Posts Tagged ‘internet’

LTE Not Impressing “Down Under”

Monday, May 24th, 2010

The industry backed LTE 4G standard is poised to be a great contender to the existing WiMAX technology. While a few countries have already started rolling out LTE networks, and many more are in the starting blocks, Australia have decided to not follow this development.
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Overlay Networks and the Implications for Standards

Monday, April 19th, 2010

In my previous post, I discussed the actuality of Charles Duell’s 1899 statement “Everything that can be invented has been invented” on the basis of reluctances to innovate at the very core of the Internet and the role of overlay networks.

In this post, I try to answer the question: what are the implications for standards by these overlay networks?
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Has Everything That Can Be Invented Been Invented Already?

Friday, April 16th, 2010

Innovation at the core of the Internet

Everything that can be invented has been invented” is a statement attributed to Charles H Duell, Commissioner, U.S. patent office, 1899. No one really expects this to be true…

But oddly enough, when it comes to the Internet, the incorporation of new innovation has some unique caveats.

Charles H Duell

It is almost that we want Charles Duell’s statement to be true!
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As the Internet Completes it´s 40th Anniversary- How Will the Next 40 Years Look Like?

Friday, November 27th, 2009

640px-australian_state_route_40svgThe Internet has completed it’s 40th anniversary this fall– But how will the next 40 years look like? And by extension, which factors will influence the next 40 years of evolution of the Internet?
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