This paper introduces the Telecommunication Outside Plant Markup Language (TOPML), an OpenGis GML (Geographic Markup Language) application schema designed to describe telecommunication outside plant data in which geographical information is an important issue. TOPML uses the standard OpenGis GML schema to include geographic properties to georeferenced telecom network elements. The use of TOPML ...

We present a method for low loss coupling of multiple fibers to optical waveguides. Simultaneous alignment of multiple fibers is done by placing the fibers in a V-groove array. Coupling efficiency can be enhanced by placing a high numerical aperture (HNA) fiber (MFD 4 μm) between the standard telecom fiber and a horizontal tapered waveguide. The splicing loss between the standard telecom fiber ...

Although knowledge spillovers have long been considered a critical element of economic growth in technology clusters by facilitating innovations, the relationship between characteristics of knowledge spillover network and regional cluster development is ambiguous. Based on patent co-authorship data, we construct inventor networks for two telecom clusters, New Jersey and Texas, in which the form...

Wireless ICT as a subcategory of the ICT industry has long been serving end users as its direct customers. The value for end users, i.e. connectivity as the end product of this industry, has been created in a linear chain where two major group of actors have been cooperating with each other: Telecom Equipment Vendors (TEV) and Mobile Network Operators (MNO). By the demand of other industries fo...

There has been much hype about big data analytics – a collection of technologies, including the Hadoop distributed file system, NoSQL databases, and machine learning tools. One study estimated that it can generate hundreds of billions of dollars of value across industries [1]. Another study reported that 75 of telecom operators surveyed would implement big data initiatives by 2017 [2]. Every o...

India is much more integrated with the world economy. Both current and capital accounts are complementing to each other. The economic slowdown that appears to have begun in the USA in September, 2008 has some negative impact on Indian economy. The most immediate and adverse effect of this global financial crisis on India is an out flow of Foreign Institutional Investment (FII) from the capital ...

Infrastructure investments expansion typically adds to the productive capacity in an economy, and thus to its economic growth. Network industries account for between one–tenth and onequarter of economy wide investments (OECD 2009 B). Telecom industry is one of the network industries, and broadband is a new technology that is widely used all over the world. It is the popular mode of access to th...

The debacle of the telecommunications industry in the late 1990s resulted in grave consequences to investors, workers, financial institutions, telecom companies, and the economy in general worldwide. As a relatively recent event, studies on what caused this great telecom bubble have just started to emerge. While these studies offered a variety of explanations, ranging from greedy executives and...