Since Google Fiber launched in Kansas City, Kansas in March 2011, cities across the country have tried to lure in the Internet giant. By offering blazing fast Internet connectivity, it leaves customers throughout the U.S. craving the one-gigabit speeds. This past...
Vertical Systems Group, a Massachusetts-based company committed to providing in-depth analysis and statistics on business data network services, recently released its findings showing that 3 percent more businesses in the United States have a fiber-optic network...
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...
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...
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...
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...