Jan 7, 2014
October 25, 2013–We are pleased to announce that OSHEAN has successfully completed its $21.7M Broadband Technology Opportunity Program (BTOP) Federal Stimulus Grant. On October 25, 2013, we had the privilege to celebrate our project’s...
Jan 7, 2014
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...
Dec 23, 2013
Service providers across the globe, including OSHEAN, have built high-capacity optical backbones capable of transmitting vast quantities of information in short periods of time. These deployments take considerable engineering experience, time, and cost. No...
Dec 18, 2013
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...
Dec 16, 2013
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...
Dec 5, 2013
LinksWiresharkFiltering – Order of Precedence Cisco SPAN ConfigurationWireshark Filtertcp.port==81 and (ip.dst == 131.109.29.248 or ip.dst == 131.109.29.249 or ip.dst == 131.109.29.250 or ip.addr == 131.109.29.251) and data contains IPGROUP*Note: if...
Nov 27, 2013
As I look to Thanksgiving, my immediate thanks naturally goes to my family and the wonderful gifts they have all given me. This blog, however, is focused on my professional observations–so it is appropriate in this space to reflect on my thanks for the...
Nov 25, 2013
I have always been a fan of the “Did You Know” series which stems from this popular technology trend video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmwwrGV_aiE . I like perspective pieces like this one where we learn things like: it took 50 years for radio to reach 50...
Nov 10, 2013
Love the song from Creedence Clearwater Revival…. I attended a leadership conference this week and one of the sessions centered on the importance of storytelling. The speaker asked us to turn to the person next to us and tell them our life story in sixty...
Oct 29, 2013
OSHEAN’s New Website!Welcome to our new home! The design of this site will allow you to learn more about OSHEAN and what we do in an easy-to-navigate way. Please be take a moment and click the “About Us” and “Services” tabs to read about...
