The smart cities movement has increased significantly in popularity over the past year. Initially, studies suggested smart growth was limited to transportation, energy and state resources, but recently Research and Markets broadened the scope of smart cities to...
In 1999, Midland, Michigan launched MITCON, a project designed to rebuild the Michigan Molecular Institutes IT platform. Since then, it has blossomed into an organization that provides technical support and service to more than 40 local non-profits, mainly human...
The Air Force’s Defense University Research Equipment Program (DURIP) awarded Axel Schülzgen, a professor in the College of Optics and Photonics at the University of Central Florida, an $870,000 grant to create fiber optic glass preforms, the tubular-shaped pieces of...
U.S. Nebraska senator Deb Fischer is on a mission to improve broadband connectivity throughout her state. In her weekly news column, Fischer declared that too many Nebraskans experience communication challenges. Both rural and urban Nebraskans suffer from aging and...
Twenty countries are members of the Convention on the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), mainly northern American and European states.In a study released by the OECD, the United States has the largest number of broadband subscribers, yet it...
Managing and mapping buried assets, such as communication and electrical lines, poses a unique challenge to companies worldwide. At CITIC Pacific Mining, they decided to use GIS technology to map all buried cables, lines and pipes at their Sino Iron project, the...
Superstorm Sandy struck the east coast more than a year ago, but many companies are still working to replace and repair their infrastructure. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority is North America’s largest transportation network. Its network spans 5,000 square...
While fiber optic cables already send data at rates believed to be impossible just a decade ago, things are about to get even faster. Recently Alcatel-Lucent and the British-based multinational telecommunications services company BT reached speeds of 1.4 terabits per...
Service providers and communities across the United States are always dealing with the same question: preemptively lay fiber optic cables and wait for demand or wait until customers demand the service? Compared to the rest of the country, Maine ranks 49th in Internet...