Broadband for all

Community Broadband: Towards Education for All

Malaysia, in its effort to achieve its Vision 2020, launched a National Broadband Pelan (NBP) in 2004; subsequently Broadband Implementation Plan was formulated in 2007 as an effort and strategy by the government to provide and upgrade the ICT infrastructure and broadband facilities throughout Malaysia. The initiative to bridge digital divide is encapsulated in two strategic foundations of the ...

The Broadband for All Cluster in FP6

This paper describes the Broadband For All Cluster, which resides within the IST (Information Society Technologies) Thematic Area of the EU’s 6 Framework Programme. By explaining the topics being addressed by the projects in the Cluster, it gives a summary of the current trends in broadband provision in the access and core networks, from the perspective of the major industrial and network opera...

Broadband All-Optical Ultrasound Transducer

Real-time three-dimensional (3D) high-resolution ultrasound imaging requires 2D phased arrays operating at frequencies higher than 50 MHz, which poses a great challenge for piezoelectric technologies. A promising alternative is an optoacoustic array relying on optical generation and detection of ultrasound. We present an all-optical ultrasound transducer, which consists of a 2D gold nanostructu...

All-optical broadband ultrasonography of single cells

Cell mechanics play a key role in several fundamental biological processes, such as migration, proliferation, differentiation and tissue morphogenesis. In addition, many diseased conditions of the cell are correlated with altered cell mechanics, as in the case of cancer progression. For this there is much interest in methods that can map mechanical properties with a sub-cell resolution. Here, w...

Unlocking broadband for all. Broadband infrastructure sharing policies and strategies in emerging markets