7 Top Trends for 2025 in Telecommunications and Tech
Mapping the 2018 Winter Olympics Using GIS
by Sarah Pereau | 20 Feb 2018 Mapping and spatial analytics firm, Esri, has created stories mapping the 2018 Winter Olympics using data in a geographic information system (GIS). According to Esri, a geographic information system is a platform used to gather, map, and...
SpaceX Successfully Launches First Pair of Starlink Satellites
by Sarah Pereau | 15 Feb 2018 (updated 22 Feb 2018) SpaceX successfully launched their first pair of demo Starlink satellites on February 22, 2018, another historic milestone since the company was founded in 2002. The two broadband satellites, named Tintin-A and...
Orange Begins 3 New 5G Trials Across Europe
by Sarah Pereau | 13 Feb 2018 Orange, a multinational French telecommunications company, recently announced they are conducting three new 5G trials across Europe. In France, Orange has partnered with Ericsson to begin testing “end to end” 5G in Lille and Douai. Orange...
AT&T Leads with Most Commercial Fiber-Lit Buildings
AT&T continues to lead the way with the highest number of on-net fiber-lit commercial buildings in the United States. Last week, AT&T announced that it recently reached 400,000 on-net fiber-lit commercial buildings, which covers approximately 1.8 million...
Amazon Go Brings Machine Learning to Grocery Shopping
by Brittany Leonard | 23 Jan 2018 Amazon, the revolutionary giant who tends to always impress the public with its latest innovations, announced the public opening of its newest creation, Amazon Go. Amazon Go is a brick and mortar convenience store with one caveat:...
Five Google Subsea Cables to be Completed in 2019
by Sarah Pereau | 18 Jan 2018 Google is committed to “connecting the world” and will be expanding their existing network to reach new regions across the globe with five new Google subsea cables that will be completed and operational in 2019. Google currently has the...
AT&T to Launch Mobile 5G to Consumers in Late 2018
by Sarah Pereau | 16 Jan 2018 AT&T announced plans to launch mobile 5G to consumers in a dozen markets in late 2018. AT&T completed fixed wireless and mobile 5G trials in several markets during 2016 and 2017. AT&T will be the first carrier in the US to...
Cisco, Hyundai to Launch Hyperconnected Cars in 2019
Cisco and Hyundai announced several days ago at CES 2018, Hyundai’s higher-end 2019 vehicles will be “hyperconnected” cars using software-defined networking (SDN). Cisco and Hyundai's partnership began in 2016, aimed at bringing another solution to smart vehicle...
Zayo Debuts SD-WAN Enterprise Solution
Zayo Group recently debuted its software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) as part of its enterprise services and solutions. Zayo will offer SD-WAN as part of its fiber-based enterprise solutions aimed at delivering efficiency and flexibility in network...