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	<title>&#45; CircleID</title>
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	<description>Postings from  on CircleID</description>
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	<dc:date>2026-04-30T19:14:00+00:00</dc:date>

	
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		<title> The Magical Ampersand: Hope Is Not an Integration Plan (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20180226_the_magical_ampersand_hope_is_not_an_integration_plan</link>
		<description><![CDATA[In a software-defined and virtualised world, who will integrate the complex dynamic systems, and take responsibility for the result? It is unclear if telcos have the skills, but someone else likely does... The included image caught my eye whilst I was reviewing presentations from last October's Metro Ethernet Forum gathering in Florida on behalf of a consulting client. At first glance, it's just a marketing pseudo-Venn diagram peppered with telco tech buzzword bingo. But... <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20180226_the_magical_ampersand_hope_is_not_an_integration_plan">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-04-30T12:14:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> Who Will Crack Cloud Application Access SLAs? (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The broadband industry doesn't have an agreed-upon unit of supply and demand that meaningfully "adds up". This is rather odd for a service that aspires to be a utility. It is also a barrier to a much-needed transformation from "bit pipes" to "digital supply chain management". The chart here ought to be in every basic undergraduate textbook on packet networking and distributed computing. That it is absent says much about our technical maturity level as an industry. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20180214_who_will_crack_cloud_application_access_slas">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-04-30T12:14:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> Why 5G Is in Trouble (and How to Fix It) (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20171031_why_5g_is_in_trouble_and_how_to_fix_it</link>
		<description><![CDATA[I have a somewhat unconventional view of 5G. I just happen to believe it is the right one. It is trapped inside a category error about the nature of packet networking, and this means it is in trouble. As context, we are seeing the present broadband Internet access model maturing and begin to reach its peak. 5G eagerly anticipates the next wave of applications. As such, 5G is attempting to both extend and transcend the present "undifferentiated data sludge" model of mobile broadband. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20171031_why_5g_is_in_trouble_and_how_to_fix_it">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-04-30T12:14:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> The Great Inevitable: From Broadband Internet to Cloud Application Access (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20171021_great_inevitable_broadband_internet_to_cloud_application_access</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Some inevitable changes are hard to see in prospect, yet are 'obvious' in retrospect. The next communications revolution is 'made for cloud' access. A colleague pointed me to a Forbes article "For Today's Telecoms Companies, Customer Experience Is Just As Important As Download Speeds". It was written by Huawei's global president of assurance and managed services. Well, I told you so! <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20171021_great_inevitable_broadband_internet_to_cloud_application_access">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-04-30T12:14:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> Software Has Already Eaten Telecoms (It Just Has Indigestion) (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20171006_software_has_already_eaten_telecoms_it_just_has_indigestion</link>
		<description><![CDATA[The unconscious and near-universal belief is that packet networks are a telecoms service, and one that constructs an 'additive' resource called 'bandwidth'. This is demonstrably technically false. They deliver distributed computing services, as they calculate how to divide up an underlying telecoms transmission resource. The ubiquitous error is a failure to recognise that the hardware platform has already been devoured by the software industry. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20171006_software_has_already_eaten_telecoms_it_just_has_indigestion">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-04-30T12:14:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> The Madness of Broadband Speed Tests (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20170919_the_madness_of_broadband_speed_tests</link>
		<description><![CDATA[The broadband industry has falsely sold its customers on "speed", so unsurprisingly "speed tests" have become an insane and destructive benchmark... marketing departments at ISPs refuse to define what experience that actually intends to deliver (and what is unreasonable to expect), the network engineers are left with a single and simple marketing requirement: "make it better than it was". <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20170919_the_madness_of_broadband_speed_tests">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-04-30T12:14:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> The One Reason Net Neutrality Can't Be Implemented (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20170908_the_one_reason_net_neutality_cant_be_implemented</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Suppose for a moment that you are the victim of a wicked ISP that engages in disallowed "throttling" under a "neutral" regime for Internet access. You like to access streaming media from a particular "over the top" service provider. By coincidence, the performance of your favoured application drops at the same time your ISP launches a rival content service of its own. You then complain to the regulator, who investigates... It seems like an open-and-shut case of "throttling" resulting in a disallowed "neutrality violation". Or is it? <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20170908_the_one_reason_net_neutality_cant_be_implemented">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-04-30T12:14:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> Is the Passion Over Net Neutrality Misguided? A New Paper Offers a Fresh Technical Approach (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20170627_is_the_passion_over_net_neutrality_misguided</link>
