The ICT Optimist

Couldn’t help laughing at this story having spent a lot of time in South Africa in the 1990′s. Seems that they had a race to see if DSL or carrier pigeon could transfer 4GB of data faster over 100km. Guess what…the pigeons won.

Great summary on this link by Stan Schroeder

Whats interesting is that broadband speed is a function of the total network design and its usage so trying to define how fast the Internet can be pretty difficult given the uncontrolled nature of complex networks. On the other hand the physics of carrier pigeon speed, distance and the reality of memory card capacity make for a much more deterministic transport method <grin>…. Maybe we can have a race between an iPhone and a cheetah next

I want to Congratulate Vish Nandlall on his appointment as CTO of Extreme Networks. Vish is one of the brightest people I have had the pleasure of working with and he will be a great addition to the Extreme team. Vish has a fantastic background in most technical areas  ranging from next generation wireless to optical to IP transport and has always impressed me with his ability to think outside of the current industry mindset. To read more of his thoughts check out Vish’s blog, the Invisible Internet.  Having made the move to California in a past life myself, I am sure he will thrive in the culture of silicon valley and the winters in California are much more appealing than the -40 degree, 10 feet of slow, second coldest capital in the world winters in Ottawa

Congratulations !