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No 5G but 10G – Fueling Connectivity for Digital Inclusion

Building a fiber network from scratch Our own telecom fiber network building project here in Degerö (my home village) is on its final stages. The backbone connections are mostly completed. A number of homes, cottages and business facilities will be connected shortly. Each one with no less than 1 Gigabit per second symmetric capacity. As […]

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Digital Cabals

The last few days have seen unprecedented use of political power by cloud conglomerates like Amazon, Apple, Facebook and others. Digitalization accelerates with such speeds that most governments are hopelessly late (or powerless) in their regulation of equal access and commercial rules. The most shocking decision comes from Jeff Bezos of Amazon, the company terminated […]

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Digital to Analog Paralysis: The 100-Year Digital Innovation Gap

Here on the coastal countryside we live in, there are numerous Swedish-language places called ‘Telegrafberget’, meaning Telegraph Hill. Some of them still have stone or wooden foundations where the tall telegraph buildings once stood. The hills have direct line-of-sight to each other and are usually a few kilometers apart. While Finland is often titled as […]

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Situational Awareness in Telecom: Global IP Networks Then and Now

In 1988, I started working on a global IP network called AGNET for A. Ahlstrom Corporation. Although the company was primarily about pulp & paper, heavy machinery and packaging, it had long roots in being an early adopter of latest information technologies an communications. The initial core network consisted of factory sites with HP3000 minicomputers, […]

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Warming Helsinki with energy efficient Data Centers

Our favorite IT provider Academica is now constructing one of the world’s most energy efficient data centers. But not only that, it is also the first one with a full heat recovery system. The realization of this projects happens in close cooperation with the local energy utility, Helsinki Energy. In other words, warmth from the […]