We all know how basic network communications work. Between two points, data is transmitted using various technologies and across various types of infrastructure (subsea fibre, terrestrial fibre, satellite or wireless) mostly reliant on electromagnetic waves, to reach its end point.
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Capacity explores the factors behind circular economy adoption, and investigates why more granular data on network components is key to driving adoption of the principles -
Nadine Hawkins investigates whether telcos are ready to handle the upsurge in AI compute power demands
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Natalie Bannerman delves into the world of development finance institutions and its digital infra investments.
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Africa Mobile Networks unique business has seen strong growth and helped connect Africa’s unconnected
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Your weekly dose of inspiration from the Capacity Editorial team, bringing you the top podcasts, must-read books and rising stars in the telecoms industry.
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In the field, in a laboratory or office, Capacity celebrates some of the women in engineering, working hard to keep us all connected.
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While some claim ChatGPT 4.0 can enable a new wave of business messaging, George Malim finds enterprises do not trust the AI chatbot and legal and regulatory issues with it are yet to be resolved.
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As quantum computing evolves, Guy Matthews examines how this advanced technology can be applied to satellite communications.
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In his final Innovation column, Alan Burkitt-Gray looks back 30 years, to when he forecast that 1Mbps would provide the superfast superhighway we all need.
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While telcos and tech companies continue to tackle the problem, Capacity asks whether we are casting our nets wide enough when it comes to telecoms talent. Kate O’Flaherty investigates.
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The Next G Alliance wants to shape 6G’s development to meet the ‘unique needs’ of the US. Ken Wieland investigates how it can do this while being committed to a single global standard.
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All-optical networks that use photonics are the industry’s dream solution to the ever-increasing demand for speed. Alan Burkitt-Gray talks to Fabienne Saliou, a research engineer at Orange, which is running an exciting project using this tech
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Capacity’s Natalie Bannerman examines the role of private equity in investing in subsea cable infrastructure in the Latin America and the Caribbean regions.
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There’s growth in cloud services across Latin America, especially in Brazil, Chile and Mexico. Alan Burkitt-Gray looks at the trends that are appearing in the region.
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For International Women’s Day 2023, Alan Burkitt-Gray looks at how the top companies in our industry are doing. Better, but still not good enough. Women need role models
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Rumours were rampant surrounding data centre outages over the winter. Saf Malik investigates how likely it was these fears would come true.
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With the macroeconomic picture as it is, the political landscape in flux and growing uncertainty of what the world will look like in 2023, even making predictions for the next month is an exercise in guess work.
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Industries are recognising finally that the challenges of security in the era of quantum computing are as great as those of the millennium bug 25 years ago, writes Alan Burkitt-Gray
