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How OpenFlow and SDNs can solve consumers’ broadband woes
Nick Feamster of Georgia Tech When it comes to home broadband networks, consumers are like toddlers, demanding everything they want, when they want it, delivered with no buffering, pixelation or slowdowns. Carriers are like parents, giving them limits and caps … Continue reading
Behind the Netflix PAC: a broadband power play
Netflix has formed its own political action committee called Flixpac, and my sources indicate that the biggest issues it plans to tackle will be how to let folks share their movies on social networks and the more nuanced issues of … Continue reading
The good and bad of niche broadband networks
Niche broadband networks, built by communities, universities and others to cover areas big ISPs wouldn’t, are doing well in the U.K according to a study out Monday by PointTopic. As the U.S. sees its broadband competition dwindle on the wireline side, this … Continue reading
How many signed up for broadband in 2011?
The eighteen largest cable and telephone companies that account for 93 percent of the broadband market added 3 million net subscribers during 2011, according to data from Leichtman Research Group, a Durham, NH-based market research group. At the end of 2011, … Continue reading
What’s most precious to The Hobbit? Broadband!
Shooting and sharing movie footage all over New Zealand makes for connectivity challenges, but the crew of The Hobbit is making do. But not with magic; heck, even a powerful wizard such as Gandalf has limitations. Instead, portable satellite dishes … Continue reading