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Comment Is this deployment comparable to Chattanooga, TN? (Score 1) 108

by schnook on Friday December 14, 2012 @11:00AM (#42286743) Attached to: Seattle To Get Gigabit Fiber To the Home and Business

I would also like to know how this compares with the deployment costs and deployment methods used by EPB in Chattanooga, TN for their Gigabit network. http://chattanoogagig.com/. I had a 100MB synchronous connection in TN for the same price I pay Comcast for a 20Mb down/ 364kb up link in Seattle area.

Researchers Beam 230Mb/sec Wireless Internet WIth LEDs 218

Posted by timothy on Thursday March 11, 2010 @06:38PM from the binded-by-the-light dept.

MikeChino writes "A group of scientists from Germany's Fraunhofer Institute have devised a way to encode a visible-frequency wireless signal in light emitted by plain old desklamps and other light fixtures. The team was able to achieve a record-setting data download rate of 230 megabits per second, and they expect to be able to double that speed in the near future. While the regular radio-frequency Wi-Fi most of us use currently is perfectly fine, it does have its flaws — it has a limited bandwidth that confines it to a certain spectrum and if you've ever had someone leech off of your connection, you know that it also leaks through walls. LED wireless signals would theoretically have none of these downsides."

Pennsylvania CISO Fired Over Talk At RSA Conference 147

Posted by timothy on Thursday March 11, 2010 @05:07PM from the perfecting-the-art-of-the-ham-fist dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Pennsylvania's chief information security officer Robert Maley has been fired for publicly talking about a security incident involving the Commonwealth's online driving exam scheduling system. He apparently did not get the required approval for talking about the incident from appropriate authorities."

Dell To Offer Open Source Bundles 84

Posted by timothy on Wednesday June 10, 2009 @03:08PM from the part-of-the-years-long-water-testing-project dept.

ruphus13 writes "Dell has been offering Linux-based machines for a while, especially its Server-class machines. Now, Dell has decided that there are several open source applications that are ready for mainstream consumers. From the post, 'While we've all been speculating about whether Dell is working on Android netbooks, the computer hardware and software vendor was busy bundling open source applications to offer to small- and medium-sized business customers looking for low-cost alternatives to commercial software. The pre-configured "SMB-in-a-box" software is only available in the US for now, but Dell expects to launch a similar offering in Asia by the end of 2009... Although no specifics have been given about which apps are included in Dell's first bundle, it is aimed at the retail sector.' It is going to be interesting to see what Dell picks as the 'must-have' applications for the SMB market."

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