One of the greatest challenges facing small ISP companies isn’t necessarily the connection to individual customers, but rather the backhaul portion of their network by which their customers are connected to the rest of the Internet. Often, these companies must lease bandwidth from larger companies like AT&T whose infrastructure comprise the backbone of the Internet [...]
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Tags: Allied Fiber, backhaul, broadband, fiber, FTTH, infrastructure, Internet 
1 Comment »Robert Cailliau, along with Tim Berners-Lee, co-developed the World Wide Web decades ago. Without his work, the Internet as we know it today probably wouldn’t exist. So needless to say, when he speaks, people tend to listen. The folks at TechCrunch recently snagged an interesting interview with him in which he opines about several topics [...]
Posted in Internet, Web Technology Tags: Facebook, Internet, privacy, Robert Cailliau, Tim Berners-Lee 1 Comment »In what can only be described as an underhanded jab at Apple, Google has decided to endorse and include Adobe’s Flash technology in future versions of its extremely popular Chrome web browser. As the proxy wars between these two companies heat up on several fronts, such as Apple’s lawsuit against Google smartphone ally HTC, Google undoubtedly [...]
Posted in Google, Internet, PCs and Laptops, Software, Web Browsers, Web Technology Tags: Adobe, Adobe Flash, API, Apple, Google, Google Chrome, HTML5 No Comments »With the pace of technology moving as fast as it does, early adopters often find themselves committed to one of several competing technologies that may not survive to large scale maturity (think HD-DVD vs Bluray). Because of this, it’s really easy to appreciate devices that combine compatibility between rival platforms, thus offering a hedge to [...]
Posted in Internet, Networking, PCs and Laptops, Web Technology, Wireless Tags: 4G, Beceem, LTE, Motorola, WiMAX 1 Comment »