Archive for March, 2010
Fear The Climate Scientists
Tuesday, March 30th, 2010When Journalism Turns Really Ugly
Tuesday, March 30th, 2010Hope and Change?
Tuesday, March 30th, 2010Where’s The Denuncition?
Monday, March 29th, 2010ObamaCare Details Emerge
Monday, March 29th, 2010iPad Content Ready to Roll
Monday, March 29th, 2010MacRumors reports that National Public Radio (NPR) and The Wall Street Journal are already getting ready to roll out Web sites designed specifically for the Apple iPad. Expect many more newpapers and magazines to announce iPad versions of their content over the next several months, with the iPad set to ship to buyers in the next 30 days. One of the interesting side effects--Adobe may have lost the Flash war. The content providers are beginning to report that they are creating "Flash free" sites. Apple has long contended that Flash, used for many kinds of multimedia content on the Web, is buggy and slow compared to using Java and some other video protocols.
Newsleader Censors Philbilly’s LTE?
Monday, March 29th, 2010FCC endorses 100 megabit broadband
Monday, March 29th, 2010The FCC has rolled out the first look at its plan for broadband. The agency has set a goal of 100 megabit broadband to 100 million households in the next ten years, calling it "100 Squared." It's a good goal, and one that Design Nine has been promoting for many years. Our projects, like nDanville and The Wired Road, have had 100 megabit connections from day one, and we design our networks to support not only 100 megabit speeds, but Gigabit, 10Gig, 40Gig, and DWDM (Dense Wave Division Multiplexing) lightpaths.
Hey JC Wilmore - Obama Donor arrested for Eric Cantor death threat
Monday, March 29th, 2010Interesting comment on community broadband
Monday, March 29th, 2010Here is an interesting comment on the Lafayette, Louisiana fiber network.
All of this is just the tip of the iceberg. There is much more to come, and much of those are things that I don't even envision myself. If we go back to the early days of electricity in the 1890s, I'm convinced that Thomas Edison never envisioned the microwave oven or the TV-- much less the computer. This fiber capability, this infrastructure, is in its infancy and that's why Lafayette is going to be on the front edge of that development.
Light posting
Monday, March 29th, 2010My apologies for the light posting recently. We've been head down shoveling stimulus proposals out the door for the last three weeks. We worked on seven stimulus proposals in four states worth a combined $68 million. Now it is just back to our regular work--planning and building broadband networks. Call us if you need help.