Subsea cables provide a link for 99% of international networking and communications around the world. Over the past year, tech giants such as Google, Facebook, and Microsoft have announced plans to build new subsea cables in the upcoming year. Google alone will be...
by Sarah Pereau | 12 Mar 2018 Bristol, United Kingdom won the Smart City Award at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, in February 2018. Bristol has been leading smart city development in the United Kingdom since 2016. This year, the city’s efforts in smart...
by Sarah Pereau | 02 Mar 2018 Esri, a leading geographic information system and spatial analytics company, recently announced its acquisition of ClearTerra. ClearTerra is a geospatial and “activity-based intelligence” company that has already been partners with Esri...
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...
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...
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 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...
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:...
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...
