Linkfest
Bleacherreport: Paul Allen's Qwest
FC: Charter Communications revenues up; video changes coming
"Charter is digging more deeply into the convergence between linear video and online content by creating a "hybrid platform that leverages traditional cable and next-generation IP" and uses an iPad application as a "command central" to give subscribers the ability to browse and schedule recordings and access certain recorded content"
STLToday:
Charter loses $85 million
MC: Charter Looks To Snag Dial-Up Customers
Cable360: CableLabs Issues DPoE Specifications
LR: Cable FTTP Goes Standard
DSLReports: 2-5% Of Your Bill Actually Goes To Bandwidth
Online video guides:
http://trakt.tv/
http://www.clicker.com/
MW: Google Docs secrets: 20 power tips
[this might basically be the long rumored G-Drive]
Fortune: Google user-managed storage launches with up to 16 terabytes of space
[if you're using Windows as your OS this may change your mind]
Ars: Black ops: how HBGary wrote backdoors for the government
LR: Comcast Preps a Docsis 3.0 Boost
"Comcast has been testing upstream channel bonding on its "Extreme" Docsis 3.0 tiers that, for now, cap the upstream at 10 Mbit/s. Upstream channel bonding would let Comcast raise that ceiling. At last year's event, Bastian said lab trials were producing "sustained" upstream speeds of 75Mbit/s"
LR: Cablecom says its experiment hit downstream bursts of 1.37 Gbit/s in a lab trial
"According to a Cablecom spokesman, it hit the mark by bonding 32 8MHz-wide downstream EuroDocsis channels. No single Docsis modem exists to do that yet, but Cablecom did it by combining four Cisco Systems Inc. modems that could each bond eight channels. Those were linked up to the Cisco flagship cable modem termination system (CMTS), the uBR100012, equipped with the vendor's new 3G60 line card, which packs in 72 downstream ports."
LR: Docsis 3.0 Tackles Linear IP Video
Cable360:
Comcast Gets Into Home Technical Support Business
FIPTV: Canadian MSO offering a la carte services
TR:
How To Turn A Laser Into A Tractor Beam
NetWorld: Cisco caught off guard by switching hit
Reuters: After years of buying, Cisco may need to sell
"What investors would like is to see them more focused on their core market, like routers, switches and data centers, and de-emphasize or even exit some of these consumer businesses"
[this is meant as the definitive reporting on Stuxnet]
VF: A Declaration of Cyber-War
FC: Consumer IPv6 routers fail to make the grade
DSLReports: Targeted Cable TV Ads Growing More Sophisticated
MW: What you need to know about Thunderbolt
Cringely: Attack of the Minis
"But it's the potential Mac Mini application of Light Peak that I find so fascinating...
Remember that Mac-based supercomputer a few years ago at Virginia Tech? Apple got a lot of press from that installation first using G5-based Mac Pro boxes and then Intel-based xServes. But the installation was definitely non-trivial, as was the software.
Now imagine a supercomputer built from Light Peak-equipped Mac Minis. You'd unpack the Minis, plug them into power, plug them into each other with one Light Peak cable each, then load your software in one of the Minis, reboot them all and go out for a frosty beverage. That's it, thanks to Light Peak, xGrid, and Grand Central Dispatch.
Xgrid has been built into OS X for years, offering some nice loosely coupled multiprocessing capabilities that few people have taken advantage of. Grand Central dispatch is now built into OS X that allows high efficiency task scheduling not just on the local multi-core machine, but down to individual program threads between tightly coupled machines (think FiberChannel). But Light Peak makes FiberChannel look slow, is inexpensive (FiberChannel is not), and is super easy to set up. And don't forget Apple has invested gigabucks in that huge North Carolina data center - a data center that is schedule to open very soon."
FC: Charter Communications revenues up; video changes coming
"Charter is digging more deeply into the convergence between linear video and online content by creating a "hybrid platform that leverages traditional cable and next-generation IP" and uses an iPad application as a "command central" to give subscribers the ability to browse and schedule recordings and access certain recorded content"
STLToday:
Charter loses $85 million
MC: Charter Looks To Snag Dial-Up Customers
Cable360: CableLabs Issues DPoE Specifications
LR: Cable FTTP Goes Standard
DSLReports: 2-5% Of Your Bill Actually Goes To Bandwidth
Online video guides:
http://trakt.tv/
http://www.clicker.com/
MW: Google Docs secrets: 20 power tips
[this might basically be the long rumored G-Drive]
Fortune: Google user-managed storage launches with up to 16 terabytes of space
[if you're using Windows as your OS this may change your mind]
Ars: Black ops: how HBGary wrote backdoors for the government
LR: Comcast Preps a Docsis 3.0 Boost
"Comcast has been testing upstream channel bonding on its "Extreme" Docsis 3.0 tiers that, for now, cap the upstream at 10 Mbit/s. Upstream channel bonding would let Comcast raise that ceiling. At last year's event, Bastian said lab trials were producing "sustained" upstream speeds of 75Mbit/s"
LR: Cablecom says its experiment hit downstream bursts of 1.37 Gbit/s in a lab trial
"According to a Cablecom spokesman, it hit the mark by bonding 32 8MHz-wide downstream EuroDocsis channels. No single Docsis modem exists to do that yet, but Cablecom did it by combining four Cisco Systems Inc. modems that could each bond eight channels. Those were linked up to the Cisco flagship cable modem termination system (CMTS), the uBR100012, equipped with the vendor's new 3G60 line card, which packs in 72 downstream ports."
LR: Docsis 3.0 Tackles Linear IP Video
Cable360:
Comcast Gets Into Home Technical Support Business
FIPTV: Canadian MSO offering a la carte services
TR:
How To Turn A Laser Into A Tractor Beam
NetWorld: Cisco caught off guard by switching hit
Reuters: After years of buying, Cisco may need to sell
"What investors would like is to see them more focused on their core market, like routers, switches and data centers, and de-emphasize or even exit some of these consumer businesses"
[this is meant as the definitive reporting on Stuxnet]
VF: A Declaration of Cyber-War
FC: Consumer IPv6 routers fail to make the grade
DSLReports: Targeted Cable TV Ads Growing More Sophisticated
MW: What you need to know about Thunderbolt
Cringely: Attack of the Minis
"But it's the potential Mac Mini application of Light Peak that I find so fascinating...
Remember that Mac-based supercomputer a few years ago at Virginia Tech? Apple got a lot of press from that installation first using G5-based Mac Pro boxes and then Intel-based xServes. But the installation was definitely non-trivial, as was the software.
Now imagine a supercomputer built from Light Peak-equipped Mac Minis. You'd unpack the Minis, plug them into power, plug them into each other with one Light Peak cable each, then load your software in one of the Minis, reboot them all and go out for a frosty beverage. That's it, thanks to Light Peak, xGrid, and Grand Central Dispatch.
Xgrid has been built into OS X for years, offering some nice loosely coupled multiprocessing capabilities that few people have taken advantage of. Grand Central dispatch is now built into OS X that allows high efficiency task scheduling not just on the local multi-core machine, but down to individual program threads between tightly coupled machines (think FiberChannel). But Light Peak makes FiberChannel look slow, is inexpensive (FiberChannel is not), and is super easy to set up. And don't forget Apple has invested gigabucks in that huge North Carolina data center - a data center that is schedule to open very soon."
posted by Andy at 11:04 AM
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