In a subterranean labyrinth of aging pipes and bundled wires stretching for miles in every direction, these engineers are trying to make this city's densely packed communications networks less ...

Remember when the internet was just nascent and telecoms were investing heavily in expanding and upgrading their network infrastructure to support internet connectivity? They laid fiber-optic cables, ...

Do they teach networking history classes yet? Or is it still too soon? I was reading [Al]’s first installment of the Forgotten Internet series, on UUCP. The short summary is that it was a system for ...

One of the drawbacks of renting apartments was that I couldn't go crazy with my network setup. Between landlord restrictions on pulling cables through the walls and not wanting to see visible Ethernet ...

When I was first struggling to learn about computer networking standards 100 years ago, a friend who happened to be big in the IEEE boiled the whole thing down for me with a light bulb analogy. “You ...

COMMENTARY--Fear of perpetuating a monopoly was cited by Senator Ernest Hollings (D-S.C.) as reason to oppose the Tauzin-Dingell Broadband bill. Co-sponsored by House Representatives Bill Tauzin (R-LA ...

This past summer, I attended a Society of Industrial and Office Realtors (SIOR) conference in Chicago where Mike Lipsey was one of the featured speakers. As he summed up his presentation, he said the ...