Archive for April, 2010

WTH is OTT?

Friday, April 23rd, 2010

[caption id="attachment_573" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Boxee what's new screen"][/caption] A coworker recently hassled me for my use of acronyms without explanation. It's something that I try not to do, but the various acronyms of our industry boil down large concepts into just a few letters, so sometimes it's unavoidable. This posting is intended ...

Fusion Annex M available for testing in Santa Rosa

Tuesday, April 20th, 2010

For Fusion customers served out of the two Santa Rosa central offices (COs), we now support Annex M ADSL2+ profiles, in addition to the standard Annex A. Switching to Annex M can provide higher upstream speeds of up to 2.5Mbps per pair, though generally at the expense of some ...

Ignite: Community Broadband Alternatives

Wednesday, April 14th, 2010

This is a brief talk I gave recently as the Ignite event in Sebastopol. The topic follows up on the previous posting where we highlighted press coverage about our goal of deploying a fiber to the home (FTTH) test network. If the large number of comments on the ...

FlexLink Ethernet for Business Promotion

Wednesday, April 14th, 2010

Today we are launching a promotion of our FlexLink Ethernet product, offering discounts on our fastest Ethernet over Copper (EoC) offerings. This promotion offers our maximum speed 30Mbps/30Mbps symmetric business product at a significant discount. Here's the deal: For the price of a 20Mbps Ethernet link, we will fully provision ...