Bytemarks

The final task force meeting for 2007 was held on Thursday, Dec. 13, 2007. Brent Legg from Connected Nation was invited to do a presentation on the work they did to map and summarize the broadband connectivity in states like Kentucky and Tennessee. Brett presented an overview of their services in a presentation to the [...]

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I saw Ryan with his new Vudu unit driving down Bishop St. He’s blogging about the experience hooking it up and viewing the movie selections on his blog: The Hawaii Blog. He also posted a bunch of out of the box photos. I am curious to see/hear if this stuffs any good. If it is, [...]

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Here is the video from last week’s Broadband Task Force meeting. It was a good overview of the current state of the respective working groups. The wifi connection at the Capitol is still problematic and the aggregate speed of the connection dipped a couple of times forcing the Ustream feed to restart. Here are the [...]

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A couple days late but here is the latest recording of the Hawaii Broadband Task Force meeting last week Wednesday. The meeting, shorter than usual, consisted of the preliminary reports from the various working groups. The working groups consist of the following topic: Why Broadand Matters: Chair: Sen. Carol FukunagaData Collection: Chair: Joel MatsunagaExpectations at [...]

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It is time for a non-tech back to the land weekend. I am heading off to Kaho`olawe for the Makahiki opening. The Makahiki ceremony is the ushering in of the rainy season and a time for regreening and revegetation. It is also a time for reflection of the year past and to be thankful for [...]

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Here is the next installment of the Hawai`i Broadband Task Force meeting. As it turns out there are actually 5 segments. While I was streaming the meeting, I noticed the broadcast stopping and restarting. I later found out that the wifi connection at the State Capitol is very slow. I was getting somewhere between 30-50Kbps [...]

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During this past legislative session Act 2 was established to create a Broadband Task Force to do the following: 1. Remove barriers to broadband access, including gaining wider access to rights of way;2. Identify opportunities for increased broadband deployment and adoption, including very high speed broadband services, and;3. Enable the creation and deployment of new [...]

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There’s no lack of drama on this issue. Hawaiian Telcom’s Good Government Club sponsored this panel discussion on the fate of the Super Ferry. Invited to speak were Jeff Mikulina, Sierra Club; Alex McGeHee, Enterprise Honolulu; Rep. Roy Takumi, Hawaii State Legislature. A representative from the Super Ferry was invited but declined to attend. The [...]

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Tim Bajarin wrote this recent article in PC Magazine about Expanding the U.S. Broadband Infrastructure. Since Tim has family roots in Hawaii, the article takes a uniquely Hawaii-based perspective. It basically talks about how we in Hawaii went the typical route of dial-up then to broadband DSL and cable and how the trans-Pacific fiber optic [...]

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This is what I have been slaving away at for the majority of August. We just setup some brand new infrastructure from last year that is capable of scaling to thousands of users. We encode video direct from K5, our local television partner and send it off to our streaming vendor for multicasting over the [...]

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