JANET's innovative M2M 3G wireless service with Eduroam global roaming

[Many people may have read the excellent OECD report on machine to machine (M2M) communications which is expected to be the next big thing in terms of the Internet of Things.

NORDUnet's brilliant Internet peering strategy

[NORDUnet, the R&E network connecting the Nordic countries has recently undertaken a brilliant Internet peering strategy that will have global significant ramifications for supporting research and education around the world.

Data Intensive Science in a Carbon Constrained World with Software Defined Networks

[I had the honor of being invited to give the keynote at the recent Internet 2 Joint Techs workshop.  I am very excited to see the new direction of Joint Techs to spend one day focusing on a single topic – as an experimental “Call for Action.”

Why Software Defined Networks and WiFi 2.0 are critical to future of Internet

[Here are two excellent articles on Software Defined Networks (SDN) and WiFi 2.0.

Verizon and Rogers skirt rules on network neutrality versus Free's innovative network

[From will they ever learn department,  we are once again seeing attempts by incumbent carriers to skirt rules around network neutrality.

Must read: The year ahead for IT in Higher Ed

[Here is an excellent article by my good friend Lev Gonick on future trends for IT in Higher Ed.

The advantage of commercial clouds versus HPC for scientific research

[The Department of Energy (DoE) recently came out with an excellent report, called the Magellan report, on the advantages and disadvantages of using commercial clouds versus in house High Performance Computers for leading edge scientific research.

OECD BEREC workshop on Internet peering - how R&E networks can help community broadband

[Here is a great set of slides put together by Rudolf van der Berg of the OECD on IP interconnection.

Revolutionary developments in on-line education - the role of R&E networks

[In the past couple of days there was a number of interesting announcements in the world of on-line education.

My top 10 predictions for Internet and R&E networks for 2012

[Well folks its that time of year again when self professed pundits make their various forecasts and projections on technology trends on the coming year.

How clouds are transforming education, research and libraries

[I recently the great pleasure of visiting JISC and JANET in the UK and was very impressed on their understanding of the potential of commercial clouds to radically transform education, research and libraries.

Internet bigger than agriculture or energy sectors - importance of R&E networks

[Several months ago McKinsey did a very interesting study on the economic value of the Internet.

Open Lightpath Exchanges, The Data Deluge, Software Defined R&E Networks

[Several readers of this blog have pointed to the article in last week’s NYTimes on the genomics data deluge.

Named Data Networking - how LTE networks will soon be extension of enterprise WiFi

[It amazes me how still many people think that the Internet network architecture is a variant of the telephone system.

OECD report: Internet Traffic Exchange Points

[Here is an excellent report on IXPs recently released by the OECD.