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It probably is that straightforward. XO Communications, the U.S. ISP, apparently supplies a 2.5Gbps pipeline directly to the U.S. from China The bastards are using this link to try and hack us.

I looked into this because my FTP server was getting the dictionary thrown at it (happens regularly to that and everything else). Using ARIN, APNIC traceroute etc, I kept coming up with XO local IP addresses with Beijing physical addresses.

Does anyone know anything about this link? Does anyone else think it could possibly be a security issue? I'm going to ACL their asses right off my network if they don't knock it off.

Well, this is cool, but what does it mean? A startup in San Diego (Luxtera) is already sampling both monolithic multi channel xfp modules made entirely from silicon (minus the laser which is indium phosphate), and also makes a silicon dwdm system as well. There have been a couple of news releases lately.

News about DWDM
http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/in dex.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20061017005207& newsLang=en

Darpa Grant Continues
http://www.convergedigest.com/DWDM/DWDMarticle.asp ?ID=19886

How many people own computers in their homes? About 79%.

Now, how many own TVs? Greater than 99%.

...the Hong Kong bandwidth was all being used to the max (and on the brink of crashing the Internet). So that's the real reason of the suing!

A clarification:

Powell was appointed to the FCC commission in 1997 by the Clinton administration. The commission is an attempt at bipartisanship. Powell is a republican.

He was appointed chairman of the FCC in January of 2001, right after Bush began his term.

One source is here

Um, he's not exactly a genius with the video idea... it's already being done!

As far as VOIP:
Info from 2002.
Info from today.

I have 70Mbps VDSL, up from 24Mbps ADSL. Sumitomo's MegabitGear does 70 Mbps, for example, but my kit is NEC. Infineon and others are working on 150 Mbps.

In Utah, incumbent monopoly telco Qwest's modest investment of $50,000 in campaign contributions and its' powerful lobbyists (one is the son-in-law of the State Senate President) may be enough to kill the UTOPIA 18-city initiative to build a publicly-owned FTTH (fiber to the home) system. A bill (openly crafted by Qwest) that would effectively outlaw city's financing the project sailed out of the Senate and threatens to become law. This action comes after 18 city councils have voted to join UTOPIA and 6 have already made financial guarantees . The UTOPIA system is based on an open-access model allowing multiple competing providers to offer voice, data and video services to subscribers.

This comes as the Salt Lake City Tribune, a strong foe of the UTOPIA initiative, ran an article wondering why Utah is losing its' position as a major technology center.

There are more UTOPIA links at http://communityfiber.blogspot.com/2004_02_08_comm unityfiber_archive.html#107630357108945975

Anybody know what the lowdown is on Full Rate Extended DSL? The PR sounds like it could get DSL out to those of us in the sticks without having to put up masts or invest $800 in proprietary gear (our current options).
Perhaps more imporantly, how do I get Verizon to put beta test it in my neighborhood?

Granted there are still situations where this may work well for some; calling someone who is already on-line, a co-worker perhaps, or quickly calling someone overseas and asking them to get on-line.

When they have the ability to connect you to a "regular" telephone there will be charges -- some local telco will want their termination fees after all... And now, suddenly, without ads and spyware, they need billing systems, support, etc. And they are suddenly competing with folks like Vonage and capturing the attention of regulators, again like Vonage.

On the whole, however, the *masses* don't care that their calls are carried via P2P VOIP or some other technology. They'll put up with a little work or invonvenience to get a deal on rates so long as the quality is there (and I'll give these folks the benefit of the doubt on that) but most folks generally aren't at their machine 24x7 to make and receive calls.

On the other hand, they already have a service that is always on, requires no waiting for a system and software to start, requires no presence awareness/coordination, that works well, and has a very simple interface. (i.e. Their existing landline or mobile phone.)

You may have to pay for services like Vonage, but it's a good deal and once it's set up it "just works" from what I understand. It looks like AT&T is going to affer a similar service as well.

Thus, in the end, I think this this will be mostly used by folks avoiding expensive international tolls, or co-workers from time-to-time, but not much beyond that.

The increases in performance and range are pretty minimal. An additional 50kbps and 600ft of range isn't all that impressive, although the fact that it is backwards compatible with some existing hardware is semi-promising.

Anyway, here's some extra info on ADSL2, or G.bis that i dug up:

http://www.aware.com/products/DSL/gbisadsl2.htm
http://www.convergedigest.com/Silicon/siliconartic le.asp?ID=5435
http://www.dslprime.com/a/adsl21.pdf(sorry about the pdf)

Recently on Slashdot there was an article complaining about the increasing costs of broadband yet the fact of the matter is that a large number of large telecoms are going out of business because they spent too much, too fast and make too little to keep up with their debts.

Global Crossing, PSINet, and STAR all bankrupt while WorldCom, in trouble and Qwest taking a several hundred million dollar loss it looks like the number of telecommunications companies is shrinking fast and it is unclear what will happen to their networks.

Not to be a contrarian, but this just goes to show that things aren't really black and white when it comes to the cost of broadband and in fact we may be getting it cheaply considering how much was spent building the networks.

Palo Alto: http://www.cpau.com/fth/

Somewhere in Virginia: http://newscenter.verizon.com/proactive/newsroom/r elease.vtml?id=69074

Theres always good info on this sort of technology here:

http://www.convergedigest.com/DSL/ftth.asp

802.3ae, as the IEEE lovingly calls it, is backed by the 10GEA (10 Gbps Ethernet Alliance). The founding members of the 10GEA are small companies you might have heard of such as 3Com, Cisco, Intel, Nortel or Sun.

802.3ae, as the IEEE lovingly calls it, is backed by the 10GEA (10 Gbps Ethernet Alliance). The founding members of the 10GEA are small companies you might have heard of such as 3Com, Cisco, Intel, Nortel or Sun.