Despite the fact that I’ve been trying to explain why companies like Time Warner need to impose broadband usage caps on their systems before going to the capital markets for assistance in beefing up their innards, I’m not a fan of usage caps generally. They’re a very crude tool for imposing an equitable distribution of [...]
Courtesy of James Duncan Davidson, here’s a snap from the Spectrum 2.0 panel at eComm09.
The general discussion was about the lessons learned from light licensing of wireless spectrum in the US, on the success of Wi-Fi and the failure of UWB, and what we can realistically hope to gain from the White Spaces licensing regime. [...]
Commenting on the pending FCC action against Comcast, the CDT’s David Sohn says most of what needs to be said:
In order to engage in enforcement, there needs to be either:
(1) An existing, articulated rule or standard against which to judge behavior;
or
(2) Authority for the enforcement body to adjudicate and issue rulings based on general notions [...]
Dana Blankenhorn is excited about Netgear’s announcement that it’s fully supporting a router intended to run open source software, but he’s off on the relevance of the hardware:
MyOpenRouter offers developers a comprehensive user guide, applications forums and downloads. Best of all this isn’t a stinky would-not-sell-otherwise router. It’s got an internal diversity antenna to improve [...]
My latest piece for The Register is up: Dismantling a Religion: The EFF’s Faith-Based Internet. In it, I explore the difference between the way the EFF wants to manage the Internet and the new way the IETF folks are discussing.
Bottom line: the Internet has never had a user-based fairness system, and it needs one. [...]
Would you like to have a fat Internet connection to your home? If we can agree that 100 Mb/s in both directions would qualify as “fat”. you should be able to have your way in a year or two, three at the most. Here’s a quick survey of the alternatives.
First. we have a clue as [...]
I was issued a patent recently, United States Patent: 7239626. It’s a clever little way to tightly synchronize clocks in a wireless network. My co-inventors, Srini Kandala and John Kowalski, do this sort of thing all the time.
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There seems to be a huge disconnect on the nature of the magic box proposed to the FCC by the Usual Suspects to reclaim whitespace abandoned by analog TV:
A coalition of big technology companies wants to bring high-speed Internet access to consumers in a new way: over television airwaves. Key to the project is whether [...]
The reaction of the Apple faithful to the disclosure of a security hole in the design of Apple OSX was amazing. A couple of guys figured out that you could trick OSX into executing some foreign code with root privilege by sending a malformed packet to a third-party wireless LAN card. The guys – David [...]
My friends in Palo Alto have topped themselves with a new chippie:
Airgo Networks today announced its third generation True MIMO chipset with support for data rates up to 240 Mbps. The company said its technology makes wire-free offices a reality…
“When MIMO was first unveiled, it reversed over 100 years of scientific thinking by harnessing natural [...]
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