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The Evolution of Communication Technology

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It seems that humans never have enough ways to talk to each other. There are those of us that only speak when we have something important to say, and there are others that seem to talk to hear their own voices. We don’t always vocalize our communication either. As Tim Allen reminds us, sometimes a good grunt […]

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Mainframes, Microprocessors, NFV and Moon Landings

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A few weeks ago I wrote about the birth of the Internet. In that article I discussed the emergence of the communications technology that reinvented networking and enabled the Internet: packet switching. Packet switching was proposed by the builders of ARPANET but until the invention of the microprocessor wasn’t economically or logistically practical. In those […]