Internet Travel

After Internet2

Guess whats the event after Internet2? Okay, Cruise Missile is definitely out of my league :) Anyway, this Internet2 trip for me is all about routing: How network A connect to network B when there are multiple paths, one shorter latency and another bigger pipe and unfortunately not both at the same time, and how […]

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Digital City Expo

Went over to Reston to attend the Digital City Expo. Vint Cerf was the keynote speaker :) I am surprised to see so many city government officials, mostly for their fact finding trip to deploy their own muni-wireless. The driver for deploying the muni-wireless however is very different compared to metro-wireless or those deployed in […]

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APRICOT Day 3

I spend most of the day at the APIA ISOC-AU Joint Forum. Seem like the whole gang of the typical IETF suspects (IAB & IESG) are here among other speakers. The speech of the day has to come from Chris Disspain from auDA at the last session. His description of the prepcomm3 of the WSIS […]

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Net Neutrality

In Jan this year, a frontpage article on WSJ quoted Verizon Chief Executive Ivan Seidenberg “We have to make sure they (Google) don’t sit on our network and chew up our capacity”. Both AT&T and Bellsouth also made similar statements in the same article. A few days ago, Verizon repeat their call to “End Google’s […]

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GENI Project

The GENI (Global Environment for Network Investigators) Project recently released their conceptual document. GENI is a 367M USD, 5 year project supported by NSF to build the “next generation Internet”. The document pointed out several good points about the limitation of the current Internet: • The Internet is not secure. We hear daily about worms, […]

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The Internet Is Broken

Got this article from Dewayne Hendricks: At the same time, the Internet’s shortcomings have resulted in plunging security and a decreased ability to accommodate new technologies. “We are at an inflection point, a revolution point,” Clark now argues. And he delivers a strikingly pessimistic assessment of where the Internet will end up without dramatic intervention. […]

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JGN II and SingAREN

I just come back from the MoU signing ceremony between JGN II and SingAREN, marking a beginning of a new high-speed 155mbps R&D link between Singapore and Japan. Early last year, I paid a courtesy visit to MIC/JGN office in Japan requesting them to open their 20mbps link to the R&D community1 but I was […]

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