#nortel — Public Fediverse posts
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My city was walkable, even when I was a teen.
There were two grocery stores, a hardware store, a music store, two haberdashery-style department stores, two movie theatres. There were specialty shops for eyeglasses, leather, custom denim jeans... You could buy furniture for your house, mops and brooms to clean it up.
All this whilst also supporting a large mall complex filled with franchised chain stores, and local businesses alike.
We were the home of #Nortel, and pioneered a lot of the communications tech you take for granted every day.
All of this - and more - is now gone.
No grocery store, no department store, no specialty shops. A dead mall with no anchors.
We are now a handful of restaurants and shops that cater to visiting tourists from cruise ships arriving at canada's 3rd largest port.
Our town founded the very first labour #union - our streets ran red with blood - but only 150 years later, we have completely forgotten there was anything to fight for.
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My city was walkable, even when I was a teen.
There were two grocery stores, a hardware store, a music store, two haberdashery-style department stores, two movie theatres. There were specialty shops for eyeglasses, leather, custom denim jeans... You could buy furniture for your house, mops and brooms to clean it up.
All this whilst also supporting a large mall complex filled with franchised chain stores, and local businesses alike.
We were the home of #Nortel, and pioneered a lot of the communications tech you take for granted every day.
All of this - and more - is now gone.
No grocery store, no department store, no specialty shops. A dead mall with no anchors.
We are now a handful of restaurants and shops that cater to visiting tourists from cruise ships arriving at canada's 3rd largest port.
Our town founded the very first labour #union - our streets ran red with blood - but only 150 years later, we have completely forgotten there was anything to fight for.
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My city was walkable, even when I was a teen.
There were two grocery stores, a hardware store, a music store, two haberdashery-style department stores, two movie theatres. There were specialty shops for eyeglasses, leather, custom denim jeans... You could buy furniture for your house, mops and brooms to clean it up.
All this whilst also supporting a large mall complex filled with franchised chain stores, and local businesses alike.
We were the home of #Nortel, and pioneered a lot of the communications tech you take for granted every day.
All of this - and more - is now gone.
No grocery store, no department store, no specialty shops. A dead mall with no anchors.
We are now a handful of restaurants and shops that cater to visiting tourists from cruise ships arriving at canada's 3rd largest port.
Our town founded the very first labour #union - our streets ran red with blood - but only 150 years later, we have completely forgotten there was anything to fight for.
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My city was walkable, even when I was a teen.
There were two grocery stores, a hardware store, a music store, two haberdashery-style department stores, two movie theatres. There were specialty shops for eyeglasses, leather, custom denim jeans... You could buy furniture for your house, mops and brooms to clean it up.
All this whilst also supporting a large mall complex filled with franchised chain stores, and local businesses alike.
We were the home of #Nortel, and pioneered a lot of the communications tech you take for granted every day.
All of this - and more - is now gone.
No grocery store, no department store, no specialty shops. A dead mall with no anchors.
We are now a handful of restaurants and shops that cater to visiting tourists from cruise ships arriving at canada's 3rd largest port.
Our town founded the very first labour #union - our streets ran red with blood - but only 150 years later, we have completely forgotten there was anything to fight for.
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My city was walkable, even when I was a teen.
There were two grocery stores, a hardware store, a music store, two haberdashery-style department stores, two movie theatres. There were specialty shops for eyeglasses, leather, custom denim jeans... You could buy furniture for your house, mops and brooms to clean it up.
All this whilst also supporting a large mall complex filled with franchised chain stores, and local businesses alike.
We were the home of #Nortel, and pioneered a lot of the communications tech you take for granted every day.
All of this - and more - is now gone.
No grocery store, no department store, no specialty shops. A dead mall with no anchors.
We are now a handful of restaurants and shops that cater to visiting tourists from cruise ships arriving at canada's 3rd largest port.
Our town founded the very first labour #union - our streets ran red with blood - but only 150 years later, we have completely forgotten there was anything to fight for.
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@auxonic I had trouble finding parking there in the late 1990s too. NCC/Greenbelt rules don’t allow for parking structures, so it was a big surprise (or coup) when there was parking space built under Lab 6+.
