Telecom Infrastructure and Growth

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