The telecoms industry is fatally caught between reinventing circuits with 5G, and an envy of vertical application businesses. Survival is not mandatory.
Archives for 2017
More network quality measurements with ∆Q metrics
September 15, 2017 By
I am having fun running around taking measurements of broadband access using high-fidelity ∆Q metrics. Here are a few readings I have recently taken.
The great inevitable: from broadband Internet to cloud application access
September 15, 2017 By
Some inevitable changes are hard to see in prospect, yet are ‘obvious’ in retrospect. The next communications revolution is ‘made for cloud’ access.
The madness of broadband speed tests
September 11, 2017 By
The broadband industry has falsely sold its customers on “speed”, so unsurprisingly “speed tests” have become an insane and destructive benchmark.
Software has already eaten telecoms (it just has indigestion)
September 8, 2017 By
The unconscious and near-universal belief is that packet networks are a telecoms service, and one that constructs an ‘additive’ resource called ‘bandwidth’. This is demonstrably technically false. They deliver distributed computing services, as they calculate how to divide up an underlying telecoms transmission resource.
Examples of high-fidelity network measures using ∆Q metrics
September 7, 2017 By
∆Q is the mathematical language in which supply and demand for broadband performance can be expressed. Here are examples of high-fidelity ∆Q measures.
The one reason net neutrality can’t be implemented
September 6, 2017 By
Whilst people argue over the virtues of net neutrality as a regulatory policy, computer science tells us regulatory implementation is a fool’s errand.
A small gem from the telegram era
August 31, 2017 By
We take modern communications for granted, and assume that emails arrive ungarbled. This was not always the case, as a century-old telegram shows us.
VoiceBase is the “Google of hypervoice”
August 23, 2017 By
Voice has joined the hypermedia revolution, becoming rich a data type. VoiceBase has taken pole position as the “Google of semantic contextual voice”.
The world’s most accurately measured office WiFi network
August 22, 2017 By
Network performance science took a small step forward today, with the first “commodity” high-fidelity service quality measurement data.
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