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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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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I've been remiss in not keeping you all up to date on the latest excitement coming out of Lafayette, LA. In the last few weeks they've been receiving a lot of national recognition for the many innovative things happening in...

Posted by Geoff Daily on November 9, 2009 10:52 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
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For everyone who's ever admired Lafayette from afar and who cares about the future of the Internet, or anyone who just enjoys watching a good time being had, I encourage you to tune in to Lafayette, LA's OneWebDay celebration tonight...

Posted by Geoff Daily on September 22, 2009 11:07 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
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Last week I had the opportunity to head back down to Cajun Country for another trip to Lafayette, LA. While there's much to share about my journeys, there's one thing in particular I want to highlight today: Lafayette is fast...

Posted by Geoff Daily on July 24, 2009 10:46 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
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Writing from Lafayette, LA, over the last few days I've witnessed an amazing confluence of events that suggest the future of education is being built down here in Cajun country. On Friday and Saturday I attended the Digital Workforce Conference...

Posted by Geoff Daily on April 22, 2009 12:25 PM | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBacks (0)
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Something interesting happened this week: Cox Communications launched its first DOCSIS 3.0 service tier, offering speeds up to 50Mbps down and 5Mbps up. But what's interesting isn't that Cox did this, it's where they did it: Lafayette, LA. The same...

Posted by Geoff Daily on April 3, 2009 10:50 AM | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBacks (0)
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Terry Huval, head of Lafayette Utility Systems, is back to bring everyone up to speed on the latest news on LUSFiber, namely that it's live! This is a proud day for the city of Lafayette and really the entire country....

Posted by Geoff Daily on March 13, 2009 11:09 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
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A few weeks ago I wrote about my experiences witnessing the next generation of app development on the campus of Louisiana Tech in the offices of NiftyTV, where students make up the majority of their employees and high-tech jobs are...

Posted by Geoff Daily on December 15, 2008 8:27 AM | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBacks (0)
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A few days ago I discovered this site, an effort by the National Science Foundation entitled "NSF and the Birth of the Internet". It's a Flash-based site that takes you through the history of the Internet and NSF's role in...

Posted by Geoff Daily on October 23, 2008 9:25 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
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We held the world's first ever CampFiber at the Travis Technology Center in Lafayette, LA. From the outside this building looks like somewhere you'd go to pay your gas bill. It's unassuming, in the heart of an oil center, and...

Posted by Geoff Daily on October 8, 2008 8:50 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
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Saturday the community of Lafayette, LA pulled off the world's inaugural CampFiber, an informal event aimed at bringing together groups of people around the central topic of what can we do with a full fiber infrastructure. This first CampFiber was...

Posted by Geoff Daily on October 6, 2008 9:35 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
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I could not be prouder to announce that App-Rising.com has its newest sponsor: Lafayette Utility Systems (or LUS). LUS is deploying a full fiber municipal network in Lafayette, LA, where readers of App-Rising.com know I've been spending a fair amount...

Posted by Geoff Daily on September 4, 2008 12:13 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
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One great frustration for advocates of fiber has long been the underutilization of the capacity full fiber networks deliver. Most applications don't require that much bandwidth, and most developers don't yet seem to be thinking in terms of what's possible...

Posted by Geoff Daily on August 6, 2008 9:45 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
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One thought that's stuck with me from my trip to Lafayette occurred near the end of my time there as I communed over drinks with Cajuns. As we were chatting they pointed to a big warehouse-looking building located near the...

Posted by Geoff Daily on April 17, 2008 8:18 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
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During my week in Lafayette a message I attempted to leave behind is that building a full fiber network isn’t enough; it’s as, if not more, important to focus on getting the community engaged with the use of broadband. While...

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TechSouth has come and gone but I wanted to share some of the things I saw while walking the show floor with my focus as always on all things broadband. First off, there were a lot of companies offering businesses...

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