Huawei aims for global domination

Stockholm hosted the 21st annual Global Forum this week, highlighted by forecasts of a heated-up world market in telecommunications, innovative R&D policy, and burgeoning e-government services.

By Jay Gillette | 16 November, 2012 18:52

Tags: Huawei, Configuration / maintenance, alcatel-lucent, Cloud, global forum, hardware systems, Data Center, cloud computing, internet, LAN & WAN

Muni Wi-Fi lives

Riverside, Calif., using a municipal broadband network to overcome the digital divide and mobilize various sectors of the community, won the coveted 2012 Intelligent Community award last week.

Global warming could enable undersea Arctic telecom route

HONOLULU -- "Harnessing Disruption: Global, Mobile, Social, Local," was the theme at the 34rd Pacific Telecommunications Council (PTC) conference last week in Honolulu.

Huawei wows Global Forum

Brussels, Belgium -- The 20th annual Global Forum last week highlighted the growing power of Asian information industries, plus the formidable technology challenges facing IT professionals who grapple with increasingly urgent integration requirements as systems converge and people become more mobile.

By Jay Gillette | 15 November, 2011 08:30

Tags: Configuration / maintenance, IBM, Networking, global forum, european commission, infrastructure management, hardware systems, Data Center, internet, cloud computing, management

World's fastest muni net wins award

The Intelligent Community Forum (ICF) has named Suwon, South Korea, as the 2010 Intelligent Community of the Year. Suwon has built the world’s fastest, large municipal network, improving connection speeds from an already impressive 32M to 1Gbps. The infrastructure is being used to enhance education, library development, and e-government.

By Jay Gillette | 26 May, 2010 01:30

Tags: suwon, intelligent community forum, South Korea, municipal network

Global Forum eyes digital trust, broadband race

This year's Global Forum met last week in this paradoxically ancient and modern European city, and celebrated technological advance while noting chaotic policy environment conditions.

By Jay Gillette | 29 October, 2008 09:10

Tags: security, broadband