Recent Entries

• digital electronics in the telecommunications

  by ravi teja May 12, 2021
  Perhaps the most fundamental change, both in terms of technology and its implications for industry structure, has occurred in the architecture of telecommunications networks. Architecture in this context refers to the functional description of the general structure of the system as a whole and how t...

• networking research and network deployment

  by ravi teja May 10, 2021
  The roles of NSF (the largest overall federal sponsor of information and communications technology research) and DARPA (a traditionally important sponsor of telecommunications research) have been evolving, with implications for telecommunications research.Long a supporter of networking research and ...

• fundamental telecommunications research

  by ravi teja May 6, 2021
  Historically, the Bell System played a leading role in long-term, fundamental telecommunications research in the United States.The Bell System maintained a large research program and talent pool and ensured a flow of ideas and innovation across disciplines and among the research, business, and opera...

• Communication—from Web browsing to cell phone

  by ravi teja May 3, 2021
  Telecommunications provides a technological foundation for societal communications. Communication plays a central role in the fundamental operations of a society—from business to government to families. In fact, communication among people is the essence of what distinguishes an organization, c...

• significant funder of wireless research.

  by ravi teja April 30, 2021
  In the early 1990s, DARPA was involved in the research on and adoption of asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) technology, as well as research into packet technologies for voice and video. Along with nearly 40 other organizations, DARPA also completed work on the Gigabit Testbed Initiative, an effort by...

• systems that provide long-reach communications

  by ravi teja April 28, 2021
  In addition to emphasizing the impact of U.S. communications research on C4I (i.e., command, control, communications, computers, and intelligence2), it is also important to briefly note the relevance to C4I of the engineering disciplines. Much of the basic mathematics that underlies telecommunicatio...