And getting to/from #Nortel to South Keys was never a trip shorter than 90 minutes on the bus. April 6, 1999 was impossible to get home.
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@auxonic I had trouble finding parking there in the late 1990s too. NCC/Greenbelt rules don’t allow for parking structures, so it was a big surprise (or coup) when there was parking space built under Lab 6+.
And getting to/from #Nortel to South Keys was never a trip shorter than 90 minutes on the bus. April 6, 1999 was impossible to get home.
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@auxonic I had trouble finding parking there in the late 1990s too. NCC/Greenbelt rules don’t allow for parking structures, so it was a big surprise (or coup) when there was parking space built under Lab 6+.
And getting to/from #Nortel to South Keys was never a trip shorter than 90 minutes on the bus. April 6, 1999 was impossible to get home.
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@auxonic I had trouble finding parking there in the late 1990s too. NCC/Greenbelt rules don’t allow for parking structures, so it was a big surprise (or coup) when there was parking space built under Lab 6+.
And getting to/from #Nortel to South Keys was never a trip shorter than 90 minutes on the bus. April 6, 1999 was impossible to get home.
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@auxonic I had trouble finding parking there in the late 1990s too. NCC/Greenbelt rules don’t allow for parking structures, so it was a big surprise (or coup) when there was parking space built under Lab 6+.
And getting to/from #Nortel to South Keys was never a trip shorter than 90 minutes on the bus. April 6, 1999 was impossible to get home.
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Northern Telecom M9316 telephone
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Northern Telecom M9316 telephone
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Northern Telecom M9316 telephone
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Custom programming Aastra Vista 390/480 phones
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Custom programming Aastra Vista 390/480 phones
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Custom programming Aastra Vista 390/480 phones
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Norstar: Unboxing and testing M7324 and T7316 phones
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Norstar: Unboxing and testing M7324 and T7316 phones
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Norstar: Unboxing and testing M7324 and T7316 phones
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Norstar: A history of Northern Telecom's office phone products
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Norstar: A history of Northern Telecom's office phone products
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Norstar: Introduction to office telephone systems
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Norstar: Introduction to office telephone systems
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Norstar 6x16 PBX and M7310 phone disassembly, cleaning
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Norstar 6x16 PBX and M7310 phone disassembly, cleaning
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Norstar: Second phone unboxing + literature pack
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Norstar: Second phone unboxing + literature pack
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Unboxing: Norstar PBX and phone
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Unboxing: Norstar PBX and phone
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Thoughts/rambling of getting my own Nortel phone system
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Thoughts/rambling of getting my own Nortel phone system
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Northern Telecom Meridian M5316 business telephone
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Northern Telecom Meridian M5316 business telephone
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「後果將非常嚴重」：矽谷對AI泡沫破裂的擔憂正在升溫
BBC News 中文 2025-10-20 07:56:00 CST
AI投資熱潮引發泡沫化爭議。專家質疑，由循環融資堆疊的高估值恐釀成經濟風險。OpenAI則強調其價值真實，駁斥純屬泡沫。
https://www.thenewslens.com/article/259770
#AI泡沫 #CoreWeave #ChatGPT #矽谷 #黃仁勳 #微軟 #超微 #Jamie Dimon #Nortel #科技泡沫 #輝達 #川普 #人工智慧 #IMF #Jerry Kaplan #科技 #Anat Admati #Stargate #甲骨文 #阿特曼 #OpenAI #軟銀 -
Spent half the day walking someone through the configuration of a Nortel Passport 6480 (original one not one of the Ericsson built ones) via phone with a person who's English was more broken then my Mandarin.
I need a drink. Scratch that I need a bottle of drinks.
Lesson learned: When a co-worker from 2 decades ago (who's at Telefónica these days) calls and asks you if you could do 'em a favour just ask what the favour is before you say yes.
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I was having a little browse on Usenet for Nortel files. I didn't find the font, but I found Nortel Certification exams!
They require Java, which I'm happy to install as long as it's a version distributed by Sun.
Got the tests working! First question is easy anyway.
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I was having a little browse on Usenet for Nortel files. I didn't find the font, but I found Nortel Certification exams!
