Comments on: Crunch Time for Project LightSpeed http://gigaom.com/2007/02/08/crunch-time-for-project-lightspeed/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:03:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: The Law of Mobility » Blog Archive » Wireline and a Sea of Orange http://gigaom.com/2007/02/08/crunch-time-for-project-lightspeed/#comment-134713 Sun, 19 Aug 2007 19:02:38 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/02/08/crunch-time-for-project-lightspeed/#comment-134713 [...] for the past several months. Apparently, U-verse is coming to town as part of AT&T’s Project Lightspeed. The company has hired local electrical contractors to dig up yards and roll out huge spools of [...]

]]> By: GigaOM » IPTV & the ALU, Microsoft soap opera http://gigaom.com/2007/02/08/crunch-time-for-project-lightspeed/#comment-134712 Fri, 23 Feb 2007 15:04:08 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/02/08/crunch-time-for-project-lightspeed/#comment-134712 [...] it did with those middleware assets. If it did take any write-offs, I missed it. Now 2+ years later, the Microsoft IPTV based deployments are slow out of the gate. Recent reports in outlets such as The Wall Street Journal suggest that struggles continue at such marquee [...]

]]> By: GigaOM » IPTV & the ALU, Microsoft soap opera http://gigaom.com/2007/02/08/crunch-time-for-project-lightspeed/#comment-168654 Fri, 23 Feb 2007 15:04:08 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/02/08/crunch-time-for-project-lightspeed/#comment-168654 [...] it did with those middleware assets. If it did take any write-offs, I missed it. Now 2+ years later, the Microsoft IPTV based deployments are slow out of the gate. Recent reports in outlets such as The Wall Street Journal suggest that struggles continue at such marquee [...]

]]> By: Renegade R. http://gigaom.com/2007/02/08/crunch-time-for-project-lightspeed/#comment-134711 Fri, 09 Feb 2007 23:30:40 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/02/08/crunch-time-for-project-lightspeed/#comment-134711 He said she said; false 2wire is a private company. 4 services share bandwidth, with headroom for an other. Channel switching is not the problem. And oh yeah I’m the father of Anna-Nicoles baby.

]]> By: Steve http://gigaom.com/2007/02/08/crunch-time-for-project-lightspeed/#comment-134710 Fri, 09 Feb 2007 19:01:36 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/02/08/crunch-time-for-project-lightspeed/#comment-134710 Uverse needs 20Mbps because they want to do 3 simultaneous channels at about 7Mbps each.

]]> By: Steve http://gigaom.com/2007/02/08/crunch-time-for-project-lightspeed/#comment-134709 Fri, 09 Feb 2007 19:00:21 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/02/08/crunch-time-for-project-lightspeed/#comment-134709 I saw a demo two years ago – The best part of their demo was the speed of channel switching. Hands down, it would beat out Cable and satellite based on the fact you could go back to the old style of channel surfing. Not suprising that Microsoft could do the demo but not release 1.0 – Microsoft will get it right – but at the expense of their partners to whom the over promised and under delivered. Same old Microsoft.

]]> By: Victor Blake http://gigaom.com/2007/02/08/crunch-time-for-project-lightspeed/#comment-134707 Thu, 08 Feb 2007 20:54:28 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/02/08/crunch-time-for-project-lightspeed/#comment-134707 It should be 3.75Mbps for Standard Def. Video. 20Mbps ? That’s multiple channels (perhapbs adjacent channels to support smooth surfing ?)

]]> By: Andrew Schmitt http://gigaom.com/2007/02/08/crunch-time-for-project-lightspeed/#comment-134708 Thu, 08 Feb 2007 20:36:15 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/02/08/crunch-time-for-project-lightspeed/#comment-134708 Great update and summary of the WSJ article.

I’ve been saying it for nearly a year… Lightspeed is a Jedi Mind Trick.

]]>