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721.
by bcrl 4y ago
Lead acid batteries are widely available, cost effective and have an extremely good safety profile. Getting similar capacity from lithium ion batteries is expensive, and the failure modes are quite nasty in comparison (nobody wants a high
722.
by bcrl 4y ago
CFC doesn't buy transport or transit from Bell as their pricing is ridiculous ($10,800 per month to go 26 km at 10Gbps? No way.). We only rent poles and strand from Bell. As Bell owns a good percentage of the poles in Ontario, it is
723.
by bcrl 4y ago
Thanks for the shout out. =-) I'm glad folks take the time to read some of my lengthy ramblings on telecom.
724.
by bcrl 4y ago
It's not by design so much as a result of limited participation by the general public. Proceedings are posted to the CRTC's website and are available for anyone to view and comment on. When it comes to information that the CRTC c
725.
by bcrl 4y ago
At least in Canada, you can't afford the lawyers that have regulatory experience and are good enough to win. They're already employed by the large ILECs. Or they don't know how to strategize and win at the 5d chess games th
726.
by bcrl 4y ago
Again, it depends on what you're leasing from other carriers. Yes, if you're purchasing an L2 path from a carrier you're relying on their switches and routers to pass traffic correctly, but you bypass their routers and switc
727.
by bcrl 4y ago
RF just simply does not have the capacity of fibre. Capacity upgrades in a satellite network take 5-10 years. Lighting up another wavelength on a glass fibre takes a few minutes to plug in new equipment at either end of the link. Right no
728.
by bcrl 4y ago
In some regards it's better to get another wavelength circuit going to another city to pick up geographically diverse transit.
729.
by bcrl 4y ago
In the case of the Rogers outage, other carriers / ISPs were not offline. The Rogers problem appeared to be entirely in L2/L3 -- switches and routers were not configured correctly. The other telcos were not impacted as they run
730.
by bcrl 4y ago
On top of that: avoid engineering consulting firms. Hire an engineer that can stamp and sign off on plans to do the work for you. Pole surveying is not all that expensive to do yourself, and there are multiple technology solutions in that
731.
by bcrl 4y ago
You don't need to buy DIA from an incumbent. You can get L1 / L2 circuits from various carriers back to data centres where you can buy transit and peer with other ISPs using BGP. L1 wavelength circuits did not suffer from the ou
732.
by bcrl 4y ago
If I had infinite time, I would. It's taken a few years to recover from no fewer than 4 projects which were complete write offs in terms of profitability because my permits were delayed while the incumbent built out a neighbourhood fo
733.
by bcrl 4y ago
Yesterday's outage was not an L0/L1 problem, it was L2 and L3. Rogers wavelength services continued working perfectly fine (I have 3 x 10Gbps circuits from them). Even the Rogers owned data center my gear is in was fine as they
734.
by bcrl 4y ago
No. Starlink does not have enough capacity for that.
735.
by bcrl 4y ago
It's actually very easy to start a carrier in Canada from a regulatory perspective. The difficulty is in achieving scale and profitability while dealing with the incumbents trying to squash you like a bug.
736.
by bcrl 4y ago
Basically, you start by getting giant piles of cash. You then start trying to build out new network assets. Then you run into the incumbents cheating on the permitting processes and utilizing market power to take or retain customers. I&#
737.
by bcrl 4y ago
It's a 2 way street. If a job or contract that seems like a good fit for someone I know, then I pass it on to them. Over time it's mutually beneficial.
738.
by bcrl 4y ago
Carpet bombing can get interviews, but it tends to waste a lot of time and be relatively ineffectual. Last time I looked at getting interviews, a number of the interesting job listings were behind absolutely horrific web sites that basical
739.
by bcrl 4y ago
Location definitely matters. Certain types of work are more popular in some regions than others. The level of trust required for landing remote work jobs also strongly leans on having good references from one's network of mutual acqu
740.
by bcrl 4y ago
I'm not sure I agree with the author. Locally (in Kanata) there have been a lot of networking companies, including startups that have developed shiny new switch ASICs from scratch. After having a number of conversations about the e
741.
by bcrl 4y ago
Money supply isn't what matters, it's the flow of cash that represents the economy. Bitcoin ain't got much flow. 264,000 transactions per day is nothing compared to the many billions of transactions per day of fiat.
742.
by bcrl 4y ago
As fibre networks expand, there are more and more jobs that can be done remotely in the county. Personally, I love being able to go for an hour walk out back in the bush with the only thing around being the sounds and sights of nature. Th
743.
by bcrl 4y ago
1kW is nothing. Cerebras is pumping out 15kW on one of their wafer scale "chips".
744.
by bcrl 4y ago
I think the message is that we now know what the cost of cheating is. Alternate link: https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2022/06/28/ey-...
745.
by bcrl 4y ago
If you're applying to 300+ companies, something is wrong. When I've gone looking for work I've talked to maybe 5-10 companies at most. Specialization and a good network of contacts makes all the difference.
746.
by bcrl 4y ago
It's not the sellers that are the problem, it's the search engine. It outright ignores entire words in my search results. Try searching for "2TB SSD" and seeing all the results for 1TB drives and HDDs promoted up to th
747.
by bcrl 4y ago
It matters to someone like me. The range of current Telsa's is just on the edge of what I need under normal conditions, which means that it falls short (fails) under worst case winter conditions. When I'm driving around to a few
748.
by bcrl 4y ago
It's a low volume product. If there were a 100k produced the cost would be substantially lower. Not that many people need 1.6km 10Mbps connections, and many of those that do need a 1.6km connection will want more than 10Mbps.
749.
by bcrl 4y ago
I pay about $350 per kilometer for 24 count flat all dielectric G.657A1 fibre with 2 x 2.0mm fibreglass strength members. Add about $100 for shipping from overseas.
750.
by bcrl 4y ago
Unless the telco cut the outer shielding on the twisted pair cables everywhere a terminal was installed. That was one of the remediations the incumbent had to undertake here when they started deploying 50Mbps VDSL2 FTTN service. Oops.

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