Archive for July, 2011

Don’t ban the box

Sunday, July 31st, 2011

[caption id="attachment_1048" align="alignright" width="224" caption="FTTH cabinet in Sebastopol, CA"][/caption] Last week the San Francisco Board of Supervisors reached a decision on proposed new cabinet infrastructure to be deployed by AT&T to deliver TV service in the city. The Board correctly concluded that the proposed utility cabinets in the existing utility right-of-way ...

Moving Outside: From ISP to OSP

Sunday, July 31st, 2011

[caption id="attachment_1011" align="alignright" width="224" caption="Placing duct for Fiber-to-the-Home"][/caption] This month Sonic.net celebrates seventeen years of providing Internet access, and we celebrate a major milestone: our first step outside. An an Internet Service Provider (ISP), beginning in 1994 with dialup Linux shell access, we used conventional phone lines from Pacific Bell and 16.8kbps ...