http://www.inveslogic.com/tags/bandwidth Blog Articles Tagged with 'bandwidth' at http://www.inveslogic.com en http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/1116882?rsstype=tag&tag=bandwidth Comcast s new 250 GB bandwidth cap is that, as Om points out, is metered without a meter Comcast doesn t provide you with a central tally of all your data use. The company instead suggests its customers install bandwidth metering software on... Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:37:32 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/1116882?rsstype=tag&tag=bandwidth http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/1116806?rsstype=tag&tag=bandwidth With Comcast announcing a 250 GB cap on its broadband service and Time Warner trialling a tiered service with limits that range from 5 GB to 40 GB, we ve decided to challenge people to break those caps. Obviously we can t verify if someone actual... Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:24:30 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/1116806?rsstype=tag&tag=bandwidth http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/internet-stock-blog/1116507?rsstype=tag&tag=bandwidth It's been rumored, but now it's confirmed. Comcast (CMCSA), the nation's largest cable company, is instituting a 250GB bandwidth threshold to begin October 1, the company said yesterday. If a customer uses more than 250 GB and is one of the top user... Fri, 29 Aug 2008 03:22:17 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/internet-stock-blog/1116507?rsstype=tag&tag=bandwidth http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/1116493?rsstype=tag&tag=bandwidth Comcast is out telling defending its bandwidth caps and how they are not bad. And how 250 GB transfer is plenty and enough to do whatever we want to do. Of course, in today s terms that is more than enough, but what happens in the future. Neverthe... Fri, 29 Aug 2008 02:49:40 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/1116493?rsstype=tag&tag=bandwidth http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/1116221?rsstype=tag&tag=bandwidth Karl Bode over on DSL Reports reports that Comcast will institute a 250 GB cap on its broadband connections starting Oct. 1. Expect other carriers to follow suit and make tiered broadband a reality. Much as I would like to think otherwise, this is th... Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:35:03 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/1116221?rsstype=tag&tag=bandwidth http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/1116227?rsstype=tag&tag=bandwidth I was talking to an executive at a major label the other day. We were talking about startups and he noted that they either sue these companies out of business or legitimize them out of business. That is not far from the truth. How many legitimate,... Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:23:38 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/1116227?rsstype=tag&tag=bandwidth http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/internet-stock-blog/1115652?rsstype=tag&tag=bandwidth As the world evolves technologically and becomes more sophisticated and even more connected, global telecom carriers continue to commit millions of dollars in vital infrastructure to keep communication flowing via the necessary bandwidth capacity for... Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:35:10 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/internet-stock-blog/1115652?rsstype=tag&tag=bandwidth http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/1115485?rsstype=tag&tag=bandwidth Ever since my troublemaker friend Andy Abramson figured out a way to make VoIP calls over GoGo, the in-flight broadband system from Aircell, there has been a flurry of activity leading to the banning of some of the services Andy used.Andy s experim... Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:21:23 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/1115485?rsstype=tag&tag=bandwidth http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/1115359?rsstype=tag&tag=bandwidth Google is working with a consortium of carriers to become part of an intra-Asian submarine cable system, tentatively called the Southeast Asian Japan Cable (SJC). The cable would be Google s second play in the sub-sea category. The new cable links ... Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:26:50 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/1115359?rsstype=tag&tag=bandwidth http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/1115024?rsstype=tag&tag=bandwidth Larry Dignan, who writes at the Between The lines blog, talked to Qwest CTO Pieter Poll about company s future plans including fiber-based broadband. Unlike Verizon, Qwest has opted for fiber-to-the-node strategy. The company is pushing fiber to a ... Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:58:24 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/1115024?rsstype=tag&tag=bandwidth http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/1115025?rsstype=tag&tag=bandwidth After the FCC last week told Comcast it had 30 days to file its new network management plan that involves cutting back speeds for users who are using too much bandwidth, the mainstream media is learning more about the slowdown plan Comcast CTO Tony W... Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:15:08 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/1115025?rsstype=tag&tag=bandwidth http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/1115026?rsstype=tag&tag=bandwidth The Internet has given us plenty of something for nothing, and we ve comfortably allowed advertising to support that free content. After all, its a model we re familiar with from TV, magazines and newspapers. But on the Internet, the advertising-... Mon, 25 Aug 2008 15:09:55 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/1115026?rsstype=tag&tag=bandwidth http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/1114150?rsstype=tag&tag=bandwidth Okay that is a bit over the top! Nielsen Mobile came out a report that points out that there were 13 million mobile data cards in the US at the end of June 2008. Not a big surprise, since wireless carriers in the US are having a blockbuster year as f... Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:16:07 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/1114150?rsstype=tag&tag=bandwidth http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/1113823?rsstype=tag&tag=bandwidth Having followed the optical network business for over a decade, one thing I have learned is that the boom and bust cycles of the business often mask patterns that have long-term implications. The overbuilding of U.S. networks in the 1990s foretold a ... Mon, 18 Aug 2008 11:26:15 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/1113823?rsstype=tag&tag=bandwidth http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/1113824?rsstype=tag&tag=bandwidth We have been following the emergence of 4G technologies pretty closely, including the looming battle between WiMAX and Long Term Evolution (LTE). As part of this continuing coverage, we are going to give you short updates on these technologies and cu... Mon, 18 Aug 2008 01:21:42 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/1113824?rsstype=tag&tag=bandwidth http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/1113834?rsstype=tag&tag=bandwidth Many people are familiar with the coffee shop s Wi-Fi, while others even know how to set up a simple home network. Pretty much everyone, however, knows that Wi-Fi is what makes it all possible. That ubiquity is what many venture firms are counting ... Fri, 15 Aug 2008 10:14:45 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/1113834?rsstype=tag&tag=bandwidth http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/1113195?rsstype=tag&tag=bandwidth Unless you re actively seeding torrent files or dream of one day having HD content streamed from the web to your TV, the debate over managing networks can seem hopelessly abstract. To help the rest of us understand why fast networks with a lot of ... Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:20:42 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/1113195?rsstype=tag&tag=bandwidth http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/1113196?rsstype=tag&tag=bandwidth Dr. Steven Low, a professor at the California Institute of Technology, has spent much of his life studying transmission communication control protocol (TCP), a technology that allows us to send emails, watch online videos and make Skype calls. TCP es... Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:59:33 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/1113196?rsstype=tag&tag=bandwidth http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/1113057?rsstype=tag&tag=bandwidth For any of us who recognize that personal privacy on the web is an illusion, the response to a Congressional inquiry asking how various ISPs and online portals target advertising and collect data will come as no surprise. Aside from the use of deep-p... Tue, 12 Aug 2008 11:17:14 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/1113057?rsstype=tag&tag=bandwidth http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/alec-saunders-log/1111943?rsstype=tag&tag=bandwidth Image via WikipediaFirst we chatted about Vint Cerf s proposal that ISPs should guarantee minimum bandwidth to their customers. The engineering problems with guaranteed bandwidth appear to be the achilles heel of Cerf s proposal.We also chatted a... 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