Scott Bradner’s latest article is a must-read. I come to similiar observation, that FCC seem to be moving further and further right ever since the new Chairman is in. The last few critical rulings on 911 on VoIP, Naked DSL has sided towards the incumbents and less on the consumers. I know FCC is basically […]
Category: Technology
mplayer tricks
Several months ago, I mentioned I was looking for mplayer documention. My wife has a bunch of wma files which she ripped using Windows Media Player but can’t play on iPod or iTunes now. We could probably rip again but being OSS geek, we like to inflict pain upon ourselves to look for the most […]
Korea gets 10Gbps KR-US and KR-CN circuits
Just read the latest GLORAID update: The first major step of the six-country GLORIAD effort to establish a lightpath-enabled ring around the northern hemi-sphere is being taken in a few short weeks – thanks to the efforts of partners at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI) and to the substantial funding commitment […]
The Next Ten Years
The next ten years in network is going to be 10x more exciting than the last ten we have. We had our first billion internet users finally after nearly three decade but over the next ten years, we going to add another (or two) billion more easily. What’s significant is the additional billion users will […]
IETF Day Four
Nakayama-sensei from Tokyo University shared a very pleasant story with me this morning. They runs a popular site called Live Eclipse that keeps track of eclipse schedule. The site also have an Japanese IDN 日食中継.jp which they publise concurrently. On the last eclipse, 9th April, they have over 2m hits in a single day. The […]
Thoughts on CommunicAsia 2005
CommunicAsia 2005 finally ends today. After spending a few days running between Raffles City Convention (where they have the conference) and Singapore Expo (where they have the event), and given they are 30mins drive apart, I started to question the IQ of the organizers. But other then that, it has been a great event. CommunicAsia […]
Singapore policy framework for IP Telephony
After working on it for almost two years, we finally got our IP Telephony policy framework. In the bid for lower costs, consumers are increasingly using the Internet and other Internet Protocol (IP)-based networks to make local and international voice calls, together with, or as alternatives to traditional fixed-line telephony. To advance Singapore’s development in […]
Triple Play Hype
Now with Microsoft announced officially they going into Triple Play (all the while they already in the game) I think the public will starts to hear more about the phrase from now. I also notice they managed to coin a new term ‘SoIP’ (Service over IP) much like the other term that they are hyping […]
Solaris & Mac
Jonathan is inviting Steve to use Solaris as the base OS for Mac: So I’d like to personally invite you to adopt Solaris 10 as the underpinning of the next generation Mac. We both respect Unix, both respect innovation*, and both clearly see volume opportunities in extending choice to developers. We’d love to work together. […]
NGN in OCED Countries
OECD has released a report on Next Generation Network Development in OCED countries over the weekend (via ITU SPU). This introduction stick out… Even though there is no universal and precise definition of NGN at this early stage of deployment, NGN could be defined as all-IP or packet-based integrated networks. In a NGN environment, applications […]