Maximizing 5G Energy Efficiency: Challenges, Solutions, and AI’s Role
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...
Federal Aid Repairs Fiber Optic Cables From Sandy
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...
Arizona State Utilizes GeoTel Data for Telecom & Power Grid Study
In modern-day America, the backbone to this country is the interconnected electric power grid and communications network. Yet, when there is an outage on one, it often leads to extensive failures throughout the other. To keep the nation operating, it is vital for...
Fiber Transmissions Now Capable of Terabits
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...
Maine to Build Fiber? or Wait for Demand
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...
Restoring Privacy through Fiber Optics
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...
GIS Assists Designing & Expanding Fiber Networks
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....
Alabama’s First Fiber Network Smart Grid System
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...
Fiber Optics Part of Hurricane Sandy Recovery
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...