Fiber to Data Centers: Enhancing Data Center Performance
Telecom Top Factor in Real Estate Investments
In early April, the Urban Land Institute and EY released its annual report: Infrastructure 2014: Shaping the Competitive City. The report showed that telecommunications infrastructure is one of the top factors influencing real estate decisions around the world. Urban...
Metro Fiber Seeing Boosts Up to 100G
When it comes to content, big data is driving all the traffic. More than 60 percent of Internet traffic growth comes from big data in metro networks, according to a Cisco report For service providers, this steady growth places extra demands on the system. While fiber...
What Lies Beneath
While 99 percent of all international communication flows through submarine cables, few people can visualize how this unique underworld appears. Currently, there are 263 cables, with 22 soon to be added, connecting New York, Singapore, Auckland, Cape Town, Paris and...
Building Smarter Cities Improves Citizens’ Lives
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...
MITCON Fiber Project
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...
Professor Awarded Fiber Optics Grant
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...
Senator Aims to Improve Broadband
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...
U.S. in Terms of Broadband
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...
Mapping Buried Assets Crucial in Mining
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...