They require Java, which I'm happy to install as long as it's a version distributed by Sun.
Got the tests working! First question is easy anyway.
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I was having a little browse on Usenet for Nortel files. I didn't find the font, but I found Nortel Certification exams!
They require Java, which I'm happy to install as long as it's a version distributed by Sun.
Got the tests working! First question is easy anyway.
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I was having a little browse on Usenet for Nortel files. I didn't find the font, but I found Nortel Certification exams!
They require Java, which I'm happy to install as long as it's a version distributed by Sun.
Got the tests working! First question is easy anyway.
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I was having a little browse on Usenet for Nortel files. I didn't find the font, but I found Nortel Certification exams!
They require Java, which I'm happy to install as long as it's a version distributed by Sun.
Got the tests working! First question is easy anyway.
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Today's fun and games - wiring an RJ21 cable set for a Nortel BCM50 PBX. #voip #nortel #nortelBCM
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Today's fun and games - wiring an RJ21 cable set for a Nortel BCM50 PBX. #voip #nortel #nortelBCM
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Today's fun and games - wiring an RJ21 cable set for a Nortel BCM50 PBX. #voip #nortel #nortelBCM
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Today's fun and games - wiring an RJ21 cable set for a Nortel BCM50 PBX. #voip #nortel #nortelBCM
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Today's fun and games - wiring an RJ21 cable set for a Nortel BCM50 PBX. #voip #nortel #nortelBCM
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In 2011, Arıkan started his own small company and took polar codes to Qualcomm and Seagate to see if they had interest in implementing the idea.
“I did prepare some slides and sent them, but none of the US companies were really interested in it,” he says.
He takes the blame for failing to ignite their interest. “I was an academic who did not know how to promote an idea. Perhaps I did not believe in the idea that strongly myself.”
Later, those companies did work on polar codes and got their own patents, but without the same vigor as Huawei.
“If it weren't for the persistent efforts of Huawei researchers,” Arıkan says, “polar codes would not be in 5G today.”
I asked him about the over-the-top Huawei ceremony immortalized in that YouTube video.
He told me that he'd received the invitation to visit in June 2018.
“I said, ‘What is the occasion?’
And they said, ‘Mr. Ren wants to give you an award,’” Arıkan recalls.“I figured that Huawei is very happy because the standard has been made, and polar coding is definitely in it.”
He thought he would show up and there would be a pleasant conversation with the founder and some engineers. He might leave with a plaque.
Arıkan arrived in Shenzhen and stayed at a guest house on campus.
He had tea with Ren and was toasted by executives, including Wen Tong.
But he sensed that something bigger was afoot.“They revealed the program to me one step at a time. I didn't know how big that room would be, what kind of building we would go into. They didn't tell me to dress nicely.” (He did anyway.)
An hour before the ceremony his hosts informed him that perhaps he should prepare a speech.
He hurriedly finished his remarks in the town car on the way to the ceremony.“I have spent the last 30 years at Bilkent University doing research on a variety of problems that culminated in polar codes,” he told the crowd in his halting English.
“Today our roads cross on a happy occasion.”
The spectacle didn't go to Arıkan's head. “They were not honoring me,” he told me as we sat in his office.
“Huawei was saying, ‘We didn't steal this idea from anybody, and here is the originator of the idea.’
There is no question that Huawei is the most technologically sophisticated company in China.
Maybe for the first time in a thousand years, China is showing they are competing head to head with the rest of the world in technology.
The US could live with intellectual property theft, but it is much harder to live with being in competition with an equal power.
“Polar codes itself is not what's important,” he continued. “It is a symbol.
5G is totally different than the internet. It's like a global nervous system.
Huawei is the leading company in 5G. They will be around in 10, 20, 50 years
—you cannot say that about the US tech companies.In the internet era, the US produced a few trillion-dollar companies.
Because of 5G, China will have 10 or more trillion-dollar companies.
Huawei and China now have the lead.”
US companies and the US government can no longer expect to beat China back with threats or indictments, even if they are sometimes warranted.
And it's not just telecom companies like Huawei.
