Actions may speak louder than words, but sometimes it doesn't hurt to talk about your actions either: Google just explained how Google Fiber does peering -- a clear stab at the big competitors that prefer paid peering deals.…
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New OECD report shows that connected TVs won’t break the internet, but they will break business models
A report out from the OECD takes a look at connected televisions and what it will mean for broadband networks, peering, set-top-box makers and consumers.…
Read MoreA five minute Google outage equals a big dip in internet traffic
If there was any doubt about Google and its dominant reach on the web, then the five minute outage that took down…
Read MoreFear of peers
There's clearly plenty of user-experience mischief that can be made upstream of the last mile.…
Read MoreSorry internet: The Super Bowl still happens elsewhere
The Super Bowl drove millions to their TV screens - and away from the computer. Internet traffic was down 15 percent Sunday night, despite the availability of a live stream of the event.…
Read MoreThe shape of the internet has changed: It now lives life on the edge
Thanks to more traffic that can be sent via CDNs and cached at the edge, the shape of the Internet is changing. Instead of data traveling back and forth over long-haul pipes, today's Internet looks like streams of data flowing to reservoirs at the edge.…
Read MoreTablets & TVs make online video go boom!
We all will watch 833 days of video every single second by 2016, and much of that video consumption won't happen on the PC. Instead, we are seeing a huge growth of connected TV traffic, and video consumption on tablets is also skyrocketing.…
Read MoreTraffic jams, ISPs and net neutrality
In the net neutrality debate, Internet Service Providers talk about charging content providers for prioritization so they can invest in improving infrastructure. But placing a price on prioritizing content creates an inherent disincentive to expand. Professors Hsing Cheng, Shubho Bandyopadhyay and Hong Guo elaborate.…
Read MoreToday in Connected Consumer
Perhaps not surprising to many, but Netflix now makes up nearly a third of total Internet traffic in North America. While the…
Read MoreInternet Keeps Growing! Traffic up 62% in 2010
Internet traffic has grown 62 percent in 2010, after logging a handsome 74 percent growth in 2009. The growth in traffic is coming from non-mature markets likes Eastern Europe and India where traffic growth is over 100 percent. But what does it mean?…
Read MoreHot Jobs: The (Green) Data Center Exec Shuffle of ’09
An interesting staffing phenomenon is affecting tech industry lately. As my colleague Derrick recently pointed out, we're in the midst of a data center executive shuffle and it hasn’t escaped the industry’s attention. Debra Chrapaty and a handful of other execs have shifted ranks at Microsoft, Yahoo, Apple, eBay and Cisco. But what do they all have in common? They made green IT a cornerstone in how they approach data center planning and management.…
Read MoreData Center Management: Lessons for the Grid
Utilities are raking in stimulus funds and smart meter manufacturers are working feverishly to imbue the grid with the smarts to redistribute the electrical load down to the household level when consumption rates spike. Envision automatically time shifting that EV charging or dish washing cycle to cheaper overnight hours and you’ve got the idea. It may sound complicated, but efforts to minimize data centers' carbon footprints offer many lessons — and incentives — for just this sort of smart grid innovation.…
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