Digital-Lifestyles

This is the kind of forward thinking that should be applauded. You might think that it’s an obvious idea but that doesn’t mean the people normally involved in this process would think of it. By using an internal conduit in the gas pipes, fibre can be passed though the pipes giving a 75 percent cost saving. Currently 60 percent of households in rural North Carolina don’t have a computer but the state can obviously see an advantage in this changing.

Amazing, BT announce that they are to scrap SDSL (sends and receives data at the same speed) due to a ‘lack of demand’. Perhaps the lack of demand is due to them not telling anyone about it (amply illustrated by the fact that a search for SDSL on BT.com returns no results). I spend a significant part of every day researching the BB market and I haven’t even hear of the trial. This is typical BT – they don’t want to do it (it would impact their very profitable leased-line business), so they say there’s no demand.

Good to see that Freeserve is actively trying to encourage broadband access in the UK – even if they still have to continue to pay a high wholesale price to BT.

A startup, ZeoSync are claiming a new compressions technique called Relational Differentiation Encoding that will eventually give 100 to 1 loss-less compression. Clearly groundbreaking/world-changing if true. Time will tell if it proves to be true.