Rob’s Digital Life

Doing the research into how much data you can get down Fibre using DWDM (about 25,00gbps) I stumbled across this site; www.iec.org. I’ve spent about an hour now reading some of the tutorials and as you’d expect they’re very good.

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I’ve recently been in quite a few meetings where the acronyms WDM and DWDM have been used. Now I know what WDM is wavelength division multiplexing, but I didn’t agree with them being swapped in and out as one is different from the other.
OK WDM is straight forward enough; Multiplexing is used To combine multiple [...]

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If you’ve been wondering where I’ve been, I’ve been helping out on a large deal (read over a billion dollars), I’m working on the contracts with 3 major telecoms providers within the UK. I’ve been working out of one of our locations in London, so have been stating over in a Moat house hotel near [...]

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This story from The Register is interesting or the last sentence is, “It will help counter fears that Voice over IP calls are draining revenue away from fixed-line provider”
The article suggests that Telco’s are thinking that, by converging mobile with fixed line telephony, they’ll be able to protect their market share and maintain their revenue [...]

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Russ Beattie has started the mother of all discussion over at his blog. He’s upto 40 comments already, that’s a number I’ve never seen before (i’m sure someone will point me at an even more commented upon post though ;-))
He’s have a dig a Silicon Valley and it’s lack of focus on thing’s mobile and [...]

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BT have today had to pay the NHS a six figure sum, for missing a couple of deadlines. Even though BT have had to stump up the cash, both sides report that everything is rosy. Yeah I bet, BT are probably steaming, this is a big contract for them and it’s in the press they’re [...]

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Just running the through the process of upgrading the firmware on my Treo 600. Fingers crossed it all goes to plan, upgrading firmware is an operation that always gives me goosebumps.
If you’ve got a Treo 600 on Orange you can find the update app here

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Broadwatch backs up my points about the likes of the VNO’s trying to steal a march on the big hitters in the industry.
But while Muirhead is optimistic that the Nexagent approach of flexible, multisourced VPNs suits all parties, the company faces tough competition in the form of the incumbent international VPN providers, all of [...]

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I’ve bought an FM broadcast USB device today via eBay (cheers Russ!), of course I won’t be swtiching it on, it’s just a large paper weight. But if it were to work it’ll allow me to broadcast the 5gb’s of music stored on the PC around the house to any device with an FM radio [...]

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I totally, agree with Robert Hamilton here (MMS to Landlines)…MMS isn’t exactly causing the cash tills to overflow. Do they seriously expect us all to go out and buy new (proably v.expensive with colour displays)fixed line phones? Most people using this technology aren’t exactly Luddites, so will probably have email where they can receive the [...]

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