telecom infrastructure and growth
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Telecommunication infrastructure and economic development.TRANSCRIPT
Group:Brian Iversen
Nan ZhaoRobin B.
Thieu
Outline Telecom Infrastructure
Challenges
Visionary
Effects
Development of Communication
1/1/1983: first TCP/IP-wide area network made
1988: opening of the network to commercial interests began
1989: The Web was invented by English scientist Tim Berners-Lee
2008: 1.407 billion people use the Internet
1850: started the first telegraph cable link between England and France.
1956: the first trans-Atlantic telephone cable = 36 analog phone channels
Now: fiber-optic submarine cables = 1 Tb/s, equivalent to 15 million old analog phone calls
Mapping
Visualization of the various routes through a
portion of the Internet. - Wikipedia
Data: Telecom and Growth
ChallengesLack of coverage of
telecom infrastructure
Lack of investment
Raising cost of production
Visionary
“Why don’t we reach to the sky instead of exploiting the ground?”
Robinson Crusoe: 1651
Visionary: New Era of Satellite
Satellite infrastructure
Devices standardization
SAT Foundation
Effects Model
PQ + CQ > IQ“The World is Flat” – Thomas Friedman
“The Globe is Round.”
Q&A
Satellite Animationhttp://
youtube.com/watch?v=H_KdFvLvZIM