As many of you know, in July I made a major change in my life, namely throwing all of my worldly possessions into a box, packing my wife and cat into a car, and making the move from DC to...

Posted by Geoff Daily on September 7, 2010 10:18 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
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The long-awaited video record of FiberFete--an invitation-only event held in April in Lafayette, LA that explored the question of "Now that you have fiber, what can you do with it?"--is now available online! To get these kicked off, I thought...

Posted by Geoff Daily on June 8, 2010 8:43 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
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In yet another sign of the gaping chasm between America's broadband trajectory and the rest of the world, China Telecom has announced that they're going to install a fiber network that passes 18 million homes this year. To put that...

Posted by Geoff Daily on June 1, 2010 9:18 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
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So the FCC just released its first technical paper in support of the national broadband plan. It purports to be analyzing the "broadband availability gap" and solutions for closing it. Presumably this document is intended to make the data-driven case...

Posted by Geoff Daily on May 11, 2010 11:05 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
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So there's a lot of talk about how, for good or bad, public broadband competes with private networks. Supporters of public broadband say that the impetus for these projects is a need for greater competition. Critics of public broadband paint...

Posted by Geoff Daily on May 5, 2010 10:56 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
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As a special treat, I've compiled the results of a raffle we held at FiberFete to win an iPad. To enter into the raffle participants had to write down an idea of what they'd do with 100Mbps. We were able...

Posted by Geoff Daily on April 30, 2010 11:55 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
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Whew! My apologies for the delay in getting a new post up, but it's been an amazing ride ever since FiberFete took off last week. The energy that has come out of that conference is truly remarkable. In case you...

Posted by Geoff Daily on April 29, 2010 9:59 AM | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBacks (0)
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Next week, Lafayette, LA is playing host to the first-ever FiberFete, a three-day, invitation-only conference focused on exploring the question of, "Once you have fiber, what can you do with it? How should having fiber change the way we think...

Posted by Geoff Daily on April 14, 2010 10:03 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
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With the Google Fiber project all the rage, I want to take a moment to share my plan of attack for the project if I ran Google in the hopes they find some of these ideas useful. For starters, let's...

Posted by Geoff Daily on April 7, 2010 9:52 PM | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBacks (0)
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While America still lags the rest of the world in the deployment of high capacity broadband networks, the last few years have seen us improve rather dramatically. The catalyst for this improvement has been Verizon's decision to invest nearly $20...

Posted by Geoff Daily on March 30, 2010 12:17 AM | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBacks (0)
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Last week FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski unveiled his "100 Squared" initiative, which sets the goal of America having 100 million households connected to 100Mbps by 2020. But what does that goal really mean? Is that 100Mbps symmetrical, with as much...

Posted by Geoff Daily on February 21, 2010 10:00 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
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Wow! Wow, wow, wow!!! That's all I've been thinking ever since reading the hot-off-the-presses announcement that Google's going to invest in building out open fiber networks to serve at least 50,000 and up to 500,000 households. Their intent is threefold:...

Posted by Geoff Daily on February 10, 2010 1:46 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
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A few weeks ago I met Patrick Chung, managing director for SK Telecom Ventures, at Supernova, a terrific conference in San Francisco focused on communications technologies and their ramifications. SK Telecom Ventures is the venture arm of SK Telecom, one...

Posted by Geoff Daily on December 28, 2009 11:39 AM | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBacks (0)
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There's been a lot of buzz around the benefits and relative viability of wiring all community anchor institutions (schools, libraries, hospitals, etc.) with fiber as the way to get the best bang for the broadband buck. But recent conversations with...

Posted by Geoff Daily on December 1, 2009 10:13 AM | Permalink | Comments (5) | TrackBacks (0)
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Yesterday the FCC featured what I found to be the most interesting, insightful, and in-depth broadband workshop yet on the topic of advanced fiber architectures. Organized and moderated by David Isenberg, this wide-ranging discussion brought up a number of excellent...

Posted by Geoff Daily on November 20, 2009 12:52 PM | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBacks (0)
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One of the challenges advocates of a 100Mbps Nation have faced has been the lack of an accurate estimate for what it will cost to achieve our goal. The FCC suggested that achieving a universal 100Mbps Nation would cost $350...

Posted by Geoff Daily on November 18, 2009 2:16 PM | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBacks (0)
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An exciting development has occurred recently in the world of fiber deployment. A new model is emerging in Brigham City, a city of less than 20,000 in northern Utah, for how user-owned open fiber networks can be financed and deployed....

Posted by Geoff Daily on November 16, 2009 10:30 AM | Permalink | Comments (4) | TrackBacks (1)
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As Verizon nears the end of its initial $23 billion rollout of FiOS, it's seeming likely that they're going to focus more on marketing what they've already built rather than expanding their fiber footprint further. While I'm admittedly disappointed that...

Posted by Geoff Daily on October 30, 2009 11:46 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
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I've recently learned that there's still some debate going on as to whether or not all community anchor institutions need fiber. Let's put that to rest here and now. Before going any further, let me admit upfront that I understand...

Posted by Geoff Daily on October 12, 2009 9:32 AM | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBacks (0)
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Too often broadband policy debates get caught up in attempts to be technology neutral, losing sight of the significance of individual technologies, the most significant of which is fiber. When you think of the Internet, you should think of fiber...

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