tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15834375396377789512011-11-23T11:35:04.266-07:00Discussion of fiber to the home/business in Los Alamos, New Mexico, for internet access.redhardhathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18315275069467935456noreply@blogger.comBlogger331100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1583437539637778951.post-56390000704991665032011-11-23T11:35:00.000-07:002011-11-23T11:35:04.273-07:00

Check out this WIRED article: Chattanooga bait

redhardhathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18315275069467935456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1583437539637778951.post-84025225150369936692011-11-03T17:12:00.000-06:002011-11-03T17:12:33.219-06:00

My previous posts on this blog have advocated fiberoptic internet technology. Some have mentioned the problems with wireless. The cellular phone companies, such as Verizon, AT&T and Sprint are transitioning over the next few years to a "4th generation" which some think might be a cure-all for all internet problems. I advocate the use of wireless in many bands and forms where it is appropriate,

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Here is a link to an article, Web surfers could catch a big wave in the Sunday May 8, 2011 Los Alamos Monitor, and the content of the article follows: Web surfers could catch a big wave Fiber optic network could produce positive economic impact By Kirsten Laskey Saturday, May 7, 2011 at 10:50 pm (Updated: May 8, 6:47 am) Web surfers in Los Alamos could be catching a really big wave in the

redhardhathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18315275069467935456noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1583437539637778951.post-37719326591665795762009-04-09T17:34:00.002-06:002009-04-09T17:38:57.978-06:00

This applies to just about all utilities, but phone, cable and any other communications utility are especially vulnerable. Just food for thought. Here's a blog entry that describes what happened in the San Francisco Bay Area early this morning: Destroy the Internet with a Hacksaw

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The power flickers this past week have caused me so much grief, I just have to comment about them. The Los Alamos Monitor has published a short explanation of most if not all of them in the next edition after the outage. Today the Sunday edition has a longer, front page, above the fold, article about a general problem with something called the RL 115KV line. I am curious what RL stands for. The

redhardhathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18315275069467935456noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1583437539637778951.post-65276146707485699002008-07-31T10:13:00.003-06:002008-07-31T10:22:28.999-06:00

Ah, I still have a chance to get at least one July post into this blog. I have thought about lots of topics, but skipped actually writing any comments about them, in the past six or ten weeks. I have been busy, but's that's no excuse.I ran across an item in a college alumni magazine that mentioned something about Internet2, in support of the Large Hadron Collider world grid, or whatever that

redhardhathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18315275069467935456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1583437539637778951.post-28438303893116589602008-06-17T14:34:00.002-06:002008-06-17T14:42:28.249-06:00

Tomorrow (Wednesday, June 18, 2008) from 2 to 4 PM, at the Los Alamos Public Schools administration school board meeting room, Dean Obermeyer has scheduled a "town meeting" for Qwest to present their product QMOE and the possibility of making it available in Los Alamos.The e-mail that Dean sent May 21 (and Kevin Holsapple of the Los Alamos Commerce and Development Corporation forwarded minutes

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I should have posted this last night when I received it, because now the lead time is so short maybe nobody will see it in time, but read Richard Lowenberg's announcement of an open discussion with Andrew Cohill at the new Santa Fe Complex, 632 Agua Fria, this afternoon from 2:30 to 4:00. Also mentioned is another session they plan to have in Albuquerque Friday.

redhardhathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18315275069467935456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1583437539637778951.post-78523302242615354642008-05-06T13:34:00.003-06:002008-08-13T20:34:01.792-06:00

Thanks to Richard Lowenberg on the 1st-mile list for the news that the Albuquerque City Council has approved an agreement with Citylink. And thanks to John Osmon for the clarification that the agreement grants Albuquerque city and schools access to fiber, not free internet bandwidth. And thanks to Gary Gomes for the link to a draft of the franchise agreement. Maybe I should wait for a few

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Warmer weather has had some problems staying around, but at least it has returned for another year. Winter moisture was good and we have an absence of trees due to the Cerro Grande fire eight years ago. I hope that lowers our risk of another fire. Seems to me May 4 was the day that was 93 degrees F and the National Park Service lit Cerro Grande.The ground has been thawed for nearly two months,

