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The Life and Death of The Analog Telephone

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The analog telephone network has been around for almost 140 years. It has played a major role in communications, both voice and data, as the following infographic by small business telecom research firm Software Advice shows As of 2020, it is projected that US carriers will no longer have to maintain analog phone networks. In some states, as early as Jan 1, 2017, this legislation will take...
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The FOA Reference For Fiber Optics – OLANs- Fiber Optic LANs

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Optical LANs have been around since the mid-1980s but in the last few years they have benefited from the worldwide move to install fiber to the home. With over 100 million FTTH subscribers, FTTH has become a market driven by the economies of scale and costs have plummeted. It did not take long for designers to understand that FTTH, especially as used in multi-dwelling units, was similar to typical...
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Friday 5 video for 10.28.16

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CenturyLink and Level 3 may be a go, Google Fiber is a no, Facebook Wedges in 100G ToR switches, and more this week in the Friday 5 video. Lightwave Editorial Director Stephen Hardy offers his takes on these stories and others. Source: Friday 5 video for 10.28.16
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Jellyfish Inspired Lodges To Help Clean The Environment – Secret Energy

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Robot 'jellyfish' with 'tentacles' that catch trash and clean polluted water   The Jellyfish Lodge is a concept conceived by architect Janine Hung for Inhabitat’s Biodesign Competition. They boast kitchen and bathroom-equipped living quarters and even vegetable gardens in their base. They have long 'tentacles' leading into the surrounding river which traps and collects rubbish and al...
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Printable Medicine To End Animal Testing

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A breakthrough in 3D, printable medicine has enabled engineers to create human 'organs' on a microchip, fully usable for testing against drugs and toxins. They are not actual organs, but, instead, a layer of six types of ink, all printed in a combination that causes the chip to react as if it were the actual organ.  They have, specifically, recreated Source: Printable Medicine To End Animal Testi...
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Health Risk: 5G Ultra-High Frequency Radiation Is Coming

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The 5G revolution is rushing toward us and it will bring a whole new era of harm from ultra-high microwave frequency radiation. And those who raise their voices against the danger to our health and our human rights to safety have been the subject of harassment, intimidation and attempts to silence them. 'Stay out of the way of technological development.' Source: Health Risk: 5G Ultra-High Frequen...
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The internet is controlled by secret keys – Business Insider

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A highly scripted ritualThe physical keys unlock safe deposit boxes. Inside those boxes are smart key cards. It takes multiple keys to gain access to the device that generates the internet's master key.That master key is really some computer code known as a root key-signing key. It is a password of sorts that can access the master ICANN database. This key generates more keys that trickle down to p...
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Calgary researchers achieve 6.2-kilometre teleportation, raising hopes for ‘quantum internet’

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In a "major step" toward practical quantum networking, researchers at the University of Calgary have successfully demonstrated the teleportation of a light particle's properties between their lab and the city's downtown area, six kilometres away. Source: Calgary researchers achieve 6.2-kilometre teleportation, raising hopes for 'quantum internet'
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Wireless technology: The dark side of convenience

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Wireless causes DNA breaks and cellular leakageAndrew Goldsworthy, a retired Imperial College (UK) cell biologist with no industry affiliations who has studied this area extensively, attributes most of the health effects EHS sufferers report to a single cause: at certain frequencies, weak wireless signals – far below safety standards – which pull structurally important calcium ions off of our body...
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