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IPv6 anyone?
Updated 03-10-09 The web monitoring company Pingdom says that IPv6 traffic at the Amsterdam Internet Exchange (AMS-IX), the Internet’s biggest exchange, accounted for just 0.25 percent of total Internet traffic.
rb- Who says IPv6 isn’t coming? This study shows a 250% increase in IPv6 use from the data reported by Arbor Networks in September 2008.
Arbor Networks released a study The E
nd is Near but is IPv6? which says the adoption of IPv6 has been very slow thus far. The network security vendor produced the study along with the University of Michigan and about 100 ISPs and content companies. It suggested that IPv6 adoption is growing but currently amounts to less than one-hundredth of 1% of Internet traffic.
As has been pointed out in this blog IPv4 addresses are running out, but IPv6 is still trying to gain some traction.
Ralph Bach has been in IT long enough to know better and has blogged from his Bach Seat about IT, careers, and anything else that catches his attention since 2005. You can follow him on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter. Email the Bach Seat here.
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Tags: 2008, Arbor Networks, IPocalypse, IPV4, IPv6, Networking, University of Michigan
Gigabit Wi-Fi
Despite the fact that IEEE 802.11n 100Mbps wireless LAN standard has not been approved yet, the IEEE Very High Throughput (VHT) Study Group is about to launch a new project, gigabit Wi-Fi.
The study group is looking at gigabit Wi-Fi in two frequency bands, high-frequency 60GHz for relatively short ranges and under-6GHz for ranges similar to that of today’s WLANs in the 5GHz band, 802.11a and 11n. The IEEE proposal suggests a completion target date of 2013 for the standard. Big wireless players such as Atheros, Broadcom, Intel, Marvell, Motorola, and Nortel are reported to be active in the study group.
In a Network World article, IEEE readies launch of gigabit Wi-Fi project “The basic idea right now, and that’s subject to change, is that the ‘maximum mandatory mode’ on a single link would be [at least] 500Mbps,” says Tushar Moorti, director of systems architecture for chipmaker Broadcom‘s (AVGO) WLAN Business Unit. “But the further requirement is that [an access point] device that supports VHT would be able to sustain multiple links, so the aggregate would be over 1Gbps.”
“It’s the next-generation technology for wireless LAN, in the same sense that 11n was the follow-on to 11a/b/g,” says Broadcom’s Moorti.
According to the proposal, VHT “will allow a corporate or home user to roam from high-throughput dense cells to wider area networks in a seamless manner, while maintaining full support for the installed base security, management, diagnostics, and backbone infrastructure.” VHT will also be backward compatible with the full range of existing and emerging 802.11 standards, such as 11i for security, and 11s for mesh networking.
Ralph Bach has been in IT long enough to know better and has blogged from his Bach Seat about IT, careers, and anything else that catches his attention since 2005. You can follow him on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter. Email the Bach Seat here.
Time to Rethink Off-Shoring
McKinsey Consulting published an article, Time to Rethink Off-Shoring in the September 2008 edition of the McKinsey Quarterly that may be a silver lining in the current U.S. economic recession. McKinsey identifies three factors in the current economic conditions that may cause firms to re-evaluate off-shoring practices. The consultants believe that energy costs, wage inflation, and the weakness in the US dollar are factors that firms should evaluate as part of their off-shoring analysis.
Energy costs According to the article, CIBC World Markets estimates that in 2000, when oil prices were near $20 a barrel, the costs embedded in shipping were equal to a 3 percent tariff on imports. Today, that figure is 11 percent, representing a threefold increase in shipping costs since 2000. The article goes on to point out that increasing energy costs not only impact exports but also increases the price manufacturers pay for raw materials. As an example, McKinsey points out that it now costs about $100 to ship a ton of iron from Brazil to China-more than the cost of the mineral itself.
Wage inflation McKinsey states, that in dollar terms, annual wage inflation in China has averaged 19 percent since 2003. An average production worker paid $1,740 a year in 2003, makes $4,140 today. By contrast, wage inflation in the United States has averaged only 3 percent.
McKinsey suggests that the combination of increased shipping expenses driven by higher energy costs, wage inflation in off-shore countries, and the weak U.S. dollar has eliminated the cost benefits that many firms sought by off-shoring jobs.
Ralph Bach has been in IT long enough to know better and has blogged from his Bach Seat about IT, careers, and anything else that catches his attention since 2005. You can follow him on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter. Email the Bach Seat here.
Broadband is a Civil Right?
According to former Federal Communications Commission commissioner Michael Copps, American’s civil rights should be expanded to include broadband access. Mr. Copps stated at a July 21, 2008 speech at Carnegie Mellon University, “No matter who you are, or where you live, or how much money you make … you will need, and you are entitled to have these tools (broadband Internet) available to you, I think, as a civil right.”(download from http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-283886A1.pdf).
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Ubiquitous broadband is a good thing, perhaps even a lofty political goal and an economic driver. However, I have a hard time figuring out where to place freedom to surf. I wonder where Mr. Copps will place this new civil right, maybe it will be life, liberty, and the pursuit of broadband access (sorry Mr. Jefferson your ideas are just so 18th century).
Ralph Bach has been in IT long enough to know better and has blogged from his Bach Seat about IT, careers, and anything else that catches his attention since 2005. You can follow him on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter. Email the Bach Seat here.
Only 3% of Mobile Phones Recycled
A survey released by Finland based mobile phone maker Nokia has that one of the main reasons why so few people recycle their mobile phones. Most people simply don’t know that it is possible to recycle mobile phones. Even if they were aware that a mobile could be recycled, did not know how to go about doing this.
- Two thirds said they did not know how to recycle an unwanted mobile device
- A majority (71%) were unaware of where to recycle an unwanted mobile device.
- Globally, half of those surveyed didn’t know phones could be recycled, with awareness lowest in India at 17% and Indonesia at 29%, and highest in the UK at 80% and 66% in Finland and Sweden.
Nokia also found some other interesting factoids about our mobile phones recycling habits.
- On average consumers have owned around five phones.
- Only 3% of people recycle their mobile phones.
- Three out of every four people indicated that they don’t even think about recycling their devices
- Nearly half of the respondents were unaware that it is even possible to recycle their mobile phones.
- The majority of retired phones, 44%, are kept at homes never used again.
- One quarter of users are passing on their old phones to friends or family
- Sixteen percent of people are selling their used devices particularly in emerging markets.
- Remarkably only 4%, of retired mobile devices are being thrown into landfill.
Markus Terho, Director of Environmental Affairs, Markets, at Nokia said, “If each of the three billion people globally owning mobiles brought back just one unused device we could save 240,000 tons of raw materials and reduce greenhouse gases to the same effect as taking 4 million cars off the road.”
Up to 80% of any Nokia device is recyclable and precious materials within it can be reused to help make new products. Mr. Terho said, “Using the best recycling technology nothing is wasted. Between 65 – 80 per cent of a Nokia device can be recycled. Plastics that can’t be recycled are burnt to provide energy for the recycling process, and other materials are ground up into chips and used as construction materials or for building roads. In this way nothing has to go to landfill.”
Nokia has collection points for unwanted mobile devices in 85 countries around the world, the largest voluntary scheme in the mobile industry. People can drop off their old devices at Nokia stores and almost 5,000 Nokia Care Centers. To find their nearest take back point people can visit ecoATM.
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Ralph Bach has been in IT long enough to know better and has blogged from his Bach Seat about IT, careers and anything else that catches his attention since 2005. You can follow him at LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter. Email the Bach Seat here.