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Let's Collaborate to Connect Americans with Broadband
America has had a good start on linking its citizens to affordable, adequate broadband networks, but more needs to be done. BCoE Executive Director Dr. Rouzbeh Yassini has reached out to the broadband leading industry cable television for support in his quest to achieve universal service for broadband.
Let's Collaborate to Connect Americans with Broadband
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May BCoE Newsletter
May, 2016
Welcome to our second newsletter and thanks to all who took the time to read and comment on our April issue. A lot is going on involving broadband globally, and here is a brief glimpse of some key elements from our perspective
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Broadband Center of Excellence Tech Talk
March, 2016
Cloud-Based Service Networks of the Future
April 18, 2016 2 pm - 3:30 pm
MUB Theatre 1
Speakers:
Kevin McElearney, Senior Vice President, Network Engineering, Comcast
Dr. Rouzbeh Yassini, Executive Director, UNH Broadband Center of Excellence
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Broadband Center of Excellence Tech Talk
April, 2016
April 18, 2106 2 pm to 3:30 pm
Speakers:
Kevin McElearney, Senior Vice President, Network Engineering, Comcast
Dr. Rouzbeh Yassini, Executive Director, UNH Broadband Center of Excellence
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Why Broadband Needs a Broader Vision
December, 2015
Imagine an intelligent being has been hurtled to Earth from a distant galaxy and is hovering somewhere over a metropolis near you. We'll call our being BOB, for Broadband Observational Bot.
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YAS Foundation Grant to UNH Will Support Broadband Center of Excellence
DURHAM, N.H. – A grant to the University of New Hampshire’s Broadband Center of Excellence (BCoE) from the YAS Foundation will expand the center’s efforts to leverage UNH research and technology to ensure universal and affordable broadband service worldwide. The $1 million, seven-year grant will establish UNH as a thought leader and advance the effective use of broadband technologies at the university.
The BCoE, which was established with the leadership of Rouzbeh Yassini, is an unbiased resource for... Read More
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Smart Cities Don’t Need to Wait
February, 2015
The tools to help battle natural disasters are already here.
It’s fitting to call the 2015 New England winter a “100-year white flood.” That’s because, unfortunately, the storms of 2015 remind us that cities are still using yesterday’s solutions to deal with severe climate conditions.
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Internet of People
November, 2014
Momentum is building fast around the next big broadband advancement: a world where billions of intelligent sensors and devices produce the data ingredients for a quantum leap forward in environmental intelligence, automation, predictability and ubiquitous connectivity. These capabilites will have dramatic and positive impact on our economy and our quality of life.
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Phase 2 of TVWS trial shows promise
Airplay: Sector antennas that concentrate signal coverage have helped to elevate data rates for the UNH TV White Space trial.
Sector antennas, improved spectrum analysis elevate data rates significantly.
Author: Stewart Schley
The second phase of the trial that uses TVWS spectrum to provide over-the-air Internet access from the University of New Hampshire campus to remote libraries produced significantly improved performance, with top downstream data rates nearing 10 Mbps, and upstream rates nearing 5 Mbps.
The UNH Broadband Center of Excellence connected three libraries and selected... Read More
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Services, not just speed, should determine broadband classification
Symmetrical performance should be the goal for a new broadband definition, UNH BCoE suggests.
An updated definition of advanced service capability should consider more than raw speed, UNH BCoE suggests.
In considering a new definition of what constitutes “broadband” Internet connectivity, the Federal Communications Commission should consider performance levels necessary to convey a base set of services that flow over high-speed networks, more so than “raw” measures of speed.
That’s among the recommendations made by the UNH Broadband Center of Excellence in its submission to the FCC... Read More
