In the next lecture of the 2010 College of Science, Engineering and Food Science (SEFS) Public Lecture Series at UCC, Dr Fatima Gunning will discuss how the Internet, together with broadband access, allow us to be in constant communication globally, whether at home or away, using technologies like the latest 3G mobile phones or even gaming consoles such as the PSP3. The ever-increasing bandwidth demands to deliver new and emerging applications will require telecommunication service providers to upgrade the capacity for both customer delivery (broadband and fibre-to-the-home) and the largely unseen core network.
In her lecture titled “What Lies Beneath? How Photonics Can Save the Internet from the Bandwidth Crunch”, Dr Gunning will consider the evolution of Internet demands, and will describe how Photonics research at the Tyndall National Institute, UCC addresses imminent bandwidth bottlenecks in the access, metro and core network. The lecture will be delivered on Wednesday, February 24th at 8pm in Boole IV Lecture Theatre.
Fatima Gunning obtained her PhD from PUC-Rio, Brasil, in 2000. Her research investigated the fundamental properties of optical fibres. She worked in the telecom industry with BT and Corning for several years and then joined the UCC Department of Physics and Tyndall National Institute, UCC in 2003, focusing on high capacity optical network research for the future. She also investigates technologies that merge telecommunications with biosensing.
Organised by Professor William Reville, Public Awareness of Science Officer, UCC, the highly popular lecture series, continues weekly until March 10th 2010.
Admission to the lecture is free, and as always, members of the public are invited to attend. See http://understandingscience.ucc.ie
Picture: Dr Fatima Gunning
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