By Leslie Ellis – Hello again! When we last met on these pages, a proposed federal redefinition of “broadband” was brewing, from 25 Mbps downstream / 3 Mbps upstream, to a smooth, symmetrical, and implausible 100×100 Mbps, in both signal directions.
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By Leslie Ellis – Many things are still unclear about the “broadband bill,” and the speed reclassification, so, help me keep an eye on it, please. For now, and in closing, I leave you with a few additional linguistic gems headed to the SCTE Expo in October
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By Leslie Ellis – There are three networks that touch the average home: power, telephone, and cable. Try as it might, utility power isn’t a viable medium to carry broadband traffic. The telephone wire, well, there’s a reason the telco side of the world is so very enamored with 5G wireless.
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By Leslie Ellis – Let’s say you’re the tech, trying to find the node based on its known GPS coordinates. Whether it’s dark and snowy, or blue skies, the node is behind a fence. You know that because you can toggle a sort of “occlusion identifier,” such that the fence turns blue on your phone, indicating a vertical blocker.
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By Leslie Ellis – Chairman Pai and the FCC team locked onto the engineering community to solve what needed to be solved for the contiguous 1.2 GHz that is headed our way.
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By Leslie Ellis – We’re lucky to work in an industry that has many Special Gifts. High among them is our proclivity to come together during a crisis, treat each other as family, and lift really heavy things for the greater good.
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By Leslie Ellis — We work in an industry full of machines: From set-tops and gateways, to optical nodes and hubs, to data centers and clouds bulging with software. Which is probably why machine learning (ML) is a front-and-center topic in so many conversations, and so many industries.
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By Leslie Ellis — These days, meshes are all around us, but, like most things in digital times, they’re anything but tactile. One example is gaining considerable conversational momentum — the Wi-Fi mesh. As such, it is the focus of this installment of Nerdy Little Secrets.
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By Leslie Ellis — Summertime, for people who write and edit technical documents for a living, is a smorgasbord of nerdiness, because it’s when some of us — lots of us, actually — are up to our eyeballs.
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By Leslie Ellis — As the bandwidth builders amongst us advance the quest of multi-gigabit networks, a corollary term is emerging: “low latency.” Two words, always expressed together, in a semantic mashup that almost warrants removing the space between the two words: lowlatency.
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