For all the furor at the highest levels over whether the teen-oriented social app TikTok presented security issues, the real threat to American business was that its Chinese engineers had devised an AI-powered recommendation engine that Silicon Valley had not matched.
Arıkan says the experience has led him to respect Huawei
—and to provide a warning to the country where he learned information theory.“I owe a lot to the US,” he says.
“I give you friendly advice:
You have to accept this as the new reality and deal with it accordingly.”To paraphrase Shannon:
No one knows the future. But Huawei and China now have a hand in controlling it.-- excerpts from:
https://www.wired.com/story/huawei-5g-polar-codes-data-breakthrough/by Steven Levy, editor at large at Wired.
Steven has written seven books, including Hackers, Crypto, Artificial Life, Insanely Great (a history of the Macintosh), and, most recently, In the Plex, the definitive story of Google. He attended Temple University and has a master’s degree in literature from Penn State.
#ErdalArıkan #5G #polarcodes
#RenZhengfei #Huawei #ChineseGovernment #ZTE #DOJ #intellectualproperty #Cisco #Nortel
#stevenlevy #Wired -
In 2011, Arıkan started his own small company and took polar codes to Qualcomm and Seagate to see if they had interest in implementing the idea.
“I did prepare some slides and sent them, but none of the US companies were really interested in it,” he says.
He takes the blame for failing to ignite their interest. “I was an academic who did not know how to promote an idea. Perhaps I did not believe in the idea that strongly myself.”
Later, those companies did work on polar codes and got their own patents, but without the same vigor as Huawei.
“If it weren't for the persistent efforts of Huawei researchers,” Arıkan says, “polar codes would not be in 5G today.”
I asked him about the over-the-top Huawei ceremony immortalized in that YouTube video.
He told me that he'd received the invitation to visit in June 2018.
“I said, ‘What is the occasion?’
And they said, ‘Mr. Ren wants to give you an award,’” Arıkan recalls.“I figured that Huawei is very happy because the standard has been made, and polar coding is definitely in it.”
He thought he would show up and there would be a pleasant conversation with the founder and some engineers. He might leave with a plaque.
Arıkan arrived in Shenzhen and stayed at a guest house on campus.
He had tea with Ren and was toasted by executives, including Wen Tong.
But he sensed that something bigger was afoot.“They revealed the program to me one step at a time. I didn't know how big that room would be, what kind of building we would go into. They didn't tell me to dress nicely.” (He did anyway.)
An hour before the ceremony his hosts informed him that perhaps he should prepare a speech.
He hurriedly finished his remarks in the town car on the way to the ceremony.“I have spent the last 30 years at Bilkent University doing research on a variety of problems that culminated in polar codes,” he told the crowd in his halting English.
“Today our roads cross on a happy occasion.”
The spectacle didn't go to Arıkan's head. “They were not honoring me,” he told me as we sat in his office.
“Huawei was saying, ‘We didn't steal this idea from anybody, and here is the originator of the idea.’
There is no question that Huawei is the most technologically sophisticated company in China.
Maybe for the first time in a thousand years, China is showing they are competing head to head with the rest of the world in technology.
The US could live with intellectual property theft, but it is much harder to live with being in competition with an equal power.
“Polar codes itself is not what's important,” he continued. “It is a symbol.
5G is totally different than the internet. It's like a global nervous system.
Huawei is the leading company in 5G. They will be around in 10, 20, 50 years
—you cannot say that about the US tech companies.In the internet era, the US produced a few trillion-dollar companies.
Because of 5G, China will have 10 or more trillion-dollar companies.
Huawei and China now have the lead.”
US companies and the US government can no longer expect to beat China back with threats or indictments, even if they are sometimes warranted.
And it's not just telecom companies like Huawei.
For all the furor at the highest levels over whether the teen-oriented social app TikTok presented security issues, the real threat to American business was that its Chinese engineers had devised an AI-powered recommendation engine that Silicon Valley had not matched.
Arıkan says the experience has led him to respect Huawei
—and to provide a warning to the country where he learned information theory.“I owe a lot to the US,” he says.
