Governments and regulators are under mounting pressure to keep up with the increasingly rapid pace of technological change. Former US Federal Communications Commission chairman Kevin Martin told PTC'12 how regulators could adjust their approaches to keep up with the times and to handle particular issues like the explosion of mobile technology and the rural-urban market divide.
The debate continues to rage over how far next-generation wireless will make incursions into traditional fixed broadband territory, with participants at a PTC'12 panel highlighting areas where the two technologies will remain complementary but also where wireless is carving up fixed territory.
The global capacity industry will need to face the reality that China and India will surpass the United States as the most important sources of Internet traffic. That's the warning posed by industry analyst Michael Ruddy of Terabit Consulting at PTC'12 yesterday.
Subsea cable owners could net completely new revenue opportunities by exploring a new use for their systems, according to TE SubCom product management MD Dr. Ekaterina Golovchenko gathering scientific data from the ocean floor. And it's not just a pipe dream; TE SubCom already has the technology ready to go, and has revealed that it's working with Pacific Fibre on the opportunity to add sensors to the latter's planned new Australia-New Zealand-US route.
The nearly forgotten technology of free space optics effectively laser-enabled communication through the air without a fibre enclosure may be poised for a comeback.
The founder of a social media service currently serving some 50 million users mostly in Asia and parts of Eastern Europe says that it is not too late for operators to try to capture the social media wave.
An obscure Russian company called ZAO Polarnet Project, has put out a tender for a new subsea cable project that will transverse the Arctic between Europe and Asia.
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