Swannie

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by Swannie 16y ago
Yep, overselling for the lose I'm afraid.
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by Swannie 16y ago
How extensive is your telco/healthcare knowledge? I think the more established the industry, the harder it is to enter as a consultant on your own. In telecoms the only true "independent consultants" I know of have 20+ years of experience.
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by Swannie 16y ago
"How can anyone manage with 25 GB per month?" Very, very happily thanks. I used to "manage" quite happily on 1.5GB/month (Wireless in Australia). Now I'm in the UK, I'm doing about 25 (thanks to BBC's streaming, which I could cut out a lot
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by Swannie 16y ago
It's tricky though, because they have built out, and have to maintain, quite a large infrastructure to cope with voice alone. It extends from billing, through to terminating calls on other networks, running voice mail systems, etc. There's
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by Swannie 16y ago
It's not perfect http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_Media#Bandwidth_throttli... But it's a good way of solving some of the challenges. But more and more people will start hitting that throttling soon, as people start using LoveFilm strea
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by Swannie 16y ago
I've seen that in Australia and the UK too. Good idea to attract the younger market.
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by Swannie 16y ago
Well here in the UK, BT are rolling out FTTC (Fiber to the Cabinet). Third Party ISPs can install their min-DSLAMs into the cabinet, which is usually not very far away in an urban or semi-urban environment. This will be VDSL, delivering 50m
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by Swannie 16y ago
I don't follow your logic. Bell cannot enter the TV market (one it's already in, albeit Satellite TV), because Netflix can't enter the ISP market? I'll think you'll find that Netflix can enter that market if they so desire. Bell are abusing
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by Swannie 16y ago
I misunderstood. They have from a few days ago for 60/90 days. And they don't really have many options, unless they go for a massive unbundling effort.
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by Swannie 16y ago
Lets clarify a few things. The ruling last year: http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2010/2010-802.htm The result of consultation on the ruling, and dates for its application: http://crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2011/2011-44.htm This affects th
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by Swannie 16y ago
It's not.
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by Swannie 16y ago
I agree with you. The days of endless fixed utilisation are over.
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by Swannie 16y ago
1) Does it matter if they pay for their peering arrangements? (See who they peer with here: http://www.datacentermap.com/as/577_upstreams.html ). They still need to carry this traffic to a peering location. That's not free. They still nee
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by Swannie 16y ago
"Content and infrastructure MUST be separated if we are to effectively create fair pricing conditions and net neutrality." Or at least strongly regulated. The more I read about the situation there, the more it sucks. Especially because I re
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by Swannie 16y ago
Thanks, I'd not heard about this (only been back here for just over a month). This is excellent news, most places covered by the end of this year. Sadly Bristol is lacking!
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by Swannie 16y ago
Anti-competitive, agreed, mostly (see next point). Net Neutrality, whole other debate. Should Bell be forced to allow equivalent pricing to a competitor to operate the same level of service? Maybe (probably). The pivotal argument in terms o
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by Swannie 16y ago
Not really, from the other comments it appears that Bell Ca is not the only back-haul provider. But as I said in another comment, ISPs got a whole 90 days to deal with this, which runs out about today. That's a pathetic amount of time to te
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by Swannie 16y ago
"They're rolling out 100mbps broadband in the UK." Not quite yet. http://www.eclipse.net.uk/fibre-broadband/what-is-fttc-
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by Swannie 16y ago
A more technical look at the subject: http://www.ongreen.com/news/stfc-rutherford-appleton-lab-spi... If you have access to academic journals (university accounts etc.) then the paper can be found here: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.102
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by Swannie 16y ago
But FibeTV is bits over their private infrastructure... they can choose how to charge that, no? The other bits that they are charging for are ones that go "outside" of their network. Usage based charging will become the norm, just like with
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by Swannie 16y ago
A much better article explaining the same issue: http://www.zeropaid.com/news/91228/crtc-ruling-could-mean-da... (2010 Nov 3) Sounds like the regulator really dropped the ball on this one, giving small ISP's only 90 days to investigate po
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by Swannie 16y ago
Infact the vague implication is that it can be used where existing vehicles are running on compressed hydrogen.
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by Swannie 16y ago
Hmm, I'm not so cynical. The research has been done by Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. These guys are just down the road from Oxford University. The facility it one of the top research facilities in the UK. That gives these claims some weig
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by Swannie 16y ago
Yeah, I totally agree. I'm in the UK, I think if I had to look seriously for that sort of backup I'd go with Sweden or Switzerland (due to strong personal freedom there) - pretty certain we fall under the same satellite coverage as them.
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by Swannie 16y ago
A good analogy (I think) is real borders. In this case airspace borders. What Egypt have done would be the equivalent of saying to it's air controllers "Any plane incoming for an Egyptian airport, tell them we don't know where it is." And t
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by Swannie 16y ago
True, but there are still the options to set up strategic frequency jammers, set up rogue nodes transmitting /dev/random to each other at max speed, nodes with routing black holes, randomly sabotage every TCP stream... etc. Where can that b
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by Swannie 16y ago
Hmm, it's more like investing in/always betting on a solid racing stable. You know the jockeys they use are great (investor community), you know their horses are from great stock (top applicants), you know that the breeders, handlers and tr
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by Swannie 16y ago
Problem with satellite if your downlink is within Egypt. Conceivably a problem if your providers billing server is in Egypt, even if your downlink is elsewhere, as the RAS probably can't talk to your authorisation server in your billing sys
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by Swannie 16y ago
A little misleading. The thing is, in London, they realised this years ago. So the biggest peering house created a second building, then a third, in geographically diverse parts of the City. Not to mention that they weren't the only company
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by Swannie 16y ago
It's scary isn't it. It's a good fit for all their services, including Market Place. It's a good fit for their core market (who probably already use PayPal, but would happily go with alternatives). It fits nicely with people wanting to expe

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