Tag: National Broadband Plan
SSN's top 10 stories of 2010
December 22, 2010Daniel Gelinas
YARMOUTH, Maine—As 2010 draws to a close the editors at Security Systems News take a look back and see what the most read stories of the year were. What was making the news? What were you most interested in knowing?
Below is a non-sequential, categorized rundown of the top 10 most read stories on our site from Jan. 1 to Dec. 11, followed by a linked top 10 list.
The top category for 2010 was “For sale/SOLD!” Acquisition stories had a large showing in 2010 with a full half of the...
POTS sunset on the horizon?
January 7, 2010Daniel Gelinas
WASHINGTON--Plain-old telephone service--the mainspring of traditional burg and fire alarm signal transmission--could be coming to a mandatory end. The Federal Communications Commission on Dec. 1 issued a public notice seeking comment on a National Broadband Plan that could include a mandatory switch from a public switched telephone network to IP, similar to the FCC-enforced switch from analog to digital broadcast television that occurred in early 2009.
For an exclusive look at how IP technology...