Caron Carlson

BellSouth Corp. and Time Warner Telecom Inc. went to the government last week with a joint proposal to resolve a long-standing industry dispute over access to the local telephone network. The compromise, if approved, would further differentiate the tele- communications services—and possibly the prices—offered to businesses and residential consumers. The proposal responds to an ongoing […]

The Bell Labs component of Lucent Technologies Inc. has unveiled research in progress focusing on ways to recover wasted bandwidth, help service providers reduce operating expenses and, in turn, reduce prices for users. “If theres wasted capacity, service providers are running a more costly network than they need to run,” Jeffrey Jaffe, president of Research […]

Collier County, which is tucked in the southwest tip of hurricane-prone Florida, reaches deep into the Internet for its taxpaying customers: culling weather data to prepare for the frequent storms, Googling for tech support, even comparison-shopping for the best deal as county officials buy fleets of cars. But those efforts could become cost-prohibitive if network […]

The House Committee on Energy and Commerce rejected a bid April 26 to include strong network neutrality protections in a telecommunications reform bill that is slated for a vote in the House in May. The committee approved the Communications Opportunity, Promotion, and Enhancement Act of 2006, which focuses mostly on requirements that telephone companies will […]

To help ISPs reduce the cost of dealing with customers whose computers become infected with malware, Simplicita unveiled software that automatically detects and quarantines infected computers. According to Frank Bergen, CEO of Simplicita, 180,000 computers are infected with malware daily, and ISPs are addressing only a small number of them. “The customer help desks of […]

Under a department of Defense policy in place for about five years, personnel have been required to use smart cards and public-key infrastructure credentials to access the Pentagons network. Now that the Joint Task Force for Global Network Operations backed up the policy in January, they really have to do it. Today, 3.1 million DOD […]

When the Federal Aviation Administration established the Office of Aviation Safety, it brought together five separate IT shops. At the same time the office confronted the integration of the disparate systems, it faced a growing list of requirements from the U.S. Office of Management and Budget to apply enterprise architecture as a means of ensuring […]

Under a Department of Defense policy that has been in place for about five years, personnel are required to use smart cards and public-key infrastructure credentials to access the Pentagons network. Now that the policy was recently backed up by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, they really have to do it. Today, 3.1 million DOD […]

Lawmakers squared off on network neutrality April 5, coming to sharp disagreement over whether the government should take steps to prevent telephone companies from establishing a two-tiered Internet in which large content providers will pay extra for higher-speed delivery. In a mostly partisan vote, Democrats on the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet lost […]

On the first day of the Freedom2Connect conference outside Washington on April 3, the medium truly was the message. The message: It is vital to American democracy that users retain the freedom to connect to the Internet, which must remain unfettered by any discriminatory policies imposed by the large telephone or cable companies in charge […]