Technically Speaking

We are in the strangest of times, where such challenges invariably bring about both new ideas and some incredible creative thinking. The coronavirus (or Covid-19) pandemic has altered our mindsets toward technology, inasmuch as our relationship with it has become far more accepting and our dependency is increasing exponentially. Most of us have broken our typical routines and behaviors; we are all creatures of habit and yet, in these unprecedented times ...

There’s been a lot of recent interest in our filterless optical line system. In conversations with a wide range of communication service provider customers (CSPs), we’ve discussed what the solution offers in terms of driving new levels of capacity into access networks ...

With more than three billion smartphone users across the globe, governments have a unique opportunity to gather data to map the whereabouts of the population. This has become a particularly valuable tool in the fight to track and slow the spread of Covid-19. However, with stringent privacy laws found in many countries, the question is: Does a global pandemic supersede these laws? And if so, what happens after the crisis is over? 

Network providers are eager to push new services out to their clients, and the clients are eager to consume them. The major problem, however, is that while most access networks have been upgraded to fiber over the past two decades or so, the new surge in service-related data is likely to overwhelm legacy end points and transceivers, rendering all that fiber moot ...