Our WAN and service provider e-mail news alert.
ISPs to rural U.S.: Live with dial-up, 08/27/07: You can’t get there from here. That old New England saw is an apt metaphor for the state of high-speed rural broadband. While many telecommunications carriers are posting record profits this year, millions of U.S. homes and businesses still have no access to broadband — and that’s no coincidence.
MPLS proposal spawns IETF, ITU turf war, 08/30/07: The IETF and ITU standards bodies are sparring over a set of MPLS specifications that some say could lead to massive interoperability issues for service providers if left unchanged.
Notes from OPNETWORK 2007: Cisco Subnet blogger Jeff Doyle writes: “OPNET has a new IPv6 planning and analysis module for their network modeling platform, and invited me to their OPNETWORK technology conference to get some hands-on time with it.”
Current EarthLink deal with SF looks dead, 08/29/07: EarthLink’s current contract to build a municipal Wi-Fi network in San Francisco appears to be dead following a restructuring of the struggling ISP.
Former Juniper lawyer faces backdating charge, 08/29/07: Juniper Networks has been caught up in the stock options backdating scandal as a former general counsel for the network equipment company is charged with violating the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission accounting rules.
Indian software outsourcers focus on reuse, 08/29/07: Up against competition for markets and for hiring staff, Indian software outsourcers are focusing on building reusable software that automates specific business processes. These software components can in turn be used across a number of clients, saving costs and time.
The schism between the applications team and the rest of IT, 08/28/07: The last newsletter mentioned the forthcoming IT Roadmap conference that Network World is producing at the Adams’s Mark hotel in Dallas on Sept. 6. That newsletter also discussed some of the topics that we’ve talked about in recent newsletter and that Jim will cover in his two keynotes at the ITR conference.
