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Wednesday, October 30, 2002

Drivel:  John Robb writes a nice piece on the every changing landscape of broadband providers.  John is arguing that ISP's should move their content services to the desktop, which will eventually happen.  However, some of the basic drivers he cites are misleading.  The entire Internet is made up of thousands of private networks.  This will never change.  The notion of a "public Internet" is extremely misleading.  Just as there is no such thing as a free lunch there is no such thing as free bandwidth, particularly when it comes to wireless data services.  As content services do move to the desktop, the weight and dependence upon the network will increase as data flows freely to its destination rather than be locked in a centralized location.  The investments that would have been made in servers and localized infrastructure will be shifted to building out the core and edge infrastructure and building new delivery services in order to manage the flow of data.  New initiatives will be started to enable the metering, monitoring, and management of the increased traffic.  "Content routing" and "content networking" will become a reality, giving birth to ìobject oriented networking."  This new reality will change the way networks are bought and paid for.  6:37:04 PM   comments ()

Drivel:  I am finally in an office on a network that will let me do what I need and want to do.  3:57:18 PM   comments ()

Drivel:  Another set back here in Seattle.  I just found out that the final piece of equipment that we were to receive will not be ready for another four weeks.  It will arrive just as we are supposed to be finishing the project.  However, we did anticipate this and develop two contingency plans.  They are being explored now and we should have a solution in the next 72 hours.  3:56:21 PM   comments ()

Drivel:  I notified my ISP, Primus Telecommunications, that I would not be renewing my leased line contract for another year because AT&T Broadband has finally expanded into my neighborhood.  Primus gave me a pretty hard time about canceling my contract by making me send multiple emails and faxes to various different departments informing them that I would not be renewing my contract.  This got me pretty hopping mad.  I understand a need for a written letter, but doing all of the extra stuff they asked for was absolutely ridicluous.  By the time I finished their process, I was five days past the deadline that they established for them to receive all of the notices that they said they required.  They informed me that they would be automatically renewing my contract for another year.  At this point I threatened legal action and we promptly came to an agreement to disconnect the service on November 9 rather than October 31.  I needed the few extra days to migrate my network and they were looking for some additional revenue, so the agreement worked for everyone.  On October 28 Verizon, the local loop provider, disconnected my circuit based on a disconnect request from Primus.   This was two weeks too soon based on the agreement we had discussed.  Primus confessed that they had sent a disconnect request to Verizon to have my circuit removed on October 28.  So, with only half of my network and services migrated they cut me off from the world.  To complicate things further, I am in Seattle with no physical access to my servers at home.  It has been almost 48 hours since the circuit was disconnected and there is still no resolution in sight.  1:20:06 PM   comments ()

Drivel:  I have been transitioning ISP's over the past couple of days and have had no access to email.  I feel like my connection to the rest of the world was just switched off.  It has been aweful.  12:30:31 PM   comments ()

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