The evolution of connectivity providers is upon us, and they are entering into new ecosystems that include a larger network of vendors, hyperscale cloud providers and even satellite communication enablers.
Fiber Connect is an innovative, four-day, optical fiber business and technology event that will offer new and unique opportunities for business development, market development, technology demonstration and peer group interaction, August 20-23, 2023, in Orlando, Florida.
Telecom Review recently visited with Robert Conger, ADTRAN’s SVP of technology and strategy. He has been with the company for over 18 years, beginning as senior applications engineer before going on to occupy multiple roles, including director of product management and AVP for cloud and portfolio strategy. Robert’s diverse experience at ADTRAN makes him one of the company’s most invaluable employees. He oversees the company's end-to-end fiber broadband solutions portfolio, promoting future-proof 10G fiber access solutions and in-home wireless solutions that leverage the same software tools to maximize network performance and deliver efficient, end-to-end broadband services. With the large expansion of rural broadband in the USA ADTRAN is well positioned to expanding its position in the rural broadband market.
Jeremy Pease, CEO of Colohouse
To build state-of-the-art AI systems, you need a massive trove of data and a huge amount of computing power. Specifically, Generative AI tools, like ChatGPT are systems that are designed to leverage the power of this tech, and it’s already capable of impacting how people live and work.
The Honorable François-Philippe Champagne, Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, announced a new licensing policy that will give easy local access to 5G spectrum for Internet service providers and innovative industries, as well as rural, remote and Indigenous communities.
According to the data released by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), the five countries most prepared to use and adopt technologies that are essential to the green tech transition are the United States, Sweden, Singapore, Switzerland and the Netherlands.
Based on Lumen’s latest report detailing Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) mitigations in Q1 2023, 85% of the largest 1,000 DDoS attacks that the company mitigated targeted the telecommunications industry. In addition, more than 700,000 of the application requests blocked targeted telecom customers.
As a logical reaction to the potentially powerful capacity of artificial intelligence tools such as Microsoft-backed OpenAI’s ChatGPT to have a negative impact on societies and businesses, US regulators have taken up the task of establishing new rules governing such technologies.
The joint project "5G-empowered Smart Metro in Guangzhou" by Guangzhou Metro Group, China Mobile Guangzhou Branch and ZTE won "Best Mobile Innovation for Connected Economy" at the 2023 GLOMO Awards during the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2023 in Barcelona, Spain. As the first experimental application of 5G in the subway industry, this project builds a new application scenario of 5G technology in the subway field, creates a safe, accurate, collaborative and green subway service system with ubiquitous interconnection and holographic perception, and plays an exemplary role on 5G application research for subway passenger service and intelligent operation and maintenance.
