Showing posts with label internet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label internet. Show all posts

Monday, September 15, 2014

Reactions: networking and protocols

Folks,

Today we'll discuss networking and protocols (#networking). No shorts prepared, so you may either:

  • Wait until after today's class to react to class content, or
  • React now to one of these two related videos: Bob Metcalfe on Ethernet; Paul Mockapetris on DNS.
Professor Watson

Thursday, January 10, 2013

Find: the father of the Internet says that it's been monopolized

Vint Cerf: Internet competition has “evaporated” since dial-up



Internet co-creator Vint Cerf speaking at CES.

Chris Foresman

Vint Cerf, co-creator of the Internet, said today he is troubled by the prospect of companies like AT&T avoiding government regulation after the transition from traditional phone technology to all-IP networks. Already, he said, competition was decimated when the Internet moved from dial-up providers to cable companies and telcos.

Cerf—who made the Internet possible by co-developing the Internet protocol and Transmission Control Protocol technology 40 years ago—was speaking at the Consumer Electronics Show's "Silvers Summit" on technology geared toward the older population. "Some people think silver surfers don't know how to use technology. I have news for you: some of us invented this stuff," the 69-year-old Cerf noted.

This happened to be just one day after AT&T described its plans to retire the traditional Public Switched Telephone Network and become an all-IP telco. As we reported, AT&T wants to make this transition without being subject to what it calls "monopoly-era regulatory obligations," which AT&T thinks are unjustified in the Internet age. 

Thursday, December 27, 2012

Hear hear: On the us' unregulated Internet telecom monopoly

Captive Audience: Power of telecom, cable industry is growing

BroadbandOpinion: In the first of three excerpts from "Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age," author Susan Crawford examines the growing power of the telecom industry.