I think it mite be a good idea to let microsoft make antivirus software. Norton, Mcafee, and Bitdefender are all pretty shity desktop products. I would love to see mcshitty and Norton improve there support and provide better support for there products, currently they are shit. I would like to see someone resolve all the outstanding issues with these two products.
What i suspect will proabbly happen though is microsoft will just resell someone elses product like sophos or bitdefender and put a pretty skin on it like they did with there wifi products. Its about time though someone offered some real competion to this market.
I think there a couple of things that need to be addressed before one starts suggesting ideas on how to set this up.
Is this going to be 30 single family detached homes or is this going to be 30 housing units in one building? Do you need a 100% fool proof network with room to grow? Or can a virus infestation that crashes your switches and routers be tolerated? What services are you going to provide? I would asume at the minmum VoIP and Data. You may also want to provide VOD and PPV TV as well as regular cable tv services. Also is there a chance the system will need to be expanded for more units, are there chances of being able to spread those capital costs with more and more users?
This is a new install. There is no point in suggesting DSL or ISDN or wireless from the last mile. You need around 100mbs to each home to provide quality VOIP, Cable TV, and Data. You will need some way to control the amount of traffic on each service. You will also need to provide some way of bundling this information together. Installing fiber is cheaper over installing copper in a new install to begin with. The part that may be expensive is the capital infustructure. Regardless of wether you using fiber or coper this will be expensive. You will need expensive switches and some way to bundle all the services into one pipe.
You may want to do some investigation into the technology that Yahoo Japan employs for there broadband system.
In the dwellings you will want to have 2-3 cat 5 outlets. 1 for phone, 1 for TV, 1 for data. You may also want to have each dwelling have its own private internal network as well as such you may want to put 4 cat connections in each room and set up one connection to goto a switch that has its own vlan for the unit. You are going to have to proabbly include a requirement that on the sale of each dwelling the ocupants are bound to a contract of 10 years for the service. They will also have to lease most of the equipment as well over that period. So you can control and re-coop the costs. Oviously this system will want to operate as a non-profit group but be-able to invest in infustructure over the life of the system 10-50 years.
You will also need to take into account support and ongoing maintance. You should proabbly hire a company that does this and is bound to provide you with a minimum service level on maintance and support. Look at a company like this one to get you up and running and look after your network: Empower
Actually crappy Canadian Productions tend to be in Toronto. Some examples:
-Viper
-Kung Fu
-Earth Final Conflict
-Various Canadian TV shows, that forget the rest of the world is bigger than Toronto
Good TV Shows produced in Vancouver:
-X-Files (After season 6 was moved to LA, at which point it sucked!)
-The Outer Limits
-Stargate SG-1
-Stargate Atlantis (Never seen an episode, pre-production is underway)
-Battlestar Galatica (although, it remains to be seen how well this will do)
Big Movies Filmed in Vancouver:
-X-men 2
-Scarry Movie
-I-Robot
-Double Jeopardy
-Catwoman
-Jumanji
-Dreamcatcher
-And the list goes on....
Vancouver is also known as "Hollywood North" and for good reason. Many of the better shows on TV not done on a stage are made here. So Be carefull about blaiming Canada. After all we did come up with South Park.
I work on an Helpdesk. I cringe when people use the world AOL. I get a large number of people calling me telling me AOL told them there modem is dead.
I frequently spend 20-30 minutes of troubleshooting modems only to find its the AOL software. I then tell people that rather then using AOL use another ISP. I tell them to avoid Earthlink, AOL, and MSN. I suggest they look at ISP's that are locally based.
I think that AOL's software and email makes American's dumber. It allows people to live in a shielded world that lacks any understanding of how things like email really work.
I also have to deal with people having trouble sending to aol and recieving email from AOL. One other type of business i have to deal with is an email forwarding service. Many of the members of this email forwarding service have there mail forwarded to aol. Every so often AOL decides to block this customer. So this Customer got tired of handling the support calls from there members using AOL that they put in there monthly newsletter reason why you should not use AOL as your ISP and since that we have barely gotten any AOL related calls.
Unlike like the NDP the BC Liberals last budget had the highest amount of spending and debt in BC history. The only way the province was able to balance the books was to use the goverment credit card to transfer some of the spending onto the goverment credit card. I should also point out that the BC Liberals are not the same as the federal Liberals.
It should also be noted that the BC Liberals are great at burning money for example selling the Fast cats at less then 20 million dollars when it cost over 300 million to build them. The constant intrest in spliting up BC Hydro which was/is a cash cow for the BC Goverment.
Under the BC Liberals spending in BC has grown and taxes have been cut. I have yet to see any of this new prosperity and more money in my pocket. The fact of the matter is the BC goverment has its balls in a vice and the public unions in this province are constantly tightning that vice. Often the unions in this province often have very narrow minded vision. This explains many of the recent layoffs and turning to outsourcing in many hospital and health services. The same thing happened many years ago with the ministry of highways.
