Rhode Island at the Forefront of Oceanographic Exploration

   The 2013 deep sea research and exploration cycle has wrapped-up. Once again Rhode Island was at the forefront of oceanographic exploration with Dr. Robert Ballard’s work at the Center of Ocean Exploration at URI, and NOAA’s Okeanos home ported at Quonset...

dB’s Shouldn’t Give You the Heebie Jeebies

A confusing and often misunderstood topic when working with optical networks are the dB and dBm values associated with power and loss. You will sometimes hear these values used interchangeably when they are actually two different measurements. The following article...

The Pace of Technology Change

I was at a school district meeting on technology the other night and one of the parents in attendance asked why her son’s teacher didn’t use the beautiful SmartBoard the school had purchased over a year ago. The discussion quickly turned to the school’s lack of...