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While in Germany the local incumbent continues dragging its feet it comes to deploying Fiber To The Home (FTTH), other countries are much more advanced. Take France for example. Or Bangalore in India… Here are some pictures and thoughts.

Back in the early 1980s, telecommunication was a state monopoly in pretty much all countries all over the world. Privatization in the 1990's and the resulting competition gave an incredible boost to the industry. Today we enjoy incredibly fast networks in many places, both fixed and wireless, and there is no sign that the increase … Continue reading Digging Is The Expensive Part – Not The Fiber

Fiber connectivity is moving closer and closer to people's homes. Some, like me in Paris, are fortunate enough to get a fiber line right into the apartment and enjoy speeds of well beyond 250 Mbit/s in downlink and 50 Mbit/s in uplink. That's something the good old telephone line can't do today by a wide … Continue reading G.Fast – A Technology To Prevent A Fiber Monopoly?

While I’ve had a 1 Gbit/s Fiber connection at home in Paris since 2014 with speeds well beyond 250 Mbit/s downlink and 50 Mbit/s uplink, most people in Germany can still only dream of fiber connectivity. So while I consider myself fortunate with fiber in Paris and at least 50 Mbit/s down – 10 Mbit/s … Continue reading 1 GBit/s At Home Was Yesterday! 10 Gbit/s Is The New Black!

For another post to be published soon, I had set-up a Nextcloud instance to play around with Collabora Online. Before tearing down the setup again, I decided to re-use it for another experiment: How does attaching and using ‘external’ storage to Nextcloud work!?

It’s the time of the year again to spend a few minutes looking back to the major things in tech that happened for me this year and ended up on this blog. So without further ado, let’s jump right in and have a look at the things that moved me in 2025.

In the first part of this series, I’ve given you an overview of the services I host on my own servers to be independent of hyperscalers and to keep my data private. The number of services is stunning so there must be a lot of hardware standing around. Well, not quite so, let’s have a … Continue reading Raising the Shields – 12 Years Later – Part 2 – Hardware

In the previous post, I’ve had a look at how a high speed data transmission is throttled to 500 Mbps between two data centers in different countries. In this post, I’ll have a look how the TCP sequence- and transmission window graphs look like for the same throttling scenario when I downloaded data from my … Continue reading 500 Mbps Bandwidth Throttling – Part 2

I’m on vacation at the moment and I’ve been thinking a bit about how network technology has evolved over the past few years and where we are headed. At least for the moment, it seems to be that we have reached an access network tech plateau, at least as far as infrastructure is concerned. Let … Continue reading An Access Network Plateau Reached?