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I think it mite be a good idea to let microsoft make antivirus software. Norton, Mcafee, and Bitdefender are all pretty shity desktop products. I would love to see mcshitty and Norton improve there support and provide better support for there products, currently they are shit. I would like to see someone resolve all the outstanding issues with these two products. What i suspect will proabbly happen though is microsoft will just resell someone elses product like sophos or bitdefender and put a pretty skin on it like they did with there wifi products. Its about time though someone offered some real competion to this market.
I think there a couple of things that need to be addressed before one starts suggesting ideas on how to set this up.
Is this going to be 30 single family detached homes or is this going to be 30 housing units in one building? Do you need a 100% fool proof network with room to grow? Or can a virus infestation that crashes your switches and routers be tolerated? What services are you going to provide? I would asume at the minmum VoIP and Data. You may also want to provide VOD and PPV TV as well as regular cable tv services. Also is there a chance the system will need to be expanded for more units, are there chances of being able to spread those capital costs with more and more users?
This is a new install. There is no point in suggesting DSL or ISDN or wireless from the last mile. You need around 100mbs to each home to provide quality VOIP, Cable TV, and Data. You will need some way to control the amount of traffic on each service. You will also need to provide some way of bundling this information together. Installing fiber is cheaper over installing copper in a new install to begin with. The part that may be expensive is the capital infustructure. Regardless of wether you using fiber or coper this will be expensive. You will need expensive switches and some way to bundle all the services into one pipe.
You may want to do some investigation into the technology that Yahoo Japan employs for there broadband system.
In the dwellings you will want to have 2-3 cat 5 outlets. 1 for phone, 1 for TV, 1 for data. You may also want to have each dwelling have its own private internal network as well as such you may want to put 4 cat connections in each room and set up one connection to goto a switch that has its own vlan for the unit. You are going to have to proabbly include a requirement that on the sale of each dwelling the ocupants are bound to a contract of 10 years for the service. They will also have to lease most of the equipment as well over that period. So you can control and re-coop the costs. Oviously this system will want to operate as a non-profit group but be-able to invest in infustructure over the life of the system 10-50 years.
You will also need to take into account support and ongoing maintance. You should proabbly hire a company that does this and is bound to provide you with a minimum service level on maintance and support. Look at a company like this one to get you up and running and look after your network: Empower
Take it from a Canadian on Broadband.
Actually crappy Canadian Productions tend to be in Toronto. Some examples:
-Viper
-Kung Fu
-Earth Final Conflict
-Various Canadian TV shows, that forget the rest of the world is bigger than Toronto
Good TV Shows produced in Vancouver:
-X-Files (After season 6 was moved to LA, at which point it sucked!)
-The Outer Limits
-Stargate SG-1
-Stargate Atlantis (Never seen an episode, pre-production is underway)
-Battlestar Galatica (although, it remains to be seen how well this will do)
Big Movies Filmed in Vancouver:
-X-men 2
-Scarry Movie
-I-Robot
-Double Jeopardy
-Catwoman
-Jumanji
-Dreamcatcher
-And the list goes on....
Vancouver is also known as "Hollywood North" and for good reason. Many of the better shows on TV not done on a stage are made here. So Be carefull about blaiming Canada. After all we did come up with South Park.
I work on an Helpdesk. I cringe when people use the world AOL. I get a large number of people calling me telling me AOL told them there modem is dead.
I frequently spend 20-30 minutes of troubleshooting modems only to find its the AOL software. I then tell people that rather then using AOL use another ISP. I tell them to avoid Earthlink, AOL, and MSN. I suggest they look at ISP's that are locally based.
I think that AOL's software and email makes American's dumber. It allows people to live in a shielded world that lacks any understanding of how things like email really work.
I also have to deal with people having trouble sending to aol and recieving email from AOL. One other type of business i have to deal with is an email forwarding service. Many of the members of this email forwarding service have there mail forwarded to aol. Every so often AOL decides to block this customer. So this Customer got tired of handling the support calls from there members using AOL that they put in there monthly newsletter reason why you should not use AOL as your ISP and since that we have barely gotten any AOL related calls.
My though is who in IT really uses AOL ?
Unlike like the NDP the BC Liberals last budget had the highest amount of spending and debt in BC history. The only way the province was able to balance the books was to use the goverment credit card to transfer some of the spending onto the goverment credit card. I should also point out that the BC Liberals are not the same as the federal Liberals.
It should also be noted that the BC Liberals are great at burning money for example selling the Fast cats at less then 20 million dollars when it cost over 300 million to build them. The constant intrest in spliting up BC Hydro which was/is a cash cow for the BC Goverment.
Under the BC Liberals spending in BC has grown and taxes have been cut. I have yet to see any of this new prosperity and more money in my pocket. The fact of the matter is the BC goverment has its balls in a vice and the public unions in this province are constantly tightning that vice. Often the unions in this province often have very narrow minded vision. This explains many of the recent layoffs and turning to outsourcing in many hospital and health services. The same thing happened many years ago with the ministry of highways.
How about an Orbital Assault from a Go'uld mothership. Then use hetacs to shuttle the Gafa down to the surface?
I got an 80gig HD... Yah more room.. and an electric tooth brush... Thats all I need yah know another peice of crap I can't afford to charge.