I saw the light of the future when I first read Ray Kurzweil’s best-seller book The
Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology. One cubic inch of nanotube cir-
cuitry, once fully developed, would be up to one hundred million times more powerful
than the human brain.
Many times I have been asked to explain “ briefl y ” how SDH, SONET, and the
OTN “ exactly ” work. The questions came mainly from new colleagues, stu-
dents, and users of these technologies, personally or via the usenet newsgroup
comp.dcom.sdh - sonet. I could have referred them to the standards ...
How will future generations refer to our times? Will it be known as one
of space exploration, genetics, atomic energy or computing? Possibly,
but I think it is more likely to be ‘The age of communications’. Not since
printed books and newspapers were first introduced has there been
such an explosi ...
The continued reduction of integrated circuit feature sizes and
commensurate improvements in device performance are fueling the progress
to higher functionality and new application areas. For example, over the last
15 years, the performance of microprocessors has increased 1000 times.
Analog circuit ...
The last decade proved to be hugely successful for the mobile communications industry,
characterised by continued and rapid growth in demand, spurred on by new technological
advances and innovative marketing techniques. Of course, when we refer to mobile commu-
nications, we tend to implicitly refer ...
Ever since ancient times, people continuously have devised new techniques and
technologies for communicating their ideas, needs, and desires to others. Thus,
many forms of increasingly complex communication systems have appeared
over the years. The basic motivations behind each new one were to impro ...
