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[alexmcdonald] 17/11/2017 11:07

3 hours till opening. We are in the Atlantic on our way back to Southampton. Looking forward to later today.
Just seen on the news that Singapore has suspended trade deals with North Korea. This bodes well for the deal to get the green light.

[freddie01] 17/11/2017 09:35

Castelul de Lut Valea Zanelor





Built in the year 1509, this Medieval home located in the Village of Argentan, France, has been standing for over 500 years. Wow!
























TOP TEN BEST MOVIE THEATRES AROUND THE WORLD
1. Hollywood Studios, United States
2. Olympia Music Hall, France
3. Pula Arena, Croatia
4. The Odyssey, France
5. Electric Cinema, England
6. Hot Tub Cinema, England
7. Transatlantyk Festival, Poland
8. Film on the Rocks, United States
9. Orange Cinema Club, China
10. Ugc De Brouckere Grand Eldorado, Belgium

[andyble] 17/11/2017 08:21

Tick tock tick tock ... drum roll ... ... !

[freddie01] 16/11/2017 08:27

Canyonlands National Park, Utah



Lenticular clouds over Lake Crowley, California



2000 year old ‘Tree of Life’, Africa



Lago Fedaia, Italy



Flowering moss, Japan



female eclectus parrot eye

(photo by young studios)

[freddie01] 15/11/2017 08:32

Old Ford



Orta San Giulio
by aneta1404



Florence Italy
by David Stern



Akureyri, Iceland.
by CHRIS TAYLOR



Tequila store in Jalisco, Mexico
by Hugo Perez



Forest River, France



Letchworth State Parks middle falls on the Genesee River



Starry night ~ Grzegorz Piechowicz



Port Blanc at sunset ~ Quiberon, Brittany, France.

[mbhesms] 14/11/2017 15:56

Headline: Ruckus VP Valliappan On M&A Madness, New High-Performance Switches And Driving Growth Through The Channel

Link:

Summary: An insight into what Ruckus have been up to with new products and what they are bringing to Arris.

[mbhesms] 14/11/2017 15:56

Headline: Ruckus Launches New High-Performance Switches, Seeks To Cool Partner Anxiety As Arris Transaction Approaches

Link:

Quote: The Sunnyvale, Calif., networking firm does not expect any further delays to the long-awaited three-way transaction that will make it part of Arris and doesn't expect its channel or product strategy to change once the transaction is complete.

Quote: Now, however, the company seems to have regained its footing and its mojo, as illustrated by the new switches.

[alexmcdonald] 14/11/2017 14:03

ARRIS SURFboard® Modems and Gateways Now Available at BrandsMart U.S.A.

[freddie01] 14/11/2017 12:02

Moon eclipse and electrical storm ~ Greek island of Ikaria








Atlantic Swirls . by Ray Bradshaw.







Snow












When the Spanish first arrived in Tenochtitlan (now downtown mexico city) they thought they were dreaming. They had arrived from incredibly unsanitary medieval Europe to a city five times the size of that century’s london with a working sewage system, artificial “floating gardens” (chinampas), a grid system, and aqueducts providing fresh water. Which wasn’t even for drinking! Water from the aqueducts was used for washing and bathing- they preferred using nearby mountain springs for drinking. Hygiene was a huge part if their culture, most people bathed twice a day while the king bathed at least four times a day. Located on an island in the middle of a lake, they used advanced causeways to allow access to the mainland that could be cut off to let canoes through or to defend the city. The Spanish saw their buildings and towers and thought they were rising out of the water. The city was one of the most advanced societies at the time.

Anyone who thinks that Native Americans were the savages instead of the filthy, disease ridden colonizers who appeared on their land is a damn fool.

[mbhesms] 14/11/2017 11:37

Headline: ANGA COM 2017 Video Interview: Tom Cloonan CTO Network Solutions at ARRIS

Link:

Summary: Many juicy tech titbits, notably:
- the prospect of extending HFC plant utilisation out to 2020, even 2030, maybe even to 2040s;
- the replacement of MPEG transport streams by IP video delivery by multicast and unicast (for VOD) is near as most of the back office kit is in place and operators are just looking for bandwidth to try it out for mixed video and high speed data;
- higher spectral efficiency from D3.1; full duplex DOCSIS will require echo cancellation at the modems and remote phy at network nodes, allows overlapping up & downstream without reducing downstream bandwidth;
- increasing cable spectrum up to 1.2 GHz and extended spectrum potentially up to 1.7GHz, maybe 5GHz, maybe even 20GHz;
- move to distributed access architectures using remote phy (simpler) or phy/mac, both have pros and cons;

[freddie01] 13/11/2017 08:07

The Sky Above II ~ Leah Kennedy



reflections of my life



Lake Como, Italy

photo via sandra



That’s one hell of a camping spot.





