The document outlines the history and development of telecommunications infrastructure from the first transatlantic cable in 1850 to the present day fiber optic cables capable of transmitting 1 terabit per second. It discusses current challenges facing telecom infrastructure like lack of coverage, investment, and rising production costs. The document proposes a visionary approach of using satellite infrastructure instead of ground-based systems and establishes a model for a new era of satellite services along with potential effects.

1. Group : Brian Iversen Nan Zhao Robin B. Thieu

2. Outline Telecom Infrastructure Challenges Visionary Effects

3. Development of Communication 1/1/1983 : first TCP/IP-wide area network made 1988 : opening of the network to commercial interests began 1989 : The Web was invented by English scientist Tim Berners-Lee 2008 : 1.407 billion people use the Internet 1850 : started the first telegraph cable link between England and France. 1956 : the first trans-Atlantic telephone cable = 36 analog phone channels Now : fiber-optic submarine cables = 1 Tb/s, equivalent to 15 million old analog phone calls

4. Mapping Visualization of the various routes through a portion of the Internet. - Wikipedia

5. Data: Telecom and Growth

6. Challenges Lack of coverage of telecom infrastructure Lack of investment Raising cost of production

7. Visionary “ Why don’t we reach to the sky instead of exploiting the ground?” Robinson Crusoe: 1651

8. Visionary: New Era of Satellite Satellite infrastructure Devices standardization SAT Foundation

9. Effects Model

10. PQ + CQ > IQ “ The World is Flat ” – Thomas Friedman “ The Globe is Round.” Q&A

11. Satellite Animation http:// youtube.com/watch?v = H_KdFvLvZIM