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  1. Re:how do they do it today? on New Fiber Optic Signal Processing Technique Doubles Communication Distance · · Score: 1

    Yes. Although more and more amplifiers are either Raman effect based or hybrid Raman/EDFA.

  2. Re:Hidden agenda that might bite us? on Confirmed: FCC Will Try To Regulate Internet Under Title II · · Score: 2

    He didn't address peering at all, so it's possible that Comcast/VZ/ATT could still bottleneck their peering links to Google/Netflix/Amazon to reduce the amount of bandwidth their customers have access to without doing anything in 'the last mile'.

  3. Re:how do they do it today? on New Fiber Optic Signal Processing Technique Doubles Communication Distance · · Score: 1

    Raman amplifiers add zero latency. EDFA amplifiers add latency equivalent to the length of the fiber coil inside, which is going to be just a few microseconds.

  4. Re:how do they do it today? on New Fiber Optic Signal Processing Technique Doubles Communication Distance · · Score: 1

    No, it really doesn't. 5 microseconds per kilometer of latency.

  5. Re:how do they do it today? on New Fiber Optic Signal Processing Technique Doubles Communication Distance · · Score: 1

    The receive sensitivity on common '10G' DWDM optics is frequently down to -24 dBm or lower. That's less than a hundredth of a mw. So from that perspective, that +0 or +3 dBm is rocket hot. 100G optics aren't quite as sensitive, but still down to -14 or -17 or so depending on the specs.

  6. Re:how do they do it today? on New Fiber Optic Signal Processing Technique Doubles Communication Distance · · Score: 3, Informative

    This sort of thing is measured in dBm to make the math easier. Decibel Milliwatts, where 0 dBm = 1 mw and it's a logarithmic scale up and down from there.
    Individual channels are on the order of 0 to 5 dBm, or 1 to 3 mw. The composite signal coming out of an amplifier, which consists of multiple channels, is on the order of 20 dBm depending on how many channels are active and what the reach of the amplifier is. That's about 100 mw. Definitely a laser safety concern, but not military style death ray.

  7. Re:how do they do it today? on New Fiber Optic Signal Processing Technique Doubles Communication Distance · · Score: 1

    There are, which is why the electricity is at very high voltages to overcome it, which is why it attracts sharks. I'm more of a terrestrial guy, but if i remember correctly what they do is apply a very high + voltage on one end of the cable and a very high - voltage on the other end, and the amplifiers are powered in series inside of 'festoons' on the bottom of the ocean.

  8. Re:how do they do it today? on New Fiber Optic Signal Processing Technique Doubles Communication Distance · · Score: 4, Informative

    But there are still going to be amplifiers. They are referring to eliminating transponders, which we already don't use for modern sub-sea links. This is basically just 16QAM, but instead of using 4 symbols over 1 frequency, it's 2 symbols over 2 frequencies tightly spaced together. It's been understood for a while that widening the channels was probably the only way to go beyond 100gbps for a transmitter/receiver.

  9. Re:Slave Labour is certainly profitable on Apple Posts $18B Quarterly Profit, the Highest By Any Company, Ever · · Score: 1

    Cyaninc.com and Infinera.com products are made in the USA :)

  10. Re:Franchise Fees are evil on Comcast Pays Overdue Fees, Offers Freebies For TWC Merger Approval · · Score: 1

    Multiple competing cable companies would have multiple competing outside plants. The franchise fee was always just a way for the town council to exchange monopoly status for money in the coffers.

  11. Re:who is he? (Al Capone the tax evader) on Barrett Brown, Formerly of Anonymous, Sentenced To 63 Months · · Score: 1

    He deserves to spend years in prison for being a pretentious asshole? That's ridiculous.

  12. Re:Telecom sabotage - what's the penalty? on Blogger Who Revealed GOP Leader's KKK Ties Had Home Internet Lines Cut · · Score: 1

    If we catch you we sue the shit out of you. In addition to that, I'm sure plenty of other vandalism type criminal charges also apply if it's intentional.

  13. Re:Wait a minute on SpaceX Landing Attempt Video Released · · Score: 3, Informative

    Maybe they save weight by not providing a return line?

