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Fiber Optic Showdown
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...
The Fiber Gap is Shrinking, Slowly
Vertical Systems Group, a Massachusetts-based company committed to providing in-depth analysis and statistics on business data network services, recently released its findings...
Telecom Top Factor in Real Estate Investments
In early April, the Urban Land Institute and EY released its annual report: Infrastructure 2014: Shaping the Competitive City. The report showed that telecommunications...
Metro Fiber Seeing Boosts Up to 100G
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...
What Lies Beneath
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,...
Building Smarter Cities Improves Citizens’ Lives
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...
MITCON Fiber Project
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...
Professor Awarded Fiber Optics Grant
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...
Senator Aims to Improve Broadband
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...
