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Fiber cuts not as disruptive on California's central coast

19 April 2013 by Steve Blum
broadband, casf, cpuc, cruzio, public policy, regional consortia, sunesys, ucsc

Lightning fast and always lands on its feet. The cat too.

Four years ago, someone chopped into an AT&T fiber optic cable south of San Jose in California. Big chunks of Santa Cruz, San Benito and Santa Clara Counties fell off the Internet for the better part of a day. Mobile and landline phone service was disrupted.

Earlier this week, a similar cut was made in more or less the same place. The same thing happened to a lot of people.… More

CPUC's second field test building consistent picture of mobile broadband performance

6 March 2013 by Steve Blum
broadband, ccbc, cpuc, mobile, ucsc

Spring up, Fall back.

More mobile broadband performance measurements are available and accessible to Californians, thanks to field testing done by the California Public Utilities Commission and mapping and analysis done by Jim Warner at U.C. Santa Cruz.

Warner, who is a network engineer for the University and chair of the Central Coast Broadband Consortium’s technical expert group, took the data collected in the CPUC’s first and second rounds of mobile data field testing and fed it into Google maps.… More