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Human-Based Health Care in a Remote Pod
Bridging the Care Gap: Karthik Ganesh on OnMed’s “Clinic in a Box” The American healthcare system is facing a “perfect storm” as an aging population increases demand while the supply of primary care providers continues to shrink. At CES 2025, OnMed CEO Karthik Ganesh emphasized that the solution isn’t just better tech, but a new…
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Space Communications Via Laser Beams
In the noisy exhibition halls of CES2025, we stumbled upon the emerging world of optical (laser) satellite communications. As the space economy grows, the “pipes” used to send data back to Earth—traditional radio waves—are becoming congested. In the above interview, SangHoon Oh, Ph.D., Research Director for SpaceBeam, explains how their new optical ground stations unlock…
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Unlocking Career Growth: The Power of Association
“You get a chance to bounce ideas off of people you don’t necessarily have within your company,” says Jennifer Vassil, the Fiber Broadband Association’s Vice President of Membership. Vassil is speaking about the many opportunities for FBA members to contribute to the association’s work in furthering its fiber deployment and usage goals. With over 625…
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Exit Interview with Gary Johnson
It must have been the winter of 2000 when I met Gary Johnson. He was a relatively young engineer with a remarkable grasp of technology and the needs of Paul Bunyan Telephone’s members. He was part of a group of Minnesota telephone companies exploring video-on-demand.1 Fast-forward to today and Gary is retiring from the company…
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Using Broadband & Distributed Computing to Turn Wasted Energy into Virtual Gold
Is broadband the missing link in capturing small-scale power that otherwise is wasted? Small-scale power sources are mostly in rural locations. The long distances make it impossible to justify the construction of capital-intensive, high-maintenance, and, potentially, hazardous, high-voltage power lines to these remote locations. One solution is to use the power at its source. An…
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The Blender Theory Driving Fiber Deployment
A hybrid model of fiber deployment that takes advantage of the density of urban pockets to help spread the costs to serve rural communities is altafiber’s approach to solving the digital divide. In the above interview, altafiber’s Director of Government Affairs and Business Development, Rob Shema, describes this so-called blender theory as a way to…
