Tag: Internet

August 23, 2019

The Earth is a watery place. H2O covers 71% of our planet’s surface, and vast oceans separate countries and continents by thousands of miles. Yet, nations and peoples are drawing closer than at any point before in history. Certainly, some […]

August 8, 2019

The Internet Ecosystem Innovation Committee continues to add new members as it steps into its chosen role of promoting collaboration across communities interested in creating new internet nexus points. Virginia Commonwealth University has joined the organization as a founding member, […]

July 12, 2019

Sparkle has shifted its presence in the African country of Djibouti to the Djibouti Data Center. That facility will now serve as the global internet backbone’s hub for expansion to eastern and southern Africa. Sparkle has been in Djibouti since […]

July 10, 2019

Telefónica has extended the reach of its resale internet access service to more than 30 countries across Latin America and Europe. The carrier’s wholesale business unit, Telefonica International Wholesale Services (TIWS), is offering the service to other carriers that want […]

July 5, 2019

While everyone (in the US) enjoys the long Independence Day weekend, here’s a quick look at an interesting item I missed from ITW week. A new organization aiming to stimulate the growth of new regional internet hubs around the world, […]

April 30, 2019

PlanetOne, the IT and telecom industry’s preferred connectivity partner, today announced Frontier Communications, is now part of its growing portfolio of preferred providers. With the addition of Frontier Communications, PlanetOne is bringing an expanded offering of connectivity, unified communications and […]

April 30, 2019

More than 100,000 rural homes and businesses in 43 states will get a minimum of 25 Mbps download and 3 Mbps upload speeds, rather than 10 Mbps/1 Mbps speeds that would otherwise have been deployed, according to the Federal Communications […]

April 8, 2019

JVC Professional Video, a division of JVCKENWOOD USA Corporation, has continued to develop its CONNECTED CAM family of products to create the most resilient video transport over the internet. CONNECTED CAM was launched last year with the GY-HC900, a 2/3-inch […]

March 4, 2019

Last year MWC was the time of minimum knowledge and maximum hype for blockchain. Now we have much less hype, but there are also much more real uses for blockchain. Edge has had much less general hype, rather it has […]

February 28, 2019

The shockwaves from Windstream’s loss in court last week continue to spread. Following Windstream’s Chapter 11 filing, Uniti Group has decided to postpone its earnings call from Thursday until sometime before March 18, 2019. More than half of Uniti’s revenue […]

February 5, 2019

For the vast majority of IT shops, a functional, centrally controlled wireless LAN (WLAN) is one of the most valuable infrastructure elements provided. Using the ubiquitous Wi-Fi standards, WLANs have become the most common portal for wireless-equipped laptops and smartphones […]

December 27, 2018

Standards have had a profound impact on the evolution of networking. TCP/IP, BGP, HTTP, SMTP — all of these have enabled the creation of the Internet, content hyperlinking, and personal communication. In recent years, it seems standards have had a […]

September 25, 2018

The UN Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development have moved to accelerate efforts to connect the roughly 50% of the world’s population that still do not have access to the internet. Participants at the commission’s annual third quarter meeting, including representatives […]

September 7, 2018

Despite whimsical ads about computing “in the cloud,” the internet lives on the ground. Data centers are built on land, and most of the physical elements of the internet – such as the cables that connect households to internet services […]

June 12, 2018

Net neutrality has officially been repealed and internet service providers (ISPs) now have greater powers. Officials voice their concern as the new rules may lead to the creation of a two-speed Internet and special treatment for a certain type of […]

June 11, 2018

Your ability to watch and use your favorite apps and services could start to change—though not right away—following the official demise Monday of Obama-era internet protections. Any changes are likely to happen slowly, as companies assess how much consumers will […]

April 19, 2018

The US Federal Communications Commission last month granted Elon Musk’s SpaceX permission to launch 4,425 satellites that will provide affordable high speed broadband internet to consumers. The Starlink network will be accessible in the US and around the world – […]

March 22, 2018

After the FCC’s debatable decision in December that effectively eliminated Obama Administration directives aimed at protecting Internet neutrality, a series of legislative and political actions at the state and federal level took place. In March, Washington became the first state […]

March 6, 2018

Security concerns are regularly cited as the number one IoT deployment concern or barrier to adoption. “Security” covers a wide swath of considerations, both in terms of prevention and reaction. One of the first things that every expert acknowledges is that […]

February 27, 2018

CDNs have greatly improved our online experience. The CDN-H project has studied its implications for the internet’s structure and the relationship between stakeholders. Google has recently announced that page speed would now be a factor in mobile search ranking. This […]