“I give you friendly advice:
You have to accept this as the new reality and deal with it accordingly.”To paraphrase Shannon:
No one knows the future. But Huawei and China now have a hand in controlling it.-- excerpts from:
https://www.wired.com/story/huawei-5g-polar-codes-data-breakthrough/by Steven Levy, editor at large at Wired.
Steven has written seven books, including Hackers, Crypto, Artificial Life, Insanely Great (a history of the Macintosh), and, most recently, In the Plex, the definitive story of Google. He attended Temple University and has a master’s degree in literature from Penn State.
#ErdalArıkan #5G #polarcodes
#RenZhengfei #Huawei #ChineseGovernment #ZTE #DOJ #intellectualproperty #Cisco #Nortel
#stevenlevy #Wired -
In 2011, Arıkan started his own small company and took polar codes to Qualcomm and Seagate to see if they had interest in implementing the idea.
“I did prepare some slides and sent them, but none of the US companies were really interested in it,” he says.
He takes the blame for failing to ignite their interest. “I was an academic who did not know how to promote an idea. Perhaps I did not believe in the idea that strongly myself.”
Later, those companies did work on polar codes and got their own patents, but without the same vigor as Huawei.
“If it weren't for the persistent efforts of Huawei researchers,” Arıkan says, “polar codes would not be in 5G today.”
I asked him about the over-the-top Huawei ceremony immortalized in that YouTube video.
He told me that he'd received the invitation to visit in June 2018.
“I said, ‘What is the occasion?’
And they said, ‘Mr. Ren wants to give you an award,’” Arıkan recalls.“I figured that Huawei is very happy because the standard has been made, and polar coding is definitely in it.”
He thought he would show up and there would be a pleasant conversation with the founder and some engineers. He might leave with a plaque.
Arıkan arrived in Shenzhen and stayed at a guest house on campus.
He had tea with Ren and was toasted by executives, including Wen Tong.
But he sensed that something bigger was afoot.“They revealed the program to me one step at a time. I didn't know how big that room would be, what kind of building we would go into. They didn't tell me to dress nicely.” (He did anyway.)
An hour before the ceremony his hosts informed him that perhaps he should prepare a speech.
He hurriedly finished his remarks in the town car on the way to the ceremony.“I have spent the last 30 years at Bilkent University doing research on a variety of problems that culminated in polar codes,” he told the crowd in his halting English.
“Today our roads cross on a happy occasion.”
The spectacle didn't go to Arıkan's head. “They were not honoring me,” he told me as we sat in his office.
“Huawei was saying, ‘We didn't steal this idea from anybody, and here is the originator of the idea.’
There is no question that Huawei is the most technologically sophisticated company in China.
Maybe for the first time in a thousand years, China is showing they are competing head to head with the rest of the world in technology.
The US could live with intellectual property theft, but it is much harder to live with being in competition with an equal power.
“Polar codes itself is not what's important,” he continued. “It is a symbol.
5G is totally different than the internet. It's like a global nervous system.
Huawei is the leading company in 5G. They will be around in 10, 20, 50 years
—you cannot say that about the US tech companies.In the internet era, the US produced a few trillion-dollar companies.
Because of 5G, China will have 10 or more trillion-dollar companies.
Huawei and China now have the lead.”
US companies and the US government can no longer expect to beat China back with threats or indictments, even if they are sometimes warranted.
And it's not just telecom companies like Huawei.
For all the furor at the highest levels over whether the teen-oriented social app TikTok presented security issues, the real threat to American business was that its Chinese engineers had devised an AI-powered recommendation engine that Silicon Valley had not matched.
Arıkan says the experience has led him to respect Huawei
—and to provide a warning to the country where he learned information theory.“I owe a lot to the US,” he says.
“I give you friendly advice:
You have to accept this as the new reality and deal with it accordingly.”To paraphrase Shannon:
No one knows the future. But Huawei and China now have a hand in controlling it.-- excerpts from:
https://www.wired.com/story/huawei-5g-polar-codes-data-breakthrough/by Steven Levy, editor at large at Wired.
Steven has written seven books, including Hackers, Crypto, Artificial Life, Insanely Great (a history of the Macintosh), and, most recently, In the Plex, the definitive story of Google. He attended Temple University and has a master’s degree in literature from Penn State.
