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GIS Risk Management and Its 5 Benefits

GIS Risk Management and Its 5 Benefits

GIS Risk Management: The Key to Enhanced Decision-Making Natural disasters can bring unfortunate consequences for communities and habitats alike, destroying homes, telecommunications infrastructure, and resource supply chains, amidst a slew […]
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Omaha Fiber Optic Network Helps Save Lives

In a building only a mile away from Omaha’s Eppley Airfield, nearly two dozen dispatch specialists coordinate traffic patterns for 152 emergency helicopters, 17 airplanes, and 15 ambulances across the US. As a dispatch specialist for AirCom, it is your job to deliver critical communications.

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Cell Tower Dumps – Denied

In recent years, the courts have struggled to decide whether the government needs a warrant to access records about a cell phone user’s location and in September, federal courts ruled that cell phone location data is not protected under the Constitution’s Fourth Amendment. Last month, a judge in Texas began raising questions.

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How Did the Internet Hold Up to Hurricane Sandy?

With two of the Internet’s main hubs (NY/NJ and Ashburn) and some of its most trafficked routes in Hurricane Sandy’s path last month, it leaves the question – how well did the communications grid manage during the storm? Turns out, the Internet actually fared the storm very well.

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A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words… How about a Map?

The old saying that “a picture is worth a thousand words” still holds true today and is very relevant in the context of Geographic Information Systems. Without pictures, in this case – maps, geospatial data can very complicated & time-consuming to analyze. But, GIS data is now available.

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GeoTel in Crain’s Chicago Business Magazine

GeoTel was featured in a Crain’s Chicago Business article describing how Chicago’s rich history in manufacturing helped it to became one of the nation’s key hubs for fiber optic connections. This article examines Chicago on a digital layer level, utilizing GeoTel’s data mapping the concentration of telecommunication networks within and surrounding the city.

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GeoTel Featured in Belgium Museum Exhibit

GeoTel Communications, LLC’s telecommunications infrastructure maps of the Internet will be featured at the Archive Centre Mundaneum in Belgium for the museum’s Renaissance 2.0 exhibit set to be on display October 9, 2012 through January 7, 2013.

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Fortune Magazine To Feature GeoTel Data

GeoTel Communications, LLC, a leading provider of telecommunications infrastructure data in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and web-based platforms, today announces that Fortune Magazine will feature its telecommunications data and maps in a multi-page article. The article, to reach newsstands worldwide on July 9, focuses on the Internet and global fiber optic communications.

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GeoTel Interview by Mashable Magazine

GeoTel Interview by Mashable Magazine

A Journalist from Mashable Magazine interviews GeoTel’s CEO Dave Drazen and talks to him about depicting worldwide communications infrastructure. To demonstrate the trajectory of the Internet, Fortune magazine teamed up with GeoTel. The company maps fiber optic cables in geographic information systems (GIS) that connect people all over the world.

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