The need for more Bandwidth (FTTH Conference)

Probably you already read the original article "FTTH Conference considers what's next", but I think the following comments are interesting…

• "Today, YouTube accounts for about 7% of all U.S. Internet traffic, consuming 50 Petabytes per month or 600 Petabytes a year--which is greater that the entire Internet in the year 2000."
• "Today, the U.S. generates about 20 Exabytes of voice traffic per year. But the move to videophones would generate about 200 Exabytes at least or about ten times the size of the existing world Internet."
• "FTTH may be the key industry for the health of the overall U.S. economy in the next five to ten years."
• "David Spence, staff product manager at Tellabs, noted that service providers, by and large, are looking to leverage what they've already deployed (e.g., GPON), but they also want more bandwidth, longer reach, improved economics, and more intelligence."
• "Ronald Herron, director of network technology and strategy at Alcatel-Lucent, noted that GPON will be sufficient through 2011--if service providers changed split ratios from the currently favored 1 x 32 to 1 x 8."
• "This week's FTTH Conference underscored one undeniable fact: bandwidth requirements will continue to increase."

Who did say "there is not need for more bandwidth"?

Would you like to read an article about the FTTX market in Europe? I am sure it won't hurt you.

"European FTTH debates GPON vs. Ethernet"

Thanks for reading.

Hot Skills Employers Want!

"Anyone who can write term papers, cram for exams, survive the roommate from hell, run a campus club, participate in sports or tackle other college challenges deserves a job & has demonstrated the ability to hold one. You are likely to develop these qualities in college:

1. Critical thinking: seeing the big picture and being analytical; comprehending what you read
2. Communication: getting your point across effectively when writing and speaking
3. Visionary qualities: brainstorming, looking into the future, and setting goals
4. Self-motivation: showing willingness to take the initiative
5. Proficiency with information: being inquisitive and resourceful, knowing how to conduct research
6. Globally-minded: understanding of other cultures
7. Teamwork: working together to achieve goals

Chances are, you possess a number of these key competencies. Once you realize you are very skilled, you'll be better able to sell yourself to employers as exactly the type of candidate they want."

This is basically what Michelle Tullier is telling us in her article "The skills you have and the skills they want". But, are we really aware of these skills? I mean, do we know we have these skills? In what amount do we have them? how can we be so sure about having them and showing them to our potential manager in an interview? These are the remaining questions to be answered.

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Joost, Recycled Gadgets and Proprietary Software vs. Open Source

Hello!
It has been a while since I posted anything here... well, I am back with more news... here we go.

Do you know what is Joost? Have you ever heard the term IPTV? Do you have a fast Internet connection? If you want to know what I am talking about just click on the link to check interesting news about them... your idea of TV/Cable service will change... I promise!
http://www.techcrunch.com/tag/joost/

How many old phones, digital cameras, and MP3 players do you have that still work but are sitting useless in a drawer? Or, will you consider to buy a used phone, camera or MP3 player? Check the following link to find out the answers to these questions.
Recycle Your Used Gadgets For Cash at SecondRotation

Barracuda talked to 228 enterprise customers and asked what advantages open source has over proprietary software, and vice versa. The answers were a bit surprising. Here the complete "story"...
Why choose proprietary software over open source? Survey says!

Thanks for reading.

World's Top Carriers Pronounce OIF Interoperability Demo a Success

From Yahoo Finance...

"... AT&T, China Telecom, Deutsche Telekom, France Telecom, KDDI, Telecom Italia and Verizon hosted the event at lab facilities in six countries, on three continents. The Carriers said the event was of vital importance to the industry and to the development of Ethernet Services.

The Demo was also a complete success from an equipment supplier view. Eight optical equipment suppliers highlighted solutions for support of Ethernet services over multi-domain SONET/SDH transport networks by employing OIF Implementation Agreements (IAs) in a multi-carrier, multi-vendor environment. Participating system suppliers included Alcatel-Lucent, Ciena, Ericsson, Huawei Technologies, Marben Products, Sycamore Networks, Tellabs and ZTE.
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The ability to establish bandwidth connections from 50 Mb/s to 1 Gb/s, or even 10Gb/s, over a dynamic control plane optical core network will transform how bandwidth services are viewed by our Enterprise customers. Key enablers bringing the network transformation to reality are: the economical availability of GigE access ports; and bandwidth availability and grooming expansions from OXCs, ROADMs and packet enabled transport platforms.
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Complete article here:

http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/070917/20070916005070.html?.v=1

Now the question: how does it affect us? From the perspective of a regular user I guess we won't see the benefits in the near future, but from the perspective of worldwide companies I guess it will be great to know they can interconnect all their branch offices using the most popular and worldwide deployed standard for networks: ETHERNET!
Uhmmm... what about online games? does it mean it will be faster to play and interact with other gamers worldwide?... will see.

Thanks for reading.

This is the title of the latest news regarding Net Neutrality. I seriously don't find this fair, does it mean we will have to pay our bills for Internet access based on the web sites we visited? how can we trust they are charging the right amount? does it mean they will keep track of our "clicks" legally? This goes against our right to privacy. Or, will they charge based on our speed only? aren't they doing it already?
If this means this will work like the USPS service, does it mean they can charge us more money if for example we want to connect to www.google.com in 10 miliseconds versus 1 second?
Bottom line... this is B.S.!!! One more time the lobbysts seems to be doing their job pretty well... who is going to represent the common user like you or me?

Justice Department Opposes 'Net Neutrality'

Thanks for reading.