  14. Re:Radioshack doomed by inept management on Radio Shack Reported To Be Ready for Bankruptcy Filing · · Score: 1

    "Radioshack never offered what the consumers really wanted
    a good unlocked cell phone and our choice of prepaid plans." Unlocked phones don't provide the store residual payments like selling contracts does. That's the only thing that has kept Radioshack open this long.

  15. Re:Why a default? on Lizard Stresser DDoS-for-Hire Service Built On Hacked Home Routers · · Score: 1

    Just make the default password be the serial number of the device.

    So I pull the serial number with an SNMP get request as part of my exploit script using a community string that is either 'public' or something standardized across the ISP?
    Your move.

  16. Re:Correct me if I'm wrong... on Inside North Korea's Naenara Browser · · Score: 1

    Which seems like exactly what someone did. http://www.cnbc.com/id/1022920...

  17. Re:No matter how much power we gave them ... on MI5 Chief Seeks New Powers After Paris Magazine Attack · · Score: 1

    I tend to agree with most of what you said, but you should also keep in mind how many of those millions of Muslims are sending money overseas to 'charities' that are really fronts for ISIS, Hezbollah, Al Qaeda, whatever. Certainly far more than a few hundred people. I think those communities that are funneling money to fuel radicals overseas do have some responsibility for the deaths they cause, both abroad and at home and that has to be recognized internally before it will change.

  18. Re:In other words, it's a Utility. on The Luxury of a Bottomless Bucket of Bandwidth For Georgia Schools · · Score: 1

    Not really. The state just sub-contracts all this out to AT&T today, although they opened the bidding up to other carriers for the 2015 upgrade discussed in the article.

  19. Re:Better bill than the other net neutrality bills on Bill Would Ban Paid Prioritization By ISPs · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This still doesn't address the real problem, when an ISP degrades traffic which competes with their other revenue streams. I.E. a cable company degrading netflix traffic or a telephone company degrading skype.

  20. Re:It's complete crap on Crowds (and Pirates) Flock To 'The Interview' · · Score: 2

    I watched it and thought it was funny. I didn't expect academy award worthy acting, just some physical comedy, dirty jokes, and special effects. It had all three and a sweet russian tank. T-54 I think.

  21. Re:I don't see what the Telcos have to do... on Govt Docs Reveal Canadian Telcos Promise Surveillance Ready Networks · · Score: 1

    Except that everyone is not doing this. The data collected by the big routers and voice switches can still be very incriminating to someone of a criminal or political, but I repeat myself, inclination. All of these capabilities are built into the hardware because the US government and other governments around the world requires it as part of 'lawful intercept' regulations.

  22. Re:Byebye Node.js. on Node.js Forked By Top Contributors · · Score: 4, Funny

    If these PEOPLE know how to play it right, Node.js is history. HE/SHE had the same thing with the Mambo Fork Joomla. Hardly anyone (POSSIBLY HAVING A PENIS BUT POSSIBLY NOT) remembers Mambo anymore, and Joomla is a leading project.

    FTFY

  23. Re:Actually what reduced crime on 'Moneyball' Approach Reduces Crime In New York City · · Score: 2, Informative

    Actually what reduced the crime was the Cosby Show. Since that show came out crime stats have gotten better and better.

  24. Re:Let me be the first to say on Head of FCC Proposes Increasing Internet School Fund · · Score: 1

    I've never seen that. WAN links typically all aggregate back to the BOE/DOE headquarters in the county, or a large high school, and then there is an IP service that is also leased. The WAN links are generally 1GE or 10GE and the IP service then is provided to that location as a separate product and circuit and usually is 'right sized' to be anywhere from 250 mbps to 2-3gbps depending on the size of the county. Usually that IP service is still overkill. I'm not saying that based on "Oh that looks like way too much for a school" but "Wow these guys are peaking at 4% max utilization on that link" ellipsis ellipsis ellipsis

  25. Re:Let me be the first to say on Head of FCC Proposes Increasing Internet School Fund · · Score: 1

    Actually I work for a company that specializes in rural areas. Not Alaska or Wyoming rural, but we've built fiber into schools in towns too small for a gas station.
    Like I said, if you fill out the right forms there is a ton of funding available.