Projections now (once again) have us filling the oceanic cables up withdata within the next five or so years, and for the global carriers of Internet traffic, the demand growth is finally rising fast enough to make up for their annual price declines.
Smarr is filling a nature reserve at UC Irvine with sensors to transmit environmental data to San Diego supercomputers, which are modeling weather patterns, seismic activity and behavior of animal populations.