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Tom Reid: Common-Sense Solutions to Closing the Digital Divide in Rural America

Broadband Breakfast

The decrepit rural telecommunications infrastructure needs to be fully replaced, not patched. We need networks designed to meet 30+ years of bandwidth growth as illustrated in the timeline below. They are struggling to meet the bandwidth needs of 2020, let alone 2055. So why accept similarly lax standards for rural broadband?

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Telxius & Ciena Set Transatlantic Record with 1.3Tbps Speed

VoIP Review

The telecommunications industry is again breaking barriers with a remarkable achievement by Telxius and Ciena. This milestone was achieved using Telxius’ Marea submarine cable , which spans 6,600 kilometers between Virginia Beach, USA, and Bilbao, Spain. terabits per second across the Atlantic.

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Building Better Broadband: Why LEO Satellites and Hybrid Solutions Work Best Together

Broadband Breakfast

High costs, bandwidth congestion, and uneven performance may soon be a thing of the past. The connectivity challenge in rural areas According to the International Telecommunication Union, barely 19% of residents in underdeveloped regions have internet access, compared with 87% in more advanced economies.

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Rohit Rawool: Why Hardware Matters in a Software-Driven World

Broadband Breakfast

Yet, as we chase the promise of a hyper-connected future, we risk overlooking a critical component of our technological infrastructure: mechanical engineering in telecommunications hardware.  My work in the United States focuses on creating next-generation telecommunications hardware to strengthen broadband infrastructure.

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Powering the Future of Connectivity with Wavelength Services

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They were not designed for today’s bandwidth-hungry, latency-sensitive use cases like real-time financial trading, cloud-based AI, and high-definition streaming. DWDM uses multiple wavelengths of light to transmit parallel data streams across a single fibre, maximising bandwidth without the need to lay additional cables.

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Jessica Dine: So You Want BEAD to Be Tech Neutral?

Broadband Breakfast

While the capacity it provides is enough to meet the average modern household’s daily needs, the capacity fiber provides is more likely to be sufficient in the future as consumer bandwidth needs increase. While LEO systems are more reliable than cable connections, fiber  outperforms them both.

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Deloitte and TM Forum : How AI could revitalize the ailing telecom industry?

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IEEE Techblog readers are well aware of the dire state of the global telecommunications industry. In particular: According to Deloitte , the global telecommunications industry is expected to have revenues of about US$1.53 And shouldn’t telcos, whose business is all about connectivity, be able to profit in some way?