James F. Booth

For more than 25 years, James Booth has provided consulting and legal services to telecommunications carriers and to enterprise companies that manage their own telecommunications networks. Since June of 2009 he has also served as General Counsel of Spread Networks, LLC, which is the industry leader in the construction and operation of low latency high speed networks. Before joining Spread he was General Counsel for OnFiber Communications, a competitive telecommunications provider, and was the sole attorney for Qwest Communications International in support of its construction of an 18,800 mile fiber optic network spanning the United States. Earlier he was lead counsel for U S WEST in its wireless and cable television ventures in the United States, Europe and Hong Kong.

Saturday, June 12, 2010

Why website crashes are unavoidable -- at least for now

This has been a week of crashing websites. First it was Twitter, which had "site availability issues" on and off this week. Then, on Thursday night, it was WordPress, the popular blogging platform that supports more than 10 million blogs, all of which went down for several hours because of a coding problem.
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