The AppGap – Did anyone else hear John Chambers interviewed on CNBC Wednesday September 3?  The video is available here.
In response to a question from Australian telecommunications company Telstra’s CEO Saul Eslake about new ways for companies to grow organically, Chambers talked about the growth in video, telepresence and visual networking and its potential to increase productivity. 
Chambers made the case that [...] read more

T1 Rex’s Business Telecom Explainer – Telecommunications infrastructure is rapidly changing from circuit switched time division multiplexing technology to packet switched IP technology. Standard telecom circuits for voice and data services now find their territory being encroached upon by upstart MPLS and Metro Ethernet connections. But this is more about entry level services such as T1 lines, right? There is no real competition for [...] read more

IT Blogwatch – In Labo[u]r Day’s IT Blogwatch, we wonder why we don’t see so much international Internet traffic crossing U.S. borders these day. Not to mention a Gustav resource miscellany…

John Markoff starts off: The era of the American Internet is ending. Invented by American computer scientists during the 1970s, the Internet has been embraced around the globe. During the network’s first three decades, most Internet traffic flowed through the United States. [But] it would have been impossible for the United States to maintain its hegemony [...] read more