Metcalfe’s Law and the Value of Rural Networks
In 1965 an observation was made by David House that over the history of computing hardware, the processing power of a minimal cost computer chip would double approximately every two years – Moore’s Law. While the impact of that forecast has been widely accepted and credited with significant advances in technology and associated economic benefits, […]
The Shift to Microwave Broadband Is Coming Sooner than You Think
The tide is shifting on acceptance and adoption of microwave radio as a viable alternative or supplement to fibre and economics may dictate more of the same. For many in the telecommunications industry the recognition of microwave as a viable alternative to fibre to create carrier grade bandwidth with industry leading latency is not old […]
Smart Grid in Ontario – A Great Positive Step
On June 8, 2012, the Government of Ontario took the next step in their Clean Energy Economic Development Strategy, with the release of the Clean Energy Institute (CEI). The new institute will bring together industry leaders and utility companies to build on Ontario’s strengths in smart grid technologies and other clean energy innovations. In conjunction […]
Fiber and Wire Roadblocks: How Microwave can Help
The typical forms of voice and data transport for Carrier Ethernet Services are fiber and copper. While both provide connectivity in access networks, fiber is favoured for its prolific capacity, and copper is most widely used in environments with an existing telephone network . However, there are times when physical, geographical, legal, political or financial […]
Microwave and Carrier Ethernet: Separating Fact from Fiction
If you want to cause a stir, walk into a room full of seasoned technicians and mention microwave. Citing the twin fears of limited capacity and weather-dependent performance, many will offer stories of past problems without realizing that, like many other things in life, microwave has moved on. The Future is not the Past The […]
Ethernet’s Path to Ubiquity
Ethernet has been in a state of perpetual evolution since its inception – with significant accommodation for backwards compatibility thanks to frame structure standardization. While exponential increases in throughput are perhaps most noteworthy, Ethernet has also seen improvements in the flexibility of Media Access Control (MAC) mechanisms at Layer 1. A number of physical (PHY) sub-layer […]
Ethernet: Seamless Connectivity
WireIE’s Transparent Ethernet Solutions™ give carriers new and innovative ways to tap into hard-to-reach markets. And because TES scales so well, carriers are also discovering they can use TES to provide broadband services to enterprises where ROIs were previously prohibitive using antiquated leased facilities.WireIE is a Carrier Ethernet network operator and our TES solutions are backed up […]
Network Architecture Considerations for Smart Grid
Most would agree that the traditional centralized electrical distribution model will evolve to a distributed generation (DG) model. When this occurs, and to what degree remains to be seen. Regardless, a smart grid communications infrastructure is essential in the safe, reliable and efficient management of a DG infrastructure. For the past couple of years, WireIE […]
Cloud Computing & The Network Operator
With the broad adoption of personal computing, we have witnessed more than a quarter of a century of staggering incremental improvement in data processing power. These benefits have not only touched the traditional desktop. Smaller form factors such as laptops, netbooks, and now tablets and smart phones, are reaping the benefits of ever increasing clock […]
Forecast: Increasing Cloudiness
Cloud applications are wide and varied. Household names such as Facebook and Twitter are cloud based as are content management systems such as WordPress. Netflix, another house hold name, streams video to millions of viewers from its servers based in the cloud. At the other end of the spectrum are advanced IT oriented cloud services […]