Joseph aka Gemini Rowena Crest Viewpoint, Oregon, USA



A beautiful sunset



Who painted the moon?

[freddie01] 12/11/2017 10:57

Seljalandsfoss Falls, Iceland



Favorite of the Year ~ Nathaniel Merz



The birth of a new day



“Calmness̶1; by Igor Zenin



Spray Falls, Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, Michigan, US

Photo ~ John McCormick



Lovrafjorden, Norway (by Silvain de Munck).



Vologda city park, Russia ~ by Kichigin Sergey

[freddie01] 11/11/2017 08:19

Bolton Abbey, England

photo via elizabetta



Clovelly, England

photo via geesher
















Everyday life of Wales from the early 1960s through a traveler’s lens.

[freddie01] 10/11/2017 11:35

Dubai.



China







Königssee, Bavaria, Germany

photo via lisa

[1gw] 10/11/2017 09:56

Just caught up with the David Potts presentation at the RBC Capital Markets TIMT conference.

Sounds like he's getting hungry to buy something else. As well as more on the wireless side (which he often brings up), he mentioned the idea of getting into datacentres as a possible "adjacency" - the first time I remember this coming up.

[freddie01] 09/11/2017 08:44

Isolated Dwellings

[mbhesms] 08/11/2017 23:41

The statistic that keeps echoing in my head from the Cablelabs article about full duplex Docsis (Post 50882) was this:

Quote: “In the United States, more than 90 percent of households are connected to an HFC (hybrid fiber-coaxial) network, ..."

90%!

The next question is what will cause these households to ask for and pay for higher broadband speeds. A lot of new technologies aren't desired until they are possessed, or at least until people hear from their neighbours how good they are. I think digital video recorders got more traction when TV personalities talked about TiVo-ing a TV event for later watching. Streaming has entered the zeitgeist with the "Netflix and chill" meme. For high speed broadband I think it will be political activism that will drive awareness as municipalities debate having their own fibre networks. Here are two examples:

Headline: SAN FRANCISCO JUST TOOK A HUGE STEP TOWARD INTERNET UTOPIA
Link:

Headline: Fort Collins voters say yes to broadband
Link:
Quote: The proposal passed despite a well-financed advertising campaign to defeat it. The political issue group Priorities First Fort Collins reported spending $451,564 on its campaign through Nov. 1.
Youtube:
Commentary: The incumbent networks may then invest in upgrades if using politics doesn't suppress competition, and when they do more people will know what they are paying for.

[andyble] 08/11/2017 17:48

Heavy and the Arris/CableLabs report mentioned in next link :-


An interpretation that puts balance just towards cable industry for 5G opportunity :-


Summary - the exponential growth of both bandwidth demand and the need for speed and quality also for all the new applications will need new advances in technology and huge investment by suppliers just to keep up. Arris is clearly leading the way.

[andyble] 07/11/2017 12:56

The scope of Full Duplex DOCSIS 3.1 is exponential plus some. Well worth catching up on usual bloggers articles and links therefrom to get a full feel of where this is going and through circa early 2019. This will mean huge investment by providers as yet another technology rollout whilst embracing so many more opportunities including small cell and 5G. I thought I was on top of where Arris' markets are going but the scope of this took me by surprise even with my already rose tinted view of the future. Enjoy.

Edit - it also makes Ruckus now make much more sense - not only does it bring earnings and growth - it also dovetails into the post 2018 broadband convergence across suppliers and technologies which will blur the differences between delivery be that mobile or fixed or wireless and across multiple suppliers - this is where Arris understand they need to be - now bring on the next acquisition!

Edit - credit to mbhesms for identifying same re full duplex docsis 3.1 here 11 Oct. Great minds ... !

[freddie01] 07/11/2017 08:31

Thanks clocktower and pip. :)




New Hampshire

photo via susan



The Highlands, Scotland

photo via kristie




Bradford on Avon, England

photo via francoise



Verrès Castle, Italy

photo via paula











Tangalooma Wrecks Morten Islands, Austuralia
By @swaller4

[pip_uk] 06/11/2017 10:52

Completely agree never miss Freddie`s pictures.

[clocktower] 06/11/2017 08:47

More outstanding images. :-)