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U.S. in Terms of Broadband
Twenty countries are members of the Convention on the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), mainly northern American and European states.In a study...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...