#ErdalArıkan #5G #polarcodes
#RenZhengfei #Huawei #ChineseGovernment #ZTE #DOJ #intellectualproperty #Cisco #Nortel
#stevenlevy #Wired -
In 2011, Arıkan started his own small company and took polar codes to Qualcomm and Seagate to see if they had interest in implementing the idea.
“I did prepare some slides and sent them, but none of the US companies were really interested in it,” he says.
He takes the blame for failing to ignite their interest. “I was an academic who did not know how to promote an idea. Perhaps I did not believe in the idea that strongly myself.”
Later, those companies did work on polar codes and got their own patents, but without the same vigor as Huawei.
“If it weren't for the persistent efforts of Huawei researchers,” Arıkan says, “polar codes would not be in 5G today.”
I asked him about the over-the-top Huawei ceremony immortalized in that YouTube video.
He told me that he'd received the invitation to visit in June 2018.
“I said, ‘What is the occasion?’
And they said, ‘Mr. Ren wants to give you an award,’” Arıkan recalls.“I figured that Huawei is very happy because the standard has been made, and polar coding is definitely in it.”
He thought he would show up and there would be a pleasant conversation with the founder and some engineers. He might leave with a plaque.
Arıkan arrived in Shenzhen and stayed at a guest house on campus.
He had tea with Ren and was toasted by executives, including Wen Tong.
But he sensed that something bigger was afoot.“They revealed the program to me one step at a time. I didn't know how big that room would be, what kind of building we would go into. They didn't tell me to dress nicely.” (He did anyway.)
An hour before the ceremony his hosts informed him that perhaps he should prepare a speech.
He hurriedly finished his remarks in the town car on the way to the ceremony.“I have spent the last 30 years at Bilkent University doing research on a variety of problems that culminated in polar codes,” he told the crowd in his halting English.
“Today our roads cross on a happy occasion.”
The spectacle didn't go to Arıkan's head. “They were not honoring me,” he told me as we sat in his office.
“Huawei was saying, ‘We didn't steal this idea from anybody, and here is the originator of the idea.’
There is no question that Huawei is the most technologically sophisticated company in China.
Maybe for the first time in a thousand years, China is showing they are competing head to head with the rest of the world in technology.
The US could live with intellectual property theft, but it is much harder to live with being in competition with an equal power.
“Polar codes itself is not what's important,” he continued. “It is a symbol.
5G is totally different than the internet. It's like a global nervous system.
Huawei is the leading company in 5G. They will be around in 10, 20, 50 years
—you cannot say that about the US tech companies.In the internet era, the US produced a few trillion-dollar companies.
Because of 5G, China will have 10 or more trillion-dollar companies.
Huawei and China now have the lead.”
US companies and the US government can no longer expect to beat China back with threats or indictments, even if they are sometimes warranted.
And it's not just telecom companies like Huawei.
For all the furor at the highest levels over whether the teen-oriented social app TikTok presented security issues, the real threat to American business was that its Chinese engineers had devised an AI-powered recommendation engine that Silicon Valley had not matched.
Arıkan says the experience has led him to respect Huawei
—and to provide a warning to the country where he learned information theory.“I owe a lot to the US,” he says.
“I give you friendly advice:
You have to accept this as the new reality and deal with it accordingly.”To paraphrase Shannon:
No one knows the future. But Huawei and China now have a hand in controlling it.-- excerpts from:
https://www.wired.com/story/huawei-5g-polar-codes-data-breakthrough/by Steven Levy, editor at large at Wired.
Steven has written seven books, including Hackers, Crypto, Artificial Life, Insanely Great (a history of the Macintosh), and, most recently, In the Plex, the definitive story of Google. He attended Temple University and has a master’s degree in literature from Penn State.
#ErdalArıkan #5G #polarcodes
#RenZhengfei #Huawei #ChineseGovernment #ZTE #DOJ #intellectualproperty #Cisco #Nortel
#stevenlevy #Wired -
In 2011, Arıkan started his own small company and took polar codes to Qualcomm and Seagate to see if they had interest in implementing the idea.
“I did prepare some slides and sent them, but none of the US companies were really interested in it,” he says.
