USEFUL, INTERESTING, ENTERTAINING AND GENERALLY COOL LINKS

Useful and interesting links that relate to the need for flexible cabling architecture.

The following web links are provided for your information.  Some are useful as tools for design ideas, others simply fascinating.  Please enjoy them.

The future of broadband

• On-line Video Soaring - www.reginahopper.com
  
• Excellent sprayfoam insulation video from www.sprayfoam.com
• New A/V Standard Arrives:  HDMI 1.4 - Video, Audio and Data Combined
  
• Channeling TV Show to the Web
• Comcast Cable TV is Coming to Laptops This Year
• FCC Launches Effort to Create National Broadband Plan
• Australia chooses FTTH over FTTN...100 Mbps to every home and unlimited scalability
• CISCO's John Chambers: Broadband Speeds our Economy
• 40 and 100Gbps...the Next Wave in Ethernet
• Netflix to offer "streaming only" plans in future
• Why will bandwidth consumption continue to grow wildly?  Here's a hint...
  
• Poor WiFi connection symptomatic of a larger problem...
• Congress Approves Broadband to Nowhere: WSJ
  
• By 2012 Korean Homes Will Get 1Gbps Broadband Connections
• Verizon FiOS brings video conferencing to the home
• What is the Exaflood? - video, 5 min.
• Did You Know? 2.0, Shift Happens - video, 8 min.
• Did You Know? 3.0 - video, 5 min.
• Internet Service Speed Is Fast-Track Issue for New Administration - Article
• CISCO sees acquisitions with focus on video - URL
• Legislative discussions around the future of broadband in the US - URL
  
• The Coming Exaflood - URL
  
• Fiber to the Home Council - URL
  

Interesting blogs

We all need moxie...do you have it?

Repair that iPod, iPhone or Zune

• Rapid Repair, Kalamazoo, MI...service, accessories, and parts...also instructions for DIY'ers
  

Transmission technology

• Making Optical Fiber - MCVD Process for Multimode Fiber - video, 9 min.
• Making Optical Fiber - OVD Process for Singlemode Fiber - video, 10 min.

How fast is broadband today?

• Speed Test of Verizon FiOS 100Mbps Home Connection - video, 1 min.
• Verizon FiOS 20/20 Symmetrical Demonstration - video, 2 min.
  
• Comcast CEO Demonstrates 160Mbps Wideband Cable Modem - video, 8 min.
• Verizon FiOS MDU Forum, 2007

The world we live in:

• The GreenMaven Directory - your search directory for the Green web
• Country-by-country simulation - URL
• Like Day and Night - URL
• Images from around the world - URL
• Practical ways to live more sustainably - URL
• Your personal footprint - URL
• Freecycle - changing the world one gift at a time - URL
• BuildingCTGreen.com
• AllGreen.com

Just for fun:

• On your birthday - URL
• All sorts of maps - URL
• 2 % or 98 % - URL
• iPods and MP3 players weren't always the rage - URL

Information:

• NetComm Canada

Architectural Links

• Centerbrook Architects and Planners LLP, Centerbrook, CT

Insulation Expert Links

• US Insulation Corporation, Berlin, CT (Covering CT, MA, NY)

Builders' Links

• Bogaert Construction, Essex CT

Interesting Journals

• Electronic House
• TecHome Builder
• Fine Homebuilding