Telecom and Networking

https://eager.io/blog/the-history-of-the-url-domain-and-protocol/ Good reading you are intetested in history of Internet. →

http://www.theverge.com/2016/7/10/12139700/telecom-companies-5g-service-european-union-net-neutrality Operators see network neutrality as challenge for them to do Internet business that makes lots of money. Are they trying to hold 5G hostage? →

http://www.zdnet.com/article/facebook-unveils-opencellular-its-open-source-wireless-access-platform/ With the aim of keeping the system low-maintenance, Facebook is using an existing open source, real-time operating system that can be remotely run and monitored. →

Within the last weeks there has been several things that can affect to the future of the Internet. First United Nations officially condemned the practice of countries shutting down access to the internet at a meeting of the Human Rights Council. It effectively extends human rights held offline to the internet – including freedom of →

I have written several earlier on audio over Ethernet technologies. Audio over Ethernet (AoE) is the use of an Ethernet-based network to distribute real-time digital audio. It is designed to replace bulky snake cables and fixed wiring with standard network structured cabling. Most AoE systems use proprietary protocols (at the higher OSI layers) which create →

http://spectrum.ieee.org/telecom/wireless/why-wifi-stinksand-how-to-fix-it?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+IeeeSpectrum+%28IEEE+Spectrum%29&utm_content=FaceBook This article is a very good overview on today’s WiFi wireless networking problems. WiFi is so popular that it works more or less baddly for many users. And new standards that promise more speed do not make WiFi more reliable. →

This is main electrical distribution panel in modern house in Finland. Notice the networking patch panel and cable TV signal distribution taking the bottom half of panel. Here is closer look to part where cable TV,  Internet (cat6 copper) and untermimated fiber optic cable comes into house. →

http://spectrum.ieee.org/telecom/internet/was-the-internet-inevitable?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+IeeeSpectrum+%28IEEE+Spectrum%29&utm_content=FaceBook Something to think about. Would we have now a set of isolated networks if history were any different? →

Yesterday I posted about DMX-512 dimmer. DMX-512 is a lighting industry standard way of controlling lighting equipment.DMX-512 allows for one controller (like a lighting desk or computer) to control many lights from many manufacturers. DMX-512 fundamentally provides 512 channels of 8-bit resolution (0-255) level control(which constitue a DMX ‘universe’) using serial  RS-485 communications at 250 →

http://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/telecom/internet/the-fathers-of-the-internet-revolution-urge-todays-pioneers-to-reinvent-the-web?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+IeeeSpectrum+%28IEEE+Spectrum%29&utm_content=FaceBook The web as it is used today has problems like security, privacy and big information silos. Re-invention and changes how web is needed to solve them. →