Wayne Rash

Tom McInerneys Guba is one of those companies that AT&T said is getting a “free ride.” Guba has deals with Sony and Warner Bros. to deliver movies to customers over the Internet and, as a result, demands a lot of bandwidth. Its companies such as his that AT&T would like to charge extra to serve. […]

Kimberly Johnson, a Washington social studies teacher, views the net neutrality debate through the prism of tiered services. If—and for now its a big if—carriers could put search engines such as Google and Yahoo on a more expensive service tier, its unlikely Johnsons school would foot the bill. Johnsons school is Roosevelt High School in […]

Dr. René Alvarez lives and works in Homer, Alaska, a small city on a scenic bay in the southwest part of the state. Getting Internet access in Homer isnt a problem. In fact, this city is the jumping-off point for a new fiber-optic link to Kodiak Island that went into operation in late July. Unfortunately, […]

For Dr. René Alvarez, a surgeon from Homer, Alaska, the debate surrounding network neutrality isnt about the digital minutia of speeds and tiered services; it could be about life and death. For his patients in Alaskas interior, the Internet isnt a link to movies and games. “The Internet,” he said during a recent meeting in […]

WASHINGTON—The Federal Communications Commission decided Aug. 3 to reaffirm its stance on the deployment of broadband-over-power-line technology. In a Memorandum Opinion and Order adopted by the FCC today, the commissioners affirmed that BPL providers have the right to provide data access using power transmission lines, provided they dont interfere with existing radio services. By adpting […]

Within a year, the Caltrain commuter rail system expects to have public wireless access available to its riders on the 80-mile line that runs from San Francisco to San Joses southern suburbs. The rail system announced the successful conclusion of proof-of-concept testing the week of July 31. The test system isnt available for passenger use […]

Ixia announced on July 24 that the company has a new, high-density Ethernet test platform designed for large enterprises and carriers. The Optixia XM platform, coupled with the Optixia XM12 Chassis allow the company to deliver up to 144 Gigabit Ethernet or 36 10Gigabit Ethernet ports in a single chassis. Unlike its competition, the Ixia […]

Oasys Mobile is releasing a new service the company calls a Virtual Locker. The service, which provides off-line Web based backup storage for your cell phone, is designed to preserve content purchased from the Oasys Mobile Web site, but a purchase isnt necessary to use the service, and it will also store information such as […]

WASHINGTON—What was billed as the great net neutrality debate of the season started off with the participants in complete agreement. Fortunately for the audience, it didnt stay that way. Yet by the time the debate was over, the most startling fact was how close the two sides were in their positions. The debaters were Vinton […]

Dell Computer is now shipping a new wireless card that handles higher speeds and longer ranges than the 802.11g cards currently shipped by the company. The new card, which meets the current draft of the proposed 802.11n Wi-Fi standard, works with the companys XPS mobile systems and some Inspiron laptops. The Dell Wireless 1500 Draft […]