Bob Stoffels

  Issue
 Article Title
  APRIL 2010 From Here To There: Telecommunications Networks of Today
  The country's entire telecommunications system is moving away from circuit switching and toward packet switching. And it is moving fast.
  MARCH 2010 LTE
  WiMAX is now in operation in some 350 locations worldwide, and a new technology, Long Term Evolution (LTE), is coming up fast. WiMAX and LTE are different so far as technical details are concerned, but they share many similarities. Are the two technologies competitors? Yes. Might they eventually come together? They might.
  FEBRUARY 2010 Ethernet
  The Ethernet situation isn't much different from what happens, say, at a dinner party when two people start talking at the same time. They hear each other, and instantly fall silent. There is a brief pause, and then one or the other re-starts the conversation. Because the two are looking at each other they are usually able to avoid a collision. But what if they can't see each other?
  OCTOBER 2009 Harold H. Greene (1923-2000)
  AT&T was under attack. The Justice Department had accused the company of unfair practices, and had filed suit under the Sherman Antitrust Act. What follows is a to-the-point history of the breakup of AT&T; it includes hundreds of people, thousands of documents, renegotiations, and finally, the breakup of AT&T's empire. Oh, and it includes a Caribbean vacation, too.
  JULY 2009 Gordon Moore
  "It's not a law; just an observation." So claimed Gordon Earle Moore. But without that "law" the telecommunications industry would be decades less advanced. ...the speakerphone apparatus would fit in a shoebox rather than in a tiny telephone, and cell phones would continue to occupy the major part of an automobile trunk. Who knows what a DSL router would look like?
  APRIL 2009 Claude Shannon
(April 30, 1916 - February 24, 2001)
  He invented a chess-playing computer, a maze-solving magnetic mouse, and the infamous Ultimate Machine. But none of these could compare with his discovery that literally changed the face of telecommunications…
  JANUARY 2009 Kilby, Noyce, and the Integrated Circuit
  NOVEMBER 2008 Brattain, Bardeen, Shockley
  SEPTEMBER 2008 Theodore N. Vail
  JULY 2008 Angus Macdonald
  MAY 2008 Almon Brown Strowger and Patent No. 447,918
  MARCH 2008 Who Invented the Telephone?
  JANUARY 2008 Telecom Giants
  DECEMBER 2007 Integrated Circuits
  NOVEMBER 2007 Outsourcing
  OCTOBER 2007 Internet2
  SEPTEMBER 2007 Smartphones
  AUGUST 2007 Broadband Over Power Lines
  JULY 2007 Hard Drive
  JUNE 2007 Spectrum Auction
  MAY 2007 Bell Labs