A journal for networking and telecoms
Comcast has launched DOCSIS 3.0 service for small- and medium-sized businesses in the Greater Boston area, offering speeds of up to 50 Mbps.
Starting this week, Comcast will offer two new tiers of wideband service – Deluxe at 50 Mbps ($190 per month) and Premium at 22 Mbps ($100 per month) — to small and medium-sized businesses in more than 300 communities in Massachusetts and Southern New Hampshire.
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From the Technology Graveyard
You just read about All. A technology from the archive that helped get us here:
Google/Alphabet Project Loon served 2011–2021. What ultimately replaced it?
Google/Alphabet Project Loon solar-powered balloons drifting in the stratosphere (~20 km), steering by rising and falling into different wind layers, relaying LTE from ground stations to phones far below. Its job passed to Unit economics — but the problem it solved, and the ideas it proved, live on in what replaced it. The standard rests here in the archive. One of 198 technologies here that opened a door and then held it for the next.
From 25 years of the Converge Digest archive.
