Communications

22 Nov 22

Ericsson to open multi-million-pound UK research centre for 6G tech

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

The Swedish telecommunications firm said it would invest “tens of millions of pounds” over the next decade in the new centre. The programme will employ 20 dedicated researchers with additional support for PhD students who will focus on research areas including network resilience and security, artificial intelligence, cognitive networks and…

24 Oct 22

View from Brussels: Crucial networks set for better protection

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

Deep in the Baltic Sea, two gas pipelines – Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2 – lie empty. NS2 had not shipped a single molecule to Germany from Russia thanks to Moscow’s illegal invasion of Ukraine at the beginning of this year. At the end of September, the Danish and…

18 Oct 22

Book review: ‘The Sounds of Life’ by Karen Bakker

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

Humans are rather poor listeners, compared with our fellow Earth-dwellers. The world is alive with sound that we cannot hear, from the ultrasonic echolocation of bats to the infrasonic ‘drumming heartbeat’ of the Earth’s crust beneath the crashing of ocean waves. In ‘The Sounds of Life: How Digital Technology is…

31 Aug 22

Strict new rules for telecoms firms to prevent cyber-attacks on UK networks

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

The Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) said the security regulations will be “among the strongest in the world” and will provide protections designed to prevent network failure or the theft of sensitive data. This will include protections to the electronic equipment and software at phone mast sites…

17 Jun 22

Book review: ‘Artificial Communication’ by Elena Esposito

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

When it comes to the algorithms that work with deep learning and big data there’s a strange paradox emerging, says Elena Esposito in ‘Artificial Communication’ (The MIT Press, £22.50, ISBN 9780262046664). The better they become at driving cars, composing music and scanning books, the more our discomfort increases. You only…

06 Jun 22

Beam-steering antenna enables 6G speeds on 5G equipment

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

Experimental results show the device can provide continuous ‘wide-angle’ beam steering, allowing it to track a moving mobile phone user in the same way that a satellite dish turns to track a moving object, but with significantly enhanced speeds. Devised by University of Birmingham researchers, the technology has demonstrated vast…

08 Mar 22

GP video calls only offer ‘minimal’ benefits, study finds

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

In 2017, private firm Babylon Health launched an app that allowed patients to launch video calls with a GP at any time of the day. But current figures show that just 0.5 per cent of GP appointments in England are actually being made via video or online. Academics from the…

17 Jan 22

FAA clears 45 per cent of commercial plane fleet after 5G deployment

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

Last week, the FAA disclosed a list of 50 US airports that will have buffer zones when wireless carriers turn on the new 5G services on January 19 2022, having previously warned that potential interference could affect sensitive aircraft instruments such as altimeters - which provide pilots with an accurate…

10 Jan 22

50 US airports get 5G buffer zones as controversy continues

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

Early last week, AT&T and Verizon Communications agreed to buffer zones around 50 airports to reduce the risk of 5G-related disruption from potential interference to sensitive aircraft instruments such as altimeters. The two companies also agreed to delay deployment of their their 5G plans for two weeks, averting an aviation…

22 Dec 21

British firm launches ‘most sophisticated’ communications satellite

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

The Inmarsat-6 F1 (I-6 F1) is the first of two satellites that the firm plans to launch into geostationary orbit, about 35,785km above the Earth. It will be able to make use of L-band communication networks using global narrowband technology Elera, as well as Ka-band. Although L-band provides relatively slow-speed…

Ericsson to open multi-million-pound UK research centre for 6G tech

View from Brussels: Crucial networks set for better protection

Book review: ‘The Sounds of Life’ by Karen Bakker

Strict new rules for telecoms firms to prevent cyber-attacks on UK networks

Book review: ‘Artificial Communication’ by Elena Esposito

Beam-steering antenna enables 6G speeds on 5G equipment

GP video calls only offer ‘minimal’ benefits, study finds

FAA clears 45 per cent of commercial plane fleet after 5G deployment

50 US airports get 5G buffer zones as controversy continues

British firm launches ‘most sophisticated’ communications satellite

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