In May, Sprint and Clearwire formed a $14.5B joint venture that will focus entirely on WiMAX. The joint venture will be called Clearwire and includes investment from Google, Intel, Comcast, Time Warner, and Bright House Networks. According to joint venture announcement, the new Clearwire expects to dramatically enhance the speed with which customers access t ...
I see that Amazon.com has been having problems for the past few days. Some folks are talking about configuration or internal problems, but I think that there is reasonable chance that they are struggling under traffic congestion caused by a bot attack. Traceroute shows horrible round-trip times to adjacent nodes; it would make sense that they would be trying t ...
I'm back from Interop, and I must admit that every year I think, "This is the year! People will finally understand how useful these WAN performance optimizers can be." Well, I've now been saying that for four years; it's time to admit that things are going more slowly than I would like.
The developments this year at Interop were more evolutionar ...
To quote Mel Brooks as Louis XIV in “History of the World, Pt 1”: “You do It, I do It, we all do It.” In this case, process is the “it” that needs to be clearly defined before selecting tools to enable efficiency and productivity in an operations group. More often than not, groups look at software to address a technical and business need before they know how they’ll use it, the ...
Air travel has come a long ways since Wilber and Orville gave it a go at Kitty Hawk, NC. As air travel matured, planes became more sophisticated with the assistance of avionics, or electronics designed for aviation. Humans are still required (even for pilotless planes, someone is controlling them from a remote center) to fly aircraft. The more tha ...