In the nearly 20 years that the Internet has been in private hands, it has been an engine of innovation throughout the world. In our society today, we use the Internet for applications that could not have been conceived of when the Department of Defense (DoD) initially constructed the Internet’s predecessor, the DARPAnet. The Internet has [...]
For several months there have been leaks about how Google plans to enter the set top space by offering Android-driven, broadband-powered set tops that aim to recreate the Internet experience on your television set. While Internet video is still no real threat to traditional TV, it certainly could be with the introduction of a cheap, [...]
Verizon this week unveiled their plans to join the cable industry’s “TV Everywhere” initiative — which involves offering paying TV customers (only) the ability to watch some paywalled content online. The industry believes the idea will help them prevent “cord cutters” — or those who turn to Internet video as an alternative to those now [...]
As we recently explored, Internet video currently isn’t much of a threat to the multi-billion-dollar traditional TV broadcast industry — though it’s only a matter of time before faster broadband and easy, cheap devices and services more seriously challenge old-school TV. Most “cable guys” are infinitely confident in their ability to hold off the Internet [...]
Buoyed by strong sales of data and Internet services, tw telecom’s (Nasdaq: TWTC) Q1 revenue rose to $311.2 million, a 5 percent increase from $297.6 million in Q1 09. A key contributor to tw telecom’s Q1 revenue growth was 15 percent increase in data and Internet services including its Ethernet and IP-based products. As of [...]
We’ve of course seen endless prognostications over the last five years about how the pool of 4.3 billion IPv4 addresses are running out, and the migration to IPv6 should probably pick up the pace. Some current projections have the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) pool of IP addresses being fully depleted by the end of [...]
Last week Illinois regulators (with a little personal last-minute help from Illinois Governor Pat Quinn and some Verizon talking points) approved Verizon’s $8.5 billion plan to offload millions of phone and DSL customers to Frontier Communications. The deal was approved despite protests from a state Judge and her 47-page report — highlighting very clearly how [...]
Remember the “Exaflood”? the idea that if you don’t give carriers whatever they’d like (less regulation, no net neutrality laws, no price controls, huge subsidies and tax credits, less consumer protection, metered billing) the Internet will grind to a halt and we’ll all be crying over our clogged tubes? The concept has been debunked countless [...]
Yesterday we noted how next week’s upgrades of the thirteen root DNS servers with DNSSEC security upgrades probably wouldn’t be noticed by most customers, despite some claims to the contrary. Comcast and even OpenDNS CEO David Ulevitch stopped by in our comments to reiterate this fact. The upgrades are designed to help protect the DNS [...]
DIRECTV is tuning into the idea that a multi dwelling units (MDU) existing copper wiring is a sound conduit to deliver a triple play package (video, broadband Internet and VoIP) to residential subscribers. The satellite service provider is making that dream a reality by combining its IPAdvantage satellite-based IP platform with Alcatel-Lucent’s VDSL2 technology and [...]