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Sunday's Monitor had an ad from tewacom.com, as wide as the full Monitor page and probably the bottom quarter or third of the page.I just checked the tewacom.com web site, and this is a company based on San Ildefonso Pueblo RUS (Rural Utility Service) grant funds from the US Department of Agriculture. They are using Motorola Canopy 900 MHz wireless hardware. They offer $24.95 per month 512

redhardhathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18315275069467935456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1583437539637778951.post-87686759741619429352008-04-16T09:39:00.002-06:002008-04-16T09:48:55.097-06:00

I realize that the few who have visited this blog in the six weeks or so that it has been around lose interest in the blog itself when my posting interval stretches out to six or seven days.But ...If we can't get a dialog going here (meaning the readers have to show enough interest to post a comment, or at least tell somebody else who will comment to read the blog), I think that means there

redhardhathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18315275069467935456noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1583437539637778951.post-70440701686989156072008-04-11T10:06:00.005-06:002008-04-11T10:41:00.106-06:00

This is about some of the internet stuff that goes on that probably isn't advancing the cause of well and good on our planet.E-spionage."The New E-spionage Threat," that's the Business Week cover story this week. Mostly it's about an e-mail that arrived at Booz Allen, supposedly about fighter aircraft for India. But that e-mail was probably really from mainland China. It contained a program

redhardhathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18315275069467935456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1583437539637778951.post-19098256322370343852008-04-10T16:15:00.002-06:002008-04-10T16:20:44.000-06:00

Someone forwarded a copy of Educause's "A Blueprint for Big Broadband" to me today. It is a whitepaper, and 74 pages long. I also see criticism that the report's target of 100 Mbits/sec is aiming too low. I agree, 100 Mbits/sec is too low a target.

redhardhathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18315275069467935456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1583437539637778951.post-28443955229702473062008-04-07T22:41:00.003-06:002008-04-07T23:31:04.135-06:00

Where in your scheme of priorities might internet fit? Maybe you like the good old days with communication face-to-face? By letters sent via the Post Office? Phone calls? Telegrams? Maybe you rate God, family, job in that order, and any communication at all has to be about those and only in ways that existed before, say, 1970?Maybe you find e-mail with family or friends useful, but the cheapest

redhardhathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18315275069467935456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1583437539637778951.post-84268883772833450022008-04-07T22:30:00.002-06:002008-04-07T22:39:49.198-06:00

I happened to venture to at least Pojoaque a couple of times in recent weeks, and I noticed some construction activity on the south side of NM 502 east of the Rio. The last trip, which I think was March 29, there were two HDD (Horizontal Directional Drilling) rigs. The pipe is white, probably threaded steel, so I suspect it is a water line. Maybe the San Ildefonso Pueblo is involved, since it

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I don't know TJ. I think she sells real estate with Los Alamos Properties, a realty business. Her letter recommends a campaign to educate us about the value of broadband here in Los Alamos, and wider participation, specifically local business, medical and educational sectors, in Los Alamos County's discussion.Why don't we have dozens of people clamoring for faster, better, cheaper internet, at

redhardhathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18315275069467935456noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1583437539637778951.post-23933742899603269142008-03-25T09:55:00.003-06:002008-03-25T10:07:46.713-06:00

The biggest problem is the price of getting internet traffic between Los Alamos and Albuquerque. That price is too high. The monopoly vendor for it is Qwest. We really need to solve that problem first.First, several large Los Alamos customers need to co-operate and order one big connection and share it. The biggest of those customers is LANL, and all the rest are by comparison insignificant.

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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

redhardhathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18315275069467935456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1583437539637778951.post-59293407639513852962008-03-19T15:00:00.004-06:002008-06-17T23:08:14.053-06:00

The February 26, 2008 Los Alamos County Council meeting (pdf of agenda) had a discussion of the Utilities Department report on fiber. Eventually, minutes of that meeting should show up on the index of 2008 Council meeting minutes, but currently February 12 is the newest. Other items at that meeting have attachments on the internet, but the Utilities fiber report does not, currently. There is

redhardhathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18315275069467935456noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1583437539637778951.post-78317347775091630512008-03-19T08:20:00.002-06:002008-03-19T14:57:41.818-06:00

The 1st-mile web site I mentioned in the previous post and my phone conversation with Richard Lowenberg led me to look up DesignNine and Andrew Cohill.Richard said that Andrew was involved with one of the past Los Alamos County fiber consulting episodes. Perhaps that was the one that involved PacketFront. Andrew certainly was involved with fiber internet in Blacksburg, Virginia.The DesignNine

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I got an e-mail today from Richard Lowenberg of Santa Fe, formerly of Davis, California and Telluride, Colorado. We had a nice chat on the phone. Check his web site at www.1st-mile.com. I like this open network idea.

