16QAM, A Lesson in Physics
As a high school student, I vividly remember my physics professor trying to explain the law of refraction. In its simplest form, “the bending of a ray of light.” More complex than that, the whole class...
View ArticleA Non-Engineer’s Take on Wide Area Networks
Wide Area Networks (WANs) have been designed to address the specific needs of varying types of organizations, businesses and consumers. Business type, number of employees, data security level,...
View ArticleTrading Transit for Telecommuting – How Bandwidth Needs Are Affecting the...
1 in 5 workers, 7 days a week with 5 million by 2016. 4.2 million professionals, ≥ 1 day a week. The numbers don’t lie. Telework has become the new norm. In a world where the lines have blurred and...
View ArticleOut with the Old, in with the New: Fiber Over Copper
Enterprises across the country are moving away from traditional, legacy-based, last-mile operators and aggressively looking towards fiber-owned carriers to provide fiber infrastructure for their...
View ArticleBandwidth Super Highway: Migrating Straight to 100G
I remember growing up taking family vacations, my parents driving across multiple states in our paneled family station wagon on “one-lane” country roads or “two-lane” highways. Now, most of those same...
View ArticleHow the WAN was Won
From smoke signals to fire towers, from Pheidippides to the carrier pigeon, we have always sought effective ways to send critical signals long distances. This practice was innovated purely out of the...
View ArticlePrivate Fiber: The Cadillac of Network Solutions
With a culture set in the ideals of over-achievement, we as a population are always pushing the boundaries towards the biggest and the best. Whether it is priority boarding on a business flight, the...
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