Reliable storage moves fast, as Gordon Moore predicted in the 1960s. Now you can get the equivalent of 40 human brains in one system, writes Alan Burkitt-Gray

The telecoms industry has a problem: its workers are getting old, and recruiting school and university leavers is hard, as they are unaware of the work we do, data centre and telecoms people tell Alan Burkitt-Gray

The FCC is tightening up its rules for voice calls routed into the us, which may offer new revenue opportunities for carriers, writes Alan Burkitt-Gray

Alan Burkitt-Gray boards a plane and worries about the increasing use of facial recognition technology

A shortage of cable ships is hurting the subsea industry’s booming demand for new fibre routes to serve hyperscalers. Alan Burkitt-Gray investigates

An industry analyst with more than 30 years of experience, Chris Lewis’s day is anything but typical. Overlay this with the fact that Lewis is registered blind, and the experience becomes even more unique.

This is the 15th ITW, but how did it start? Alan Burkitt-Gray was there at the first, and tells the fascinating story

The speed of light is constant throughout the universe, except in optical fibres. But users are willing to pay more for speed, writes Alan Burkitt-Gray

The origin story of today’s infrastructure lies in the high-speed, high-capacity networks used in academic and scientific research. Alan Burkitt-Gray talks to the people behind two providers of these: Géant in Europe and Internet2 in the US

The dispute in the US over 5G’s potential effects on aviation and recent reports on future spectrum availability have brought issues around spectrum to light. so, What will it take to ensure spectrum use is maximised in the long term? Gareth Willmer investigates

Like most of us, Erik Sonnerskog, head engineer at Zsah Managed IT Services, starts his day by looking at his email for “new inquires, going over the days schedule of meetings, checking the logs to make sure there was no unexpected glitches or outages on any of the networks overnight”.

As talk of the ‘metaverse’ continues at pace, Natalie Bannerman speaks to industry experts on what this new age of the internet will mean for the infrastructure and networks of the telecoms space