Internet

Broadband?

It is almost impossible to find a consumer broadband provider that gives you decent upload bandwidth wrt to the download bandwidth. Look around…all these offers of 512kbpx or 1.5mbps broadband access usually comes with 128kbps or even 64kbps upload! “Why would consumers needs more then 128kbps upload bandwidth?” question comes from the perspective that consumers […]

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Internet

FTTH in Japan

The April statistics (via Adam Peake) shows FTTH in Japan is growing nearly at 100,000 new subscribers per month! While the FTTH is bearly 1M subscribers (out of 14M broadband subscribers), the grow rate is very significant. I wonder why the sudden surge of interest in FTTH in Japan…something to check out when I am […]

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Books

Nemesis

Nemesis by Issac Asimov Yep, not a book on technology, business or management! And not bought recently either…Lets see, the receipt shows I bought this on 26th July 1999 from Kepler’s Book @ 1010 El Camino Real in Menlo Park. Wow, thats a book I bought in two previous life ago. Anyway, Issac Asimov is […]

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Random Musing

Disappear?

I know I haven’t been blog for more then a week…and nope, I havent disappear nor have I forgotten about this blog. I am just a little busy … My day work involve dealing with people management, technologies, trials, planning my trips for APT-ITU IDN/ENUM Workshop in May and Supernova in June and writing papers, […]

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Futurist Random Musing

Disruptive Technologies

One of my responsiblity at work involved identifying and monitoring disruptive technologies, especially infocomm technologies that will drastically change the economic, business and social landscape in Singapore. But what is disruptive technologies and how do you identify them? In the classic Crossing the Chasm, Geoff Moore describe a Technology Adoption Lifecycle Curve1. The curve is […]

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