Accelerating out of the crisis
www.communicationstoday.co.in Harnessing advanced technology to create new opportunities is more about programmatic, disciplined effort, carried out over time, than it is about inspiration. COVER FEATURE The spirit of innovation and decades of pushing technological boundaries have led to the creation of every one of the communication services that is taken for granted today. Whether it is connecting people with fast, reliable broadband so they can work, shop and socialize at home and on the move – or the increasingly diverse range of ways high quality broadcast content can be watched – technology advances have made what just decades ago would be considered unthinkable, everyday reality. But these technologies have deep historical roots. The wireless and fiber networks used today depend on physical principles first established by James Clark Maxwell in 1861, and on mathematical limits developed by Claude Shannon in 1948. And it took another 48 years for Claude Berrou to show how enginee