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George Ou

George Ou was a network engineer who built and designed wired network, wireless network, Internet, storage, security, and server infrastructure for various fortune 100 companies. He is also a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP #109250). He was Technical Director and Editor at Large at ZDNet.com and wrote one of their most popular blogs “Real World IT.” In 2008, he became a Senior Analyst at ITIF.org, and he currently writes for High Tech Forum

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Farber and Faulhaber on the “Dead hand of regulation”

NEWS By GEORGE OU16 YEARS AGO

Inter-networking pioneer David J. Farber and professor Gerald R. Faulhaber have articulated one of the most important points in the Net Neutrality debate by pointing out the dangers of the “Dead hand of regulation”. Customer needs take second place; regulatory “rent-seeking” becomes the …

OpenBSD developer refutes accusations of backdoors

NEWS By GEORGE OU16 YEARS AGO

OpenBSD developer “Jason L. Wright” has refuted rumors propagated by OpenBSD founder Theo de Raadt that he had somehow inserted backdoors into the open source operating system on behalf of the FBI.  De Raadt forwarded a private email from Gregory Perry, CEO …

Division of labor between broadband and CDN

NEWS By GEORGE OU16 YEARS AGO

n the recent peering dispute between Level 3 Communications’ Content Distribution Network (CDN) business and broadband provider Comcast (see video), Level 3 argues that it should not have to pay Comcast anything for an additional 300,000 Mbps of private peering capacity because Level …

Shouldn’t Netflix get free USPS mail delivery?

NEWS By GEORGE OU16 YEARS AGO

With less than 10% of the US population subscribing to Netflix DVD rental service, Netflix already pays more than $700 million a year to the US Postal service for the postage for the DVDs they send which is a staggering 28% of …

Many analysts wrong on Comcast versus Level 3

NEWS By GEORGE OU16 YEARS AGO

There were quite a number of stories that inaccurately reported on the Comcast versus Level 3 peering dispute.  Those stories inaccurately reported that Comcast was trying to charge an additional toll on the entire Internet (video in particular).  The mistakes in the …

Comcast confirms my observations on peering dispute

NEWS By GEORGE OU16 YEARS AGO

In my video on the peering dispute between Level 3 Communications and Comcast, I made a number of key assertions that were deduced from FCC testimony and PR statements from both companies.  Public companies cannot afford to make false statements that are publicly documented …

Netflix will grow, not kill the Internet

NEWS By GEORGE OU16 YEARS AGO

Bloomberg ponders the question of “will Netflix kill the Internet” which cites some interesting data, but I think it has a misguided view of the effect of Netflix on the Internet.  I don’t believe Netflix will *kill* the Internet because the evidence …

Level 3 outbid Akamai on Netflix by reselling stolen bandwidth

NEWS By GEORGE OU16 YEARS AGO

Level 3 communications raised a lot of eyebrows earlier this month when it outbid rival Content Delivery Network (CDN) provider Akamai to deliver Netflix content to large parts of the United States.  The announcement was a huge win for Level 3′s CDN …

Another Net Neutrality ‘violation’ debunked

NEWS By GEORGE OU16 YEARS AGO

In yet another case of a made-up conspiracy like the Craigslist blocking incident to drum up support for Internet regulation, OpenDNS founder David Ulevitch is misleading the public about Verizon Wireless supposedly blocking OpenDNS servers.  Ulevitch claims that Verizon Wireless is blocking …

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