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Thursday, October 16th, 2008
A Correction on the Perry Meeting
One of my sources at UTOPIA has informed me that their meeting in Perry was last month, not this month. Adjust your calendars appropriately.
2 Comments » - Posted in Events, UTOPIA by Jesse
Wednesday, October 15th, 2008
The Need for Speed: Comcast Plans to Up Speeds, Qwest Putting FTTN on Ice
As a sure sign that the souring economy is causing broadband issues, Qwest is planning to ramp down deployment of their FTTN-based ASDL2+ service. While one of their supplies cites the coming winter weather as the reason for the slow-down, but analysts are reading between the lines that plunging landline subscriptions paired with a slowing [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Cheers, Jeers, News by Jesse
Monday, October 13th, 2008
The Recent Extended Downtime
The short version is that the hosting company made a boo-boo and I’ve been rebuilding Apache and waiting for my virtual server to be moved since about 9AM this morning. If you want to know the full story, read it on my personal website.
2 Comments » - Posted in Website by Jesse
Sunday, October 12th, 2008
The Final iProvo Sale Documents
Thanks to the power of GRAMA requests, I’ve obtained all of the final documents related to the sale of iProvo to Broadweave. If you want to take a look at them for yourself, you can download them here (14.2MB ZIP). Be warned that this ZIP file contains 48 separate PDF files, so this is only [...]
17 Comments » - Posted in iProvo by Jesse
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.
2 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 [...]
6 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 [...]
