightly from July to 25,500, 12,500, and 5,100. I chalk that up to a few factors: 1) July was huge, 2) the telecom world goes on vacation in August, and 3) sector news was light, on account of 2). Hopefully things will pick [...]
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Obama gave his speech last night, and I was able to watch it live in HD and it was just astounding! Big deal, you’re saying, we all did. Yeah, but I’m in Beijing right now. Yes, the one in China. And not in some fancy hotel with a high powered internet link either - just [...]
Categories: Content Distribution · General Information · Internet Backbones
Latency, which is simply the delay between action and reaction, has been a part of the internet since it was born. Gamers live and die by it, and not just the MMORPGs and first person shooter games. Latency is a big deal even in online chess and bridge. When your senses are tuned to quick [...]
Categories: Content Distribution · Fiber optic cable · General Information · Telecom Equipment
Well, it’s getting late in August, and there must be a lot of people on vacation enjoying the fresh air. I see now why some say that telecom takes vacation in August and many trade magazines skip a week or two rather than put out new articles. So what better to do than some site [...]
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Over on TMCNet, Rich Tehrani has an article on how the recent public spate of outages is hurting the Software as a Service (SaaS) movement. When Apple, Amazon or Google goes down, everyone notices, and hence fewer people will entertain the idea of outsourcing their software needs. Of course, none of this should surprise anyone [...]
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