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AT&T MISSES THE MARK WITH U-VERSE

Posted on January 2, 2014 by James Carlini | 3 comments

By James Carlini

It’s time for a total shake-up of AT&T executives who think they understand the market for high-speed services to residential customers. Take it from someone who worked at Bell Labs and got a ton of real network infrastructure training in the Bell System: Get rid of them because they do not understand what is needed in today’s work-at-home, telecommuter market.

Where is the strategy at AT&T when it comes to their flagship product, U-Verse? It certainly doesn’t address the realities of today’s Continue reading →

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Tagged AT&T, COMCAST, James Carlini, network, network diversity, U-Verse

ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING NEEDS BROADBAND CONNECTIVITY

Posted on August 22, 2013 by James Carlini | 2 comments

By James Carlini

There is a lot of promise from the growing industry of 3D printers and manufacturing products through their use as well as new 3D scanners. This technology is providing a second industrial revolution in the United States as well as globally.

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Tagged 3D, 3D printer, 3D printing, 3D scanners, additive manufacturing, bandwidth, broadband, broadband connectivity, commercial real estate, DAS, data, fiber optics, GE, gigabits, high-speed networks, IBC, industrial parks, industrial revolution, infrastructure, intelligent infrastructure, James Carlini, network, networks, New York Times, NY Times, prototyping, terabits, terabytes, Thomas Friedman, WiFi

USING COPPER CABLING? BEWARE OF THIEVES

Posted on July 10, 2013 by James Carlini | Leave a comment

By James Carlini

Copper cabling is still used in both electrical and telecommunications applications. Both the power company as well as the telephone companies, still use a lot of it for distributing power as well as distributing communication signals for voice, data, and video. Because of its value, many are thinking it is an Continue reading →

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BUILDING CONNECTIVITY: FIVE WAYS TO TELL IF YOUR BUILDING IS OBSOLETE

Posted on June 28, 2013 by James Carlini | Leave a comment

By James Carlini

EXCERPT from James Carlini’s upcoming book, Location, Location, Connectivity :

How receptive is your building to all the new connectivity technology exploding onto the market? Have your Smartphone with you? Does it work well in your building? What about your applications running on your enterprise network? Are you getting the speeds you need to compete in the 21st century? Or, are you stuck with 20th century connectivity because no one knows how to upgrade the building’s network infrastructure? Continue reading →

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DEFINING 21st CENTURY REAL ESTATE

Posted on February 20, 2013 by James Carlini | 3 comments

By James Carlini

Real estate is going through some critical changes in this century. It has become a more complex product to understand, manage and sell. It has become more sophisticated than just “selling space”. It has gone beyond the inclusion of traditional amenities of energy management (HVAC), life safety, security, elevators and Continue reading →

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Tagged architecture, buildings, campuses, commercial real estate, DAS, developers, fiber optics, IBC, IIP, industrial parks, intelligent buildings, Intelligent Business Campuses, IREC, James Carlini, mission critical, network, power grid, property management, redundant power, WiFi