Jun 17 2013
A roundup of ICT/technology news from across the Caribbean region during the period Monday 10 June to Sunday 16 June 2013. Monday, 10 June 2012 – nil – Tuesday, 11 June 2013 BTC Confident Of Retaining Fixed ‘Lion’s Share’ Bahamas – The Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC) yesterday said it welcomed the imminent arrival of number …
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Mar 06 2013
Although the Caribbean currently has a comprehensive network of submarine cables, new projects are emerging that still aim to increase connectivity. Is the region at risk of being over-connected? On February 26, the Caribbean Research and Education Network (C@ribNET) was formally launched in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. C@ribNET, which is a broadband fibre …
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Feb 01 2013
A quick overview of submarine communications cable systems in the Caribbean. In the past few weeks, Cuba commenced transmissions to the Internet on the ALBA-1 submarine cable, which runs between Cuba and Venezuela, and has a landing point Jamaica. Although there is generally much to rejoice whenever a new cable is commissioned, it was more so the …
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Jan 16 2013
What is the Internet of things or machine-to-machine communication? What are some of the implications and issues that may still need to be resolved? For those among us who are sci-fi buffs, “machine-to-machine” communication has been the norm for several decades. Over the last few years, technology has made considerable strides to get devices interconnected, …
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Jan 04 2013
The modern Internet turned 30 week. This post briefly compares the state of the Internet 30 years ago, with where it is today. Earlier this week, 1 January to be precise, was the 30th anniversary of the formal adoption of the Transmission Control Protocol and Internet Protocol (TCP/IP), which is widely held as the launchpad …
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