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Making Time-Sensitive Networks Happen
Last time, we discussed the promise and challenge of content-centric networks. Current events – the WannaCry worm in particular – make one CCN feature especially important: CCNs have heightened...
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Highly Illogical Broadband Claims
The US jumped four places in Akamai’s most recent State of the Internet report, from 14th to 10th. Average connection speed increased from 17.2 Mbps to 18.7, an increase of 8.8%. The US increase was...
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Open Internet Orders Degrade Internet Improvement
This is a followup on my post about claims that broadband speeds got a bump from the FCC’s 2015 Open Internet Order. That post included a table with all the relevant data, but it’s easier to visualize...
View ArticleCongestion Pricing for Infrastructure: I Still Don’t Know Why Net Neutrality...
A month ago I wrote a blog post questioning the importance of net neutrality: Remind Me: Why Should I Care about Net Neutrality? Luckily for me, law professor Brett Frischmann seeks to answer my...
View ArticleMicrosoft Closes Digital Divide! Heh, Just Kidding
Happy Prime Day! Here’s one special deal you don’t want to buy: Microsoft’s grand plan to bring high speed broadband to the less-populated fringe of rural America for peanuts. It sounds appealing, but...
View ArticleProgress in the Debate over TV White Space
Tuesday (July 11, 2017), Microsoft unveiled their current vision for unlicensed radio services in the TV White Space (see “Microsoft calls for U.S. strategy to eliminate rural broadband gap within 5...
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EFF’s Engineers Letter Avoids Key Issues About Internet Regulation
One of the more intriguing comments filed with the FCC in the “Restoring Internet Freedom” docket is a letter lambasting the FCC for failing to understand how the Internet works. The letter – organized...
View ArticleInternet Pioneers Discuss Network Architecture and Regulation
This special podcast is the audio portion of a webcast with three special guests that deserve the title of Internet Pioneers: Tom Evslin, the founder of ITXC, the first company to transport phone...
View ArticleHelping the FCC Get Broadband Right
The FCC’s annual inquiry on the state of US broadband is underway and we’re here to help. This process, mandated by federal law, seeks to discover whether advanced networks are being deployed across...
View ArticleThe Internet After Net Neutrality
As we approach the FCC’s repeal of its Obama-era net neutrality regulations, boosters are panicking. Chairman Ajit Pai has made a bold decision, moving enforcement of unfair and deceptive broadband...
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Community Broadband is Cheaper – and Slower
A recent study by the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard shows that publicly-funded broadband networks are cheaper – but slower – than those built with private capital. On...
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2018 Broadband Deployment Report
After flirting with some major restructuring in the way broadband progress is assessed in the US, Chairman Pai has released a fact sheet that maintains the analytical status quo with one significant...
View ArticleTrouble in Fibertown
Orem, Utah is a storied city in the annals of networking because it was the birthplace of Novell, the company that dominated computer networking in the ‘80s and ‘90s. Novell’s Netware products helped...
View ArticleCloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 DNS Does Nothing for Privacy
I didn’t pay much attention to the experimental Cloudflare Domain Name Service (1.1.1.1) until I saw their co-founder & COO Michele Zatlyn describing it on Bloomberg Technology. There’s nothing...
View ArticleFrom the Core to the Edge: Perspective on Internet Prioritization
The House Communications and Technology held a great hearing on Internet optimization today. The hearing addressed the core issue in the net neutrality controversy, the ability of ISPs to optimize...
View ArticleRegulatory Balance Across Platforms
We usually focus on the tech side of tech policy here, but sometimes we have to discuss policy as well. In the midst of efforts by Facebook and other Internet platforms to escape responsibility for...
View ArticleSenator Markey Redesigns the Internet
A number of Democratic members of Congress have signed on to an amicus brief filed by Sen. Ed Markey in the Mozilla challenge to the FCC’s Restoring Internet Freedom Order. The brief focuses on two...
View ArticleThe Big Picture: Globalization 4.0
I went to Dubai this week for the annual meeting of the Global Future Councils, a project of the World Economic Forum that sets the agenda for the Davos meeting in January. The theme was “shaping a new...
View ArticleSharing Federal Spectrum by Contract
News reports led me to believe the administration had unveiled a national spectrum plan on October 25. Alas, the White House statement is simply a plan to make a plan, not an actual strategy. But the...
View ArticleLarry Roberts was a Networking Legend
Internet old-timers were deeply saddened by the passing of networking pioneer Lawrence G. Roberts on December 26. Larry is the first High Tech Forum contributor to pass away: he wrote a piece on...
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