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Data Overload

According to a recent FierceBroadbandWireless article by Lynette Luna, AT&T and other wireless service providers aren’t ready for “the onslaught of data traffic coming from smartphones, and that the deluge is beginning to clog their networks.”    This isn’t a huge surprise to me.  Legacy networks were never built with the intention of hauling massive [...]

The Trouble with Wires

Late last week, a group of hooligans in California cut fiber optic lines in two locations near Silicon Valley.  As a result, thousands of business and consumer customers of AT&T, Verizon and Sprint were without service.  According to an IDG News article by Stephen Lawson, the outage affected:  Two IBM facilities The Internet Assigned Numbers [...]