Where is the Public Telecommunication Network going in the next 5-years, 10-years? I started to say, the sky's the limit; but as I'm typing I realize that is probably not true. We already have access to Hubble Telescope images on our computers! We see amazing new services everyday being made available to anyone with a broadband connection. I was looking at an aquarium on ebay and found I could configure a text message to my cell phone to remind me to check before the bidding ended. I've read some article that 40-50 Mb services are not uncommon to homes in certain parts of Asia. It just keeps going and going.
I made a giant step this year and am only keeping one yellow pages book. In our area, we get 5 to 7 different books from different publishers all covering slightly different areas and having different advertisers. I used to dutifully stack them up, in case I needed to find something. I've done this for the past two years and never used them at all. Everything I've needed I've found faster and easier using the internet. This year as they landed on the front porch, they went straight to the recycle bin - except one... I'm having a hard time letting go of that last one - maybe next year!
Monday, October 09, 2006
Sunday, May 07, 2006
Telco Resources
There are many resources available for Dedicated T1 Pricing available on the internet. There are also many other Telecom related resources and information available to help educate the consumer to find the best value for the telecommunications budget.
Here are several of my favorite blogs for T1, DSL Availability and VoIP Information.
Here are several of my favorite blogs for T1, DSL Availability and VoIP Information.
Wednesday, April 19, 2006
Monday, March 14, 2005
Telecommunications History
Where is telecommunications going in the next five years? Let's look at the history of telecommunications and see if we can learn some lessons to help us build on the foundation of events past.
Electronic communications started with the simple teletype whereby current traveled along a cable and opened and closed a relay. By using a code of short and long relay closures or dots and dashes which became known as "Morse Code" a message code passed along a wire. This was the first major technological communication advance and it was huge. Instead of days or weeks for a message to make it across a state or country using the pony express; the message could be recieved in a matter of minutes or hours to decode the message and have it delivered locally.
The next advance in electronic communication was the ability to pass voice on the wire instead of the impersonal dots and dashes. This also made communication available to anyone instead of those skilled in the use of Morse Code. This advancement was possible because the discovery of pulse code modulation. In a nutshell, pulse code modulation takes a sampling of the multitude of tones made the human voice and transforms those tones into pulse or many dots and dashes! These pulses could transmitted relatively long distance on copper wire and the CODEC reassembles the pulse back into an excellent representation of human speech.
Electronic communications started with the simple teletype whereby current traveled along a cable and opened and closed a relay. By using a code of short and long relay closures or dots and dashes which became known as "Morse Code" a message code passed along a wire. This was the first major technological communication advance and it was huge. Instead of days or weeks for a message to make it across a state or country using the pony express; the message could be recieved in a matter of minutes or hours to decode the message and have it delivered locally.
The next advance in electronic communication was the ability to pass voice on the wire instead of the impersonal dots and dashes. This also made communication available to anyone instead of those skilled in the use of Morse Code. This advancement was possible because the discovery of pulse code modulation. In a nutshell, pulse code modulation takes a sampling of the multitude of tones made the human voice and transforms those tones into pulse or many dots and dashes! These pulses could transmitted relatively long distance on copper wire and the CODEC reassembles the pulse back into an excellent representation of human speech.
Friday, January 28, 2005
Thursday, January 27, 2005
Telco Links
AT&T, Sprint, Verizon, SBC, Qwest, Verizon Wireless, Adtran, Alcatel, Nortel, Lucent, Fujitsu, Siemens, Nokia, Juniper Networks, Trango, Proxim, BellSouth, CNN.Com, MSN, Yahoo, Google, New Edge, XO, MCI/WorldCom, Verizon OnLine, Alltel, Comcast, Adelphia, DSLReports, Dell, Gateway, Cisco, Microsoft, Mapquest, SuperPages, DMOS, Level3, Covad, T1sRus, DSLrUs, SharpTelco.Com, Sunshine Honey, CurbCentral.Com
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