Sadahiro Sato, GM of BB Phone Service Division of Softbank, gave a very informative presentation. You can find the backbone of Yahoo! BB in Japan and they have acquired Japan Telecom last year really for their backbone network across Japan. And since Yahoo! BB has 22% of the telephony market share in Japan, nearly 33% […]
Month: February 2005
No more free ST
While I am away in Japan, back home, Singapore Press Holding turned their ST Interactive into a paid service. (via MrBrown). Heck, who cares!? Obviously I don’t read ST Interactive; In fact, I seldom even read their printed Straits Time. The fact I got this news via MrBrown blog is a good indication how much […]
News report on APEET
Reported on Nikkeibp (Sorry, Japanese only): アジア太平洋地区におけるENUMの普及団体APEET（Asia Pacific ENUM Engineering Team）が，国内初となる公開通話デモンストレーションを実施している。2月21日から25日にかけて京都で開催中のインターネット基盤技術のアジア太平洋国際会議「APRICOT2005」の会場内で，参加者同士が自由に体験できる。実験の責任者である日本レジストリサービス（JPRS） 技術研究部の米谷嘉朗部長代理によると，「ENUMの実験を国内で一般公開するのは初めて」だという。 (my bad translation: APEET conducted the first telephony trial in Japan. Participants at APRICOT 2005 can experience the new technology and make calls freely among themselves from 21st to 25th. Yoneya-san @ JPRS “This is the first public ENUM trial in Japan.”) The […]
Kyoto Day 3
Couldn’t sleep and woke up at 6am. Went downstair to do my emails, met Toru Takahashi and went breakfast with him. Found out from him that one of his company is going IPO…again. To be exact, third time now. Remember, the last time I met him in Korea a year ago, same thing happened. Dunno […]
APEET Bert
Yahoo! BB got 16M IP address
Just discovered that Yahoo! BB just got a /8 (formerly known as Class A) IP address allocation 126.0.0.0/8 from APNIC on 8th Feb 2005. /8 in layman terms is equivalent to over 16M IP addresses – one of the largest IP allocation block we have seen. Wow!
Kyoto Day 2
[In case it is still not obvious, all my travel entries are really for my wife (and my boss) who wants to know what I have been up to.] Started early and have breakfast with Marc Blanchet, the former co-chair of IDN WG with me. Anyway, Marc is back doing IPv6 and his small startup […]
APDIP Internet Governance Panel @ APRICOT
I was at a panel on Internet Governance organized by APDIP. The show goes to Geoff Hutson, who gave the most eloquent impromptu speech1 I have heard. Unfortunate for me, I didn’t really prepared much before I was up on the panel; Instead, I was busy scribbling some talking points while the other speakers takes […]
Kyoto Day 1
Have breakfast at Suguru Yamaguchi. I know him when he is still a “young” professor many years ago but now, he is the IT Security Advisor to the Japan Cabinet and Prime Minister. Wow very important person now! Anyway, have a little discussion with him on privacy and asked him to hook up with Joi. […]
Giving out WiFi SIP Phones
This is an exciting day for me. We are giving out Hitachi WiFi SIP Phones at APRICOT 2005. This is part of the APEET ENUM/SIP Live Trial we have been putting together for the last few months. Every wifi phones are assigned with a SIP address which also comes with an ENUM1 number and this […]