Articles about Broadband Services

Google’s announcement that the company will install a gigabit fiber network in Kansas City, Kan., may give the stagnant Internet infrastructure industry the kick in the pants it needs to offer world-class service to customers. Continue Reading »

You can’t help but wonder with all the recent advances in network infrastructure technology these days why the quality of the networking services that customers actually receive is still such an issue. Continue Reading »

My high-speed Internet service was out for four days last week because of a massive snow storm. The closest thing I had to Internet access was my BlackBerry, and only then when the cell sites were available, which much of the time, they weren’t. And, service agreement or not, my broadband provider couldn’t restore my service since it didn’t have the means to power the network infrastructure. Continue Reading »

In the State of the Union speech, President Obama made a lot of proposals and promises about the role of technology in the economic future of the United States. If he gets everything he wants, we could see everything from thousands of newly-minted engineers and scientists to a national wireless broadband network, to virtually universal clean energy. Continue Reading »

On Wednesday, Time Magazine picked Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg as its "Person of the Year." This is remarkable for a couple of reasons: the first because he achieved this honor at such a young age (only Charles Lindberg was younger), and second because of the nature of his accomplishment. Continue Reading »

If there was any question about why Cisco's CRS-3 router that I mentioned last week was so important, that question was answered this week when the FCC released its National Broadband Plan to Congress. Continue Reading »

Like it or not, business processes and the applications that support them are moving out to the Web. Continue Reading »