He takes the blame for failing to ignite their interest. “I was an academic who did not know how to promote an idea. Perhaps I did not believe in the idea that strongly myself.”
Later, those companies did work on polar codes and got their own patents, but without the same vigor as Huawei.
“If it weren't for the persistent efforts of Huawei researchers,” Arıkan says, “polar codes would not be in 5G today.”
I asked him about the over-the-top Huawei ceremony immortalized in that YouTube video.
He told me that he'd received the invitation to visit in June 2018.
“I said, ‘What is the occasion?’
And they said, ‘Mr. Ren wants to give you an award,’” Arıkan recalls.“I figured that Huawei is very happy because the standard has been made, and polar coding is definitely in it.”
He thought he would show up and there would be a pleasant conversation with the founder and some engineers. He might leave with a plaque.
Arıkan arrived in Shenzhen and stayed at a guest house on campus.
He had tea with Ren and was toasted by executives, including Wen Tong.
But he sensed that something bigger was afoot.“They revealed the program to me one step at a time. I didn't know how big that room would be, what kind of building we would go into. They didn't tell me to dress nicely.” (He did anyway.)
An hour before the ceremony his hosts informed him that perhaps he should prepare a speech.
He hurriedly finished his remarks in the town car on the way to the ceremony.“I have spent the last 30 years at Bilkent University doing research on a variety of problems that culminated in polar codes,” he told the crowd in his halting English.
“Today our roads cross on a happy occasion.”
The spectacle didn't go to Arıkan's head. “They were not honoring me,” he told me as we sat in his office.
“Huawei was saying, ‘We didn't steal this idea from anybody, and here is the originator of the idea.’
There is no question that Huawei is the most technologically sophisticated company in China.
Maybe for the first time in a thousand years, China is showing they are competing head to head with the rest of the world in technology.
The US could live with intellectual property theft, but it is much harder to live with being in competition with an equal power.
“Polar codes itself is not what's important,” he continued. “It is a symbol.
5G is totally different than the internet. It's like a global nervous system.
Huawei is the leading company in 5G. They will be around in 10, 20, 50 years
—you cannot say that about the US tech companies.In the internet era, the US produced a few trillion-dollar companies.
Because of 5G, China will have 10 or more trillion-dollar companies.
Huawei and China now have the lead.”
US companies and the US government can no longer expect to beat China back with threats or indictments, even if they are sometimes warranted.
And it's not just telecom companies like Huawei.
For all the furor at the highest levels over whether the teen-oriented social app TikTok presented security issues, the real threat to American business was that its Chinese engineers had devised an AI-powered recommendation engine that Silicon Valley had not matched.
Arıkan says the experience has led him to respect Huawei
—and to provide a warning to the country where he learned information theory.“I owe a lot to the US,” he says.
“I give you friendly advice:
You have to accept this as the new reality and deal with it accordingly.”To paraphrase Shannon:
No one knows the future. But Huawei and China now have a hand in controlling it.-- excerpts from:
https://www.wired.com/story/huawei-5g-polar-codes-data-breakthrough/by Steven Levy, editor at large at Wired.
Steven has written seven books, including Hackers, Crypto, Artificial Life, Insanely Great (a history of the Macintosh), and, most recently, In the Plex, the definitive story of Google. He attended Temple University and has a master’s degree in literature from Penn State.
#ErdalArıkan #5G #polarcodes
#RenZhengfei #Huawei #ChineseGovernment #ZTE #DOJ #intellectualproperty #Cisco #Nortel
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One advantage Huawei had was the backing of its government.
US and European observers say China packs standards meetings with engineers who can be eyes and ears on the ground.
Rivals also complain that Chinese companies work together in lockstep; even ostensible competitors will set aside differences to support a compatriot business.
For a brief moment in the middle of 2016, it looked as if that national wall of support wouldn't hold.
In a preliminary round of the 5G New Radio standards process, the Chinese company #Lenovo expressed its preference for LDPC, because it was a more familiar technology.
That didn't last long.
Lenovo changed its opinion later that year.Lenovo's founder, Liu Chuanzhi, called Ren Zhengfei to make sure that no offense was taken by the original stance.
