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Friday, October 10th, 2008
Veracity Renews Committment to Provide Service on UTOPIA
It’s very press-releasey, but still worth a read: Veracity has no plans to leave UTOPIA. Given that the future of MSTAR is rather shakey, it’s good to see that one of the initial providers plans to sitck around for the long-haul.
No Comments » - Posted in Cheers, News, UTOPIA by Jesse
Friday, October 10th, 2008
Perry City Council to get UTOPIA Update on October 20
I got a note from a reader that the Perry City Council is expecting to receive an update from UTOPIA on their progress in the city during the city council meeting on October 20th at 7PM. If you’re looking for information on when UTOPIA will be available in Perry, you should make you’re at this [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Events, UTOPIA by Jesse
Friday, October 3rd, 2008
U-CAN Report: September 2008
The name of the game is frustration. Residents in Brigham City are eager to see UTOPIA get deployed, but they’re a bit sour on the Real Soon Now(TM) deployment date, one they’ve heard and seen missed before. Many aren’t going to wait around forever, instead going for cable modem, DSL and even wireless or cellular [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Events, U-CAN, UTOPIA by Jesse
Monday, September 22nd, 2008
The Story Behind the iProvo Portals
A lot has been made of the issues with phone service on iProvo and the blame laid at the feet of World Wide Packets (now owned by Ciena). After getting a techincal overview of what’s going on with the devices, it appears that the blame is well-placed. As promised, earlier, here’s the explanation as to [...]
11 Comments » - Posted in Essays, UTOPIA, iProvo by Jesse
Thursday, September 18th, 2008
The Real Story Behind Veracity and Nuvont
I had the chance to sit down with someone from Veracity yesterday to get a better understanding of what they do and how they do it. One of the things that came up that is the relationship between Veracity and Nuvont, a spin-off company. I know I had a bit of confusion as to the [...]
8 Comments » - Posted in News, UTOPIA, iProvo by Jesse
Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
UTOPIA’s Potential for Hosted Services
Last week, I had the opportunity to go visit TenX Networks to see what kind of network devices they build and how this could apply to UTOPIA. (Disclosure: they bought me lunch, but nothing fancy.) Their basic premise is to build network appliances using off-the-shelf Linux software to keep costs low while providing a high [...]
11 Comments » - Posted in News by Jesse
Saturday, September 13th, 2008
U-CAN Meetings for September
U-CAN Meetings will be held this month in Brigham City and West Valley City. Due to the lengthy travel time involved in getting up to Brigham City, no meetings will be held this month in Utah or Davis Counties. The meeting in Brigham City will be held at the Brigham City Carnegie Library at 26 [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in Events, U-CAN by Jesse
Friday, September 12th, 2008
FTTH Coming Soon to Manti, Ephraim, Sterling
It’s not just cash-rich incumbent telcos (read: Verizon) that can get in on the FTTH action. Broadband Properties Magazine reported in the August/September issue that Manti Tele Communications Company is replacing its copper with a brand-new FTTH network designed to devlier faster Internet speeds as well as IPTV. The company’s website (which looks like it [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in Cheers, News by Jesse
Friday, September 5th, 2008
Insider: Broadweave Selling Re-branded Veracity Service, MSTAR to Follow Suit
Remember how Broadweave constantly hammered on the importance of owning thier own phone switch? Apparently it’s all talk and no walk. An insider has revealed that Broadweave resells phone service from Veracity for all of the customers they acquired from MSTAR on the iProvo network. With Broadweave unable to control all of the SIP session [...]
29 Comments » - Posted in Rumors, UTOPIA, iProvo by Jesse
Saturday, August 30th, 2008
iProvo Deal Closes: Sorenson Gone, EsNet Takes Their Place
Seems that the rumors were true: Sorenson took a long, hard look at the sale of iProvo to Broadweave and said “no thanks”. Despite this, Broadweave managed to line up alternate funding that appears to be an amalgation of EsNet and some of Broadweave’s existing investors including Fraser Bullock of Sorenson. Broadweave is playing thier [...]