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Thanks so much, Jim Rickman, for the mention on your btno blog.I guess it's just human nature. Fiberlanm drew only a single comment other than my own. That is overwhelmed by the number of comments the Fiber poor diet post on btno drew. My answer to the single comment is that I'm not sure whether 2.9 cents per minute for long distance on voice telephone has any relationship at all to fiber, or

redhardhathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18315275069467935456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1583437539637778951.post-45695672204586729032008-03-01T15:06:00.000-07:002008-03-01T15:07:37.688-07:00

I don't know whether to put this first or last. I think I'll put it first, then after I post the pieces, I'll convert it to links and repeat it as last, also. Basically, this is a Table of Contents for the over three pages of printed comments I wrote over eight years ago. And the conclusion was so short, I'll just include it here.I've been thinking about whether I should add new posts to

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[note: this was the second half of the Locality paragraph -- redhardhat]We need to share that expense, and share it fairly. Some practices that are going on are not wise, such as web pages that have continuing connections to refresh advertisement animations, which are congesting networks. Usage-based pricing must eventually happen, because flat-rate pricing is not fair. With flat-rate pricing,

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The structure of the Internet should have high local bandwidth, and locality of connections should be encouraged. Multicast should be used for audio and video distribution, otherwise we will clog our bandwidth with multiple copies of the same streams, or programs. External connections have to have sufficient bandwidth, and be able to keep latency low, too, and that's expensive. Some of the

redhardhathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18315275069467935456noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1583437539637778951.post-79971874620709485372008-03-01T14:23:00.003-07:002008-03-01T17:16:34.475-07:00

[note: tpc means "the phone company" -- redhardhat]U S West, just as the other RBOCs (Regional Bell Operating Companies) do, is fighting to get permission to offer long distance and in general escape regulation, claiming to have big financial losses adding data infrastructure. At the same time, it refuses to offer other services that make more sense for the infrastructure it owns, such as "dark

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Not only is higher bandwidth a goal, but also lower latency. Interactive use of the Internet, such as commands to and responses from remote systems, suffers when latency increases due to too many "hops" or due to congestion in any of the "hops" along the path the command and response traffic takes. In practice, we find that non-interactive traffic can cause interactive traffic to become

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Long term, fiber to the home (and the business or public facility) should be the goal. One connection at each building or area, be it a home, business, church, library, stadium, hospital, whatever, can handle all communications needs for it, be the needs voice, video, audio, data, whatever. A copper connection, even coaxial cable, just has too many disadvantages compared with fiber for handling

redhardhathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18315275069467935456noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1583437539637778951.post-13276027765846258992008-03-01T13:53:00.002-07:002008-03-01T14:00:45.206-07:00

The County government should not so much subsidize or control data communications infrastructure, as it should get out of the way of private interests installing and maintaining it. For instance, the Police Department antenna tower could be rented out for antenna placement for wireless data radios. Water towers may also be good places to put antennas.There is a Waltons episode about the mother,

redhardhathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18315275069467935456noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1583437539637778951.post-12429880182818315102008-03-01T12:59:00.008-07:002008-03-01T14:58:17.304-07:00

I don't know whether to put this first or last. I think I'll put it first, then after I post the pieces, I'll convert it to links and repeat it as last, also. Basically, this is a Table of Contents for the over three pages of printed comments I wrote over eight years ago. And the conclusion was so short, I'll just include it here.I've been thinking about whether I should add new posts to

redhardhathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18315275069467935456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1583437539637778951.post-41209672421810407252008-03-01T12:35:00.002-07:002008-03-01T12:58:04.179-07:00

Lest some idea would get lost in a blog post that addresses several separate ideas, I intend to keep each topic separate. There's a problem with that in a blog, though. The most recent post gets so much more attention than previous ones. Even comments about previous posts tend to get added to the newest post, or far fewer visitors to the blog will read those new comments if they are added to

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Now is the time to get this ball rolling.I knew when I first saw Mosaic, the web browser from the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC,) that the old ARPAnet (Advanced Research Projects Agency of the United States Department of Defense) and its e-mail, plus remote access and file transfer features, had taken a step that

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