Liu and other executives even drafted an open letter that read like a forced confession.“We all agree that Chinese enterprises should be united and not be provoked by outsiders,” Liu and his colleagues wrote. “Stick to it … raise the banner of national industry, and finally defeat the international giants.”
Thus united behind polar codes, Chinese industry prepared to do battle at the final, critical stage
—the November 2016 engineering standards meetings held in Reno, Nevada.The venue was the Peppermill resort and casino. Engineers, hunkered in hotel conference rooms arguing about block codes and channel capacity, had little time to enjoy the craps tables or eucalyptus steam rooms.
Simultaneous meetings to determine a number of standards kept engineers hopping from one conference room to the next, says Michael Thelander, a consultant specializing in wireless telecommunications.
“But polar coding versus LDPC, that was the hot topic,” he says.
On the night of Friday, November 18, the conference room was packed, and the meeting, which began in the evening, turned into a standoff.
Each company presented its work, including its testing results.
“The battle was pretty well drawn, with most of the Western vendors lining up behind LDPC,” says Kevin Krewell, a principal analyst at Tirias Research, who follows 5G.
Some Western companies backed polar codes too, but, significantly, all the Chinese companies did.
“There was no obvious winner in the whole game, but it was very clear that Huawei was not going to back down,” says Thelander, who was on the scene as an observer.
Neither would the LDPC side. “So we can sit there and spend six months fighting over this thing and delay 5G, or we compromise.”
So they did.
The standards committee split the signal-processing standard into two parts.One technology could be used to send the #user #data.
The other would be applied to what was known as the #control #channel, which manages how that data moves.
The first function was assigned to LDPC, and the second to polar codes.
It was well into the wee hours when the agreement was finalized.
Huawei was ecstatic.
But it was not just Huawei's win; it was China's too.
Finally, a Chinese company was getting respect commensurate with its increasingly dominant power in the marketplace.“Huawei-backed polar code entering the 5G standard has a symbolic meaning,” one observer told a reporter at the time.
“This is the first time a Chinese company has entered a telecommunications framework agreement, winning the right to be heard.”
Qualcomm professes to be fine with the result.
“It was very important for Huawei to get something,” says its CEO, Steve Mollenkopf.“Huawei is actually quite good. They are a formidable company. And I think that's one thing that people need to acknowledge.”
#standard #Reed #Hundt #3GPP #5G #New #Radio #standards #Qualcomm #LDPC #Wen #Tong #5G #patents #Arıkan #polar #codes #Alexander #Vardy #Ido #Tal #Technion #Ren #Zhengfei #Huawei #Chinese #government #ZTE #stolen #intellectual #property #Cisco #Department #Justice #Nortel #downloading #documents
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One advantage Huawei had was the backing of its government.
US and European observers say China packs standards meetings with engineers who can be eyes and ears on the ground.
Rivals also complain that Chinese companies work together in lockstep; even ostensible competitors will set aside differences to support a compatriot business.
For a brief moment in the middle of 2016, it looked as if that national wall of support wouldn't hold.
In a preliminary round of the 5G New Radio standards process, the Chinese company #Lenovo expressed its preference for LDPC, because it was a more familiar technology.
That didn't last long.
Lenovo changed its opinion later that year.Lenovo's founder, Liu Chuanzhi, called Ren Zhengfei to make sure that no offense was taken by the original stance.
Liu and other executives even drafted an open letter that read like a forced confession.“We all agree that Chinese enterprises should be united and not be provoked by outsiders,” Liu and his colleagues wrote. “Stick to it … raise the banner of national industry, and finally defeat the international giants.”
Thus united behind polar codes, Chinese industry prepared to do battle at the final, critical stage
—the November 2016 engineering standards meetings held in Reno, Nevada.The venue was the Peppermill resort and casino. Engineers, hunkered in hotel conference rooms arguing about block codes and channel capacity, had little time to enjoy the craps tables or eucalyptus steam rooms.
Simultaneous meetings to determine a number of standards kept engineers hopping from one conference room to the next, says Michael Thelander, a consultant specializing in wireless telecommunications.
“But polar coding versus LDPC, that was the hot topic,” he says