List of Future Topics

Six days have passed since my last post. That can't be good. I do have lots of material, though. Here are the items I added to a note to myself so far.

traffic: good, bad and ugly
bad traffic unblocked: spam, 419, id theft, botnets, scans
good traffic blocked: protests against injustice, freedom fighter communication
one person's bad traffic is another person's good traffic
good traffic delayed because bad traffic wastes resources, causes congestion, or is just plain a denial-of-service attack
QOS = quality of service, give preference to such as voice, take preference from such as long downloads

P2P
IP, patents, copyright
bittorrent
kazaa, limewire, bearshare

CALEA Law Enforcement
PCI Payment Card Industry security rules

Truth in advertising
bits is not necessarily bits, then bytes just confuse us, or vice versa

Truth, Secrets, Partial Truth and Lies

Microsoft
windows security bugs, botnet bait, Vista attempt to fix made a big mess
excess traffic for updates
Office (starting with Basic for Apple/Commodore/Atari/etc) tendency to mix data and instructions

Cisco
Juniper
PacketFront?

Open Source
tools, servers, LAMP - Linux/BSD, Apache, MySQL, Perl/Python/PHP

Digital Convergence
Triple Play, phone, TV, internet -- just internet covers that

Digital Divide

Generation Gap

network management, instrumentation
SOHO/residential router problems
10 Mbits half duplex autonegotiate
forwarding packet storms
No IPV6

IPV6

diversity (tpc term,) redundant paths

CDN
akamai, limelight, nyud.net:8090 coral coralcdn.org

LANL
ESnet mandate by federal government

#Design-nine, Blacksburg, VA and Andrew Cohill
# www.designnine.com, ./staff/cohill.html,
# library/docs/handouts/D9_case_studies.pdf (Waterloo vs. Cedar Falls, IA)

fiber equipment
3-or-more-port bridge for loop
PON, B-PON, GE-PON, Fujitsu? in Lincoln City, OR
instruments, OTDR, fusion splicer, light source - power meter, fiber identifier

PON - passive optical network
commodity equipment - so far, *not* PON, but active power equipment
used to be 10 Mbit, not 100, now 1 Gbit, not 10 Gbit
PON standard is asymmetric, slower upload than download
Japan moving from B-PON to GE-PON (gigabit ethernet)
active means copper power wires (see power backup)

excavation, trenching, drilling, trenchless technology, sub-surface utility engineering (Underground Focus,) robotic gopher, pedestal, splice closure,
equipment cabinet/rack/box
call before you dig, nmonecall
GPR, magnetic-field locators
little beaver, underwunder
pneumatic mole

sewer as conduit, citylink

overhead distribution

wireless, interference, especially 802.11b/g, unlicensed vs. icensed
wifi
proprietary
wimax
cell phone companies
municipal projects failure rate
internet cafes, airport hot spots

government outside county
state General Services provision, osogrande vs. qwest
universities/stategov/munigovs NM Gigapop, lambdarail/internet2

corruption
Santa Fe schools IT manager, Sandoval County - alleged, no convictions yet

county
franchise
# Milder committee - Spivak, Uptown, Utilities - Robert (Buck) Monday
# ?some third study before 2004 -- Cohill - PacketFront?
Feb 17, 2004 council meeting at courtroom
http://files.losalamosnm.us/cco/CouncilMinutes/2004%20Minutes/021704min.pdf
Brunetti-DEC contract, http://communityfiber.blogspot.com/2004_04_04_communityfiber_archive.html

peering exchange
IXNM
local

locality

power backup
UPS, batteries, generator, solar for non-wired spot (ridge-top repeater)

financing installation (rent vs. own)
government: bond, loan guarantee or tax credit