Plugged in FTTP makes or breaks today’s offices - Dave Drazen by Janet Kendall, Contributing Writer (Dave Drazen) Imagine working in an Atlanta office building on a July afternoon without air conditioning. For the next generation of the city’s workforce, the thought...
GeoTel Communications, LLC, a leading provider of telecommunications infrastructure data in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and web-based platforms, today announced that Fortune Magazine will feature GeoTel's telecom data sets and fiber optic maps in a multi-page...
Much of the nation’s fiber-optic network was laid during the 1990s and early 2000s. Demand did not materialize as rapidly as expected, which resulted in billions, possibly trillions of dollars of unused fiber-optic cable buried across America. This fiber graveyard...
GeoTel Communications, LLC a leading provider of telecommunications infrastructure data in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and web-based platforms, announces it has donated maps and telecom data to support the Chicago Architecture Foundation's upcoming exhibit,...
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...
