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#B4RN Broadband for the Rural North Project Kicks Off
Broadband project B4RN made a little bit of history today when it launched a share offer. The project promoters want to raise £1.86m to lay optical fibre that will provide 1Gbps broadband to homes in the deeply rural uplands of … Continue reading
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Superfast Broadband Pilot Projects: Lessons Learned
What a difference a year makes… Last week BDUK quietly published, via the Department of Culture Media and Sport (DCMS) website, a report about lessons learned from the superfast broadband pilots since they were officially announced just over a year … Continue reading
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Light painting with Wi-Fi
I’ve decided that I should post more videos that interest me, and hopefully will interest my readers too. This is a project in Norway to make the invisible visible. Hat tip to Dick Willis.
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Message from Milan
You know the Homer Simpson clip where he complains “Every time I learn how to set the remote, I forget how to drive the car”? That is exactly how I felt after three days of presentations at the FTTH Council … Continue reading
Interview: Adrian Wooster, JON Exchange
Adrian talks about the launch of the Joint Open Network (JON) Exchange, a wholesale marketplace to facilitate the business relationship between local access networks and service providers. Continue reading
Passive Access: Who Shares Wins
The procurement process for the four BDUK broadband market testing projects could be delayed or compromised if the arrangements for sharing BT’s ducts and poles aren’t put in place in a timely manner, said speakers at NextGen10 in Birmingham. Continue reading
Fibre pioneers light up Ashby de la Launde
Ashby is a tiny village in rural Lincolnshire of just 63 homes and 3 small businesses. Although the village is tiny, it’s probably got the fastest broadband network of any community in the UK with 1Gbps connections between properties within the village itself and a 100Mbps symmetric fibre connection to the outside world. Continue reading
Broadband: We Are The Champions
BDUK didn’t provide any details about the four NGA market testing projects, so I have tried to fill the void. Continue reading
Google: We Want a New 100G MSA
Google caused a bit of a stir at the Market Focus Session during the ECOC exhibition here in Turin. The internet search giant wants to use 100Gigabit Ethernet (100GbE) inside its massive data centres, but it can’t find an optical … Continue reading
Friday Afternoon Silliness: Pigeon Race
Remember Winston the carrier pigeon, who carried a 4GB data stick 60 miles across South Africa in a race against ADSL service from the country’s biggest internet provider, Telkom? Now meet Margaret. Continue reading
