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How Twitter and Samuel Morse Are Connected

January 6, 1838: Samuel Morse first demonstrated the his concept for the telegraph system, which many would consider the first form of telecommunications in the world. March 21, 2006: Jack Dorsey published the first Twitter message ever. These two men and their inventions, while separated by hundreds of years, have more in common than you…

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The Cranky Sun Could Interrupt Your Service

The Cranky Sun Could Interrupt Your Service – Just about a week ago, Wired Magazine had an piece about how a bad solar storm could negatively impact the internet.  This article was in response to a presentation at the SIGCOMM 2021 data communication conference by Sangeetha Abdu Jyothi from the University of California, Irvine.  I’ll…

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The Convergence Of Telecom And Transportation

We’re so stuck in government has this thing, they’re gonna put it out tomorrow, and
they’re gonna solve this thing. We need to get to the point where the conversation is more
of, you know, we both have a problem. Come together, let’s solve it. Let’s not think of it as
I’m a customer, I’m hiring a vendor to solve the problem. I mean, I get that in some cases,
but in some other cases, like this whole tunnel thing that Dan is actually a good it’s a good
one. It’s a good public private partnership that solving a common problem in two different
perspectives, a state perspective and a private sector perspective.

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Data Centers: the Missing Link

When 5G started to become a reality, it seemed that we might finally have the bandwidth needed to make many of those IoT dreams come true. But there remains a missing piece – data centers.

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