Just shy of a year ago, I blogged about a massive undersea cable cut that crippled connectivity across much of Egypt and India, thought to be caused by a ship’s anchor. I thought for sure this not-so-natural disaster and its devastating results on communications in this part of the world would be a wake-up call […]
In The Economist’s recent technology quarterly, one of the articles presented differing opinions on whether the world’s networks are prepared to handle the coming “exaflood” of data (an exabyte is one billion gigabytes). Currently, global Internet traffic ranges from five to eight exabytes a month. Nemertes and other research organizations are predicting the demise of […]
Barack Obama is expected to be our country’s most tech-savvy president ever, and his campaign had a strong focus on technology as a means for the U.S. to stay competitive. The tech and the telecom communities at large are both poised to see what will top Obama’s agenda after he takes office next month, and […]
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