The Internet is generally thought of as a tool that is used by organizations to transact business, or by individuals to communicate, research or get entertained. For those of us that are concerned about the sustainability of the Earths resources, and our ability to support billions of people at the [...]
Buried in the $800 billion economic stimulus package that President-elect Obama is pushing is a serious incentive package for our US communications companies to improve bandwidth speeds. In an article written by Kenneth Corbin, the background is set..."The broadband stimulus proposals come amid growing concern that the United States is [...]
Back on April 11th I wrote about the future of WiMAX and how I see it changing the way we view the Internet. Since then we have seen some significant movement in the WiMAX space. Sprint's XOHM and Clearwire combined their networks to create a mobile broadband company with an [...]
Cisco Grows Offerings in 2007 Last month Cisco acquired Navini Networks, a company that had made its name in the WiMax field with installs on 6 continents according to their old site. (I guess there is no commercial need for WiMax on Antarctica?) Cisco has been quietly buying and re-branding [...]
Google Manufacturing Optical Switches Google has been quietly making their own optical switches. This is not a shocking development, as they already build their own servers, so you can really see this as just one more arena where Google is using in house technology to make hardware to their own [...]