The leap second is coming to confuse the internet today article tells that today June 30 2015 just before midnight in London, the world’s atomic clocks will add one extra second, reading a time of 23:59:60 before ticking back to 00:00:00. You can expect to see some problems somewhere as in 2012, the unexpected leap second crashed →
When you want to spead IoT devices around, there is challenge of powering them. You need to provide power to them or be prepared to change batteries in then very now and then. Great things are expected of the Internet of things but only if engineers can solve one potential show-stopper of a question: how →
Electrical power distribution networks are getting smarter every way with increased automation within n networks and smart meters at the customer premises. Those new features have many benefits, but they also introduce new vulnerabilities to the system. As smart grids become more vulnerable to cyber-attacks every day, what developments are in place to ensure a →
In the begining of this year I wrote posting Telecom trends for 2014 that includes my expectations for this year. As year 2014 ends quite soon, it is a good idea to look back how well those estimations went. I use italics for material from the original Telecom trends for 2014 posting. Mobile infrastructure must catch →
Is hardware turning soft? Yes, if you listen to IT vendors. Almost all IT technologies are pushing to direction being “software defined”. Software Defined Networking (SDN) — turning features that were once hardware into apps or part of the networking layer or running as apps on servers. The Register article SDN’s dream: Use what you’ve →
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Once the weaklings of the laser world, unable to emit a few milliwatts continuously at room temperature, laser diodes have become workhorses. Today they power the Internet, pump multikilowatt lasers, and weld plastics. There’s a lot of innovation in those tiny chips. Photonic Frontiers: Laser diodes: Looking back/Looking forward: Laser diodes have come a long →
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