Lately, telcos have been waiting in anticipation to see if Sprint will move ahead with a deal to fully acquire Clearwire, a wireless high-speed Internet Service Provider, which they owned the majority share (51%). Last week, Sprint Nextel Corp. reached a deal to acquire the remaining portion of Clearwire Corp.
Often dubbed the “Father of Fiber Optics,” Charles K. Kao led the development and use of fiber optics in telecommunications in 1965 when he showed how the high-loss of existing fiber optics came from impurities in the glass, rather than from an underlying problem in the technology itself.
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.
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.
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.
Earlier this month, AT&T unveiled its plans to expand its telecommunications network. As stated in their press release, AT&T plans to “significantly expand and enhance its wireless and wireline IP broadband networks” in order to accommodate the growing customer demand for high-speed networks.
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.
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.
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.