Business Model Canvas #2: Infomediary company. This is a model for www.9to5ghz.com, which will be a website that provides trusted, useful information and data on all things related to wireless networking.

Business Model Canvas #1 (in class)

This is a canvas for an Telecomm/IT Services and Solutions company.

Podcast response: What is a router?

Blog post 2: response to How Stuff Works podcast, What it is a router?

This was an interesting, informative, and useful podcast. It served as a helpful refresher on how critical routers are for home, private, and public networks and obviously the internet. (after all "there would be no internet without routers" as the podcast candidly indicated). I also enjoyed their perspective on network address translation. With the emergence of IPv6, maybe one day all public and private IP addresses will be unique.

One common misconception on routers that I've experienced is that any device with any RJ-45
or ethernet port (that isn't obviously a desktop PC or laptop) gets lumped into the server or router category. While these two devices are both critical pieces of information technology infrastructure, they are vastly different from each other as well as from network switches, wireless access points, or cable modems.

This leads me to wonder about the following chicken and egg type question.....

• what is more critical for internet infrastructure--servers or routers?

I welcome your feedback and perspectives. By the way, I won't be surprised if the system admins vote for servers and the network guys/gals vote for routers. :)

 Discuss.

Let us blog.

Hello MIST 7500 colleagues and random readers, if any.  GO DAWGS!

Welcome to my first crack at blogging. I apologize in advance for subjecting you all to the inner caverns of my technical and literary musings. This should be an interesting experience. I'll be perfectly honest that I've also never followed any bloggers, and most of my exposure to blogging (albeit very minimal) has been my negative reaction to a few annoying sports and/or political bloggers. That said, I come in peace with an open mind and will do my best to keep it interesting yet academic (excuse the oxymoron).

No really, I'm excited about this blogging exercise in that I'll have the opportunity to:

• discuss and reflect on on how different internet and information technologies affect how companies/educational institutions/governments do business
• provide a platform that exposes the 'good, bad, and the ugly' of specific technology implementations and project management methods based on personal/professional experiences 
• oh yeah, this meets my course requirements as well.

One other quirk of this blog is to reflect on the following question throughout the semester as I think it is particularly interesting for IT professionals (IT in its broadest sense...including internet technology, software development, project management, networking, internet technology, audio/visual, datacom, and the list goes on).

What is better?....depth in one or two technical areas or breadth in many areas?...Thoughts?

Stay classy,

Davis