		<description><![CDATA["Net neutrality" is implicitly framed as a debate over how to deliver an equitable ration of quality to each broadband user and application. This is the wrong debate to have, since it is both technically impossible and economically unfair. We should instead be discussing how to create a transparent market for quality that is both achievable and fair. In this paper I propose an alternative approach that (potentially) meets the needs of both consumer advocates and free market proponents. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20170627_is_the_passion_over_net_neutrality_misguided">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-04-30T12:14:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> Three Reasons Why Broadband Is So Unreliable (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20170621_three_reasons_why_broadband_is_so_unreliable</link>
		<description><![CDATA[We all take the predictability and reliability of other utilities for granted. So why is broadband such a frustrating exception? Why do our Skype calls fail mid-way? What makes Netflix buffer like crazy? How come our gaming sessions are so laggy? Imagine if the design of your electrical supply was optimised to apply the biggest possible voltage and current to anything that was plugged in. That would clearly be ridiculous! <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20170621_three_reasons_why_broadband_is_so_unreliable">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-04-30T12:14:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> Why Don't We Have Peak and Off-Peak Pricing for Broadband? (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20170508_why_dont_we_have_peak_and_off_peak_pricing_for_broadband</link>
		<description><![CDATA[I saw a poster on the London Underground yesterday, and as is often the case it got me thinking about the parallels with telecoms. The poster explains the peak and off-peak fare structure for tube travel. The purpose of this pricing system is to manage the relationship between supply and demand in a system that is capacity constrained. Over short and medium timescales the supply is essentially fixed, and demand can oversaturate that supply. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20170508_why_dont_we_have_peak_and_off_peak_pricing_for_broadband">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-04-30T12:14:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> The IETF's Job Is Complete - Should It Now Scale Up, Down or Out? (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20170331_ietf_job_is_complete_should_it_now_scale_up_down_or_out</link>
		<description><![CDATA[My assertion is that the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is an institution whose remit is coming to a natural end. This is the result of spectacular success, not failure. However, continuing along the present path risks turning that success into a serious act of wrongdoing. This will leave a social and political legacy that will tarnish the collaborative technical achievements that have been accumulated thus far. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20170331_ietf_job_is_complete_should_it_now_scale_up_down_or_out">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-04-30T12:14:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> The Future of Networking (In One Slide) (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20170323_the_future_of_networking_in_one_slide</link>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently ran a workshop in Asia and to guide attendees through the content; I put together an overview slide which you might also find of interest and use. It is a description of the quality attenuation framework, originally developed and defined by Predictable Network Solutions Ltd, and documented and extended by myself and colleagues at Just Right Networks Ltd. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20170323_the_future_of_networking_in_one_slide">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-04-30T12:14:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> Let's Face Facts: We Need a New Industrial Internet (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20170214_lets_face_facts_we_need_a_new_industrial_internet</link>
		<description><![CDATA[The Internet is a great success and an abject failure. We need a new and better one. Let me explain why. We are about to enter an era when online services are about to become embedded into pretty much every activity in life. We will become extremely dependent on the safe and secure functioning of the underlying infrastructure. Whole new industries are waiting to be born as intelligent machines, widespread robotics, and miniaturized sensors are everywhere. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20170214_lets_face_facts_we_need_a_new_industrial_internet">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-04-30T12:14:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> If Slate Comes in Standard Sizes, Why Not Broadband? (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20170112_if_slate_comes_in_standard_sizes_why_not_broadband</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week I was at the National Slate Museum in Wales watching slate being split apart. On the wall were sample pieces of all the standard sizes. These have cute names like "princess". For each size, there were three standard qualities: the thinnest are the highest quality (at 5mm in thickness), and the thickest have the lowest quality (those of 13mm or more). Obviously, a lighter slate costs less to transport and lets you roof a wider span and with less supporting wood, hence is worth more. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20170112_if_slate_comes_in_standard_sizes_why_not_broadband">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-04-30T12:14:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> Where is the Standard 'Socket' for Broadband? (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20161207_where_is_the_standard_socket_for_broadband</link>
		<description><![CDATA[When you plug into a broadband socket, what you are accessing is a distributed computing service that supplies information exchange. What is the service description and interface definition? For inspiration, we can look at the UK power plug. One of the great unsung fit-for-purpose innovations in British society is the BS1363 13 ampere power plug and socket. This is superior to other plugs by virtue of its solid construction and safe design. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20161207_where_is_the_standard_socket_for_broadband">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-04-30T12:14:00-07:00</dc:date>
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