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...
Since Edward Snowden left the United States with four laptops containing some of the government's most highly classified secrets, no one has looked at Internet communications and data transmissions the same. The extent of the NSA’s snooping and the level of compliance...
In early December, Alabama-based 3-GIS announced a contract with Atlantic Engineering Group. The aim of this relationship is to use 3-GIS’s cloud based solution to design telecommunication networks throughout major US cities and then have AEG build out the network....
It took over five years filled with debates, false claims by competitors that coax is more reliable than fiber, and even a special election, but the Opelika City Council finally approved rates for the city’s new fiber optic system, putting it one step closer to...
When Hurricane Sandy ripped through the New York area, much of the decades-old copper wires were damaged. By Christmas, Verizon had already laid more than 5,000 miles of fiber optic cables across Manhattan to assist in the recovery efforts. Yet Fire Island, a popular...
In a 45-page analysis titled, “Telecommunications Competition: The Infrastructure-Investment Race,” Dr. Anna-Maria Kovacs examines the United States’ regulations that are forcing companies to build and maintain copper-based legacy telephone networks and the impact...