As new network applications are introduced almost on a daily basis, Internet traffic is continuing to grow. While you would think this is a good thing for service providers, the opposite is actually true. As I mentioned in my last blog, there is a symbiotic but unhappy relationship between content providers ...

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Not too long ago, if I asked you to think of service providers, names like AT&T, British Telecom, Deutsche Telecom, would have come easily to mind. Today, your response would not be so predictable. In the last few years, we have witnessed not only explosive growth in the amount of traffic on the ...

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The period for the first round of applications for the National Broadband Stimulus funds ended on Aug. 14. And while it likely won’t be known for a while who will receive funding and how much, we can be sure of one thing: There will be a lot of controversy around these funds. The plan, originally ...

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