Rob’s Digital Life

I’m taking some time off this week as it’s half term. So I’ve dusted off the moutain bike and taking it for the odd spin…see you in a few days.

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Very High Bit Rate DSL 2 (VDSL2), a new standard is likely to be
ratified by next week, making it possible for carriers to provide upto
100 megabits per second connections (both up and down) over copper
lines. [via]
Well it hasn’t taken that long to jump from 2+ to VDSL2 has it.

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Mobile adhoc networking allows users to exchange information in a wireless
environment without the need for a fixed infrastructure. Each user (or
node), equipped with one or more radios, is free to roam about while communicating
with others. The path between any pair of users can traverse multiple wireless
links and the radios themselves can be heterogeneous, thus enabling [...]

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..well sort of..IBM, Nortel to collaborate on telecom products.
IBM is going to be working with Nortel making network kit based on IBM’s blade server technology.

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C&W is heavily involved in the corporate
telecoms market in the UK, where a range of rivals operators like BT
Group PLC and Colt Telecom Group PLC are all clamouring for a fairly
static number of accounts.
To offset its waning profits in its core
business, C&W has invested heavily in the booming market for
consumer broadband internet access through [...]

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Well it had to happend and it has…
Huawei/Marconi deal finalised [via gigaom]

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Norwegian giant has spent $1 billion to buy two broadband operators -
Sweden’s Bredbandsbolaget for $823 million (335,000 subscribers) and
another $237 million on Danish broadband outfit Cybercity, which has
about 90,000 customers. Looks like it is trying to become a major
player in that region [via gigaom]
$237 million dollars for 90,000 ADSL users..cripes..working on that basis somebody like [...]

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I got pointed towards the enterprise version of Google Desktop Search today. It looks interesting as it can search through Lotus Notes too. So I’ll have ago installing that later this evening.

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Efforts by broadband providers to push combined
modem/networking solutions to the consumer market are succeeding and
are fuelling a boom in home network adoption throughout Asia, Europe
and North America that will last for at least the next five years. [via TelecomTV]
This is interesting news. Is it just all the techies buying up this kit, or people [...]

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Not good news for THUS [Telegraph.co.uk]

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Running over Orange’s high-speed 3G network, the service - which will
be available from next week - has an initial line-up of 9 channels
including ITN News, CNN, Cartoon Network and extreme sports. Special
Big Brother and Celebrity Love Island channels have also been
developed. All of the channels will be streamed over the Orange 3G
network and are available [...]

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BBC New Media has today (16 May 2005) announced the next phase in the development of the BBC’s interactive Media Player (iMP): an extensive three month content trial that will begin in September 2005.
iMP offers UK viewers the chance to catch up on TV and radio programmes they may have missed for up to seven [...]

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THUS, the Glasgow-based telecoms group, has signed a £5 million deal
with Standard Life to supply and manage the life assurance firm’s voice
and data network. [via the Soctsman]
This is the first time I’ve heard THUS mentioned in the news for a while.

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2 days after finding out about TelecomTV, I noticed that light Reading now has LRTV.
Two of the videos caught my attention, Carrier Ethernet and Triple Play

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Just posted a ‘hello’ comment to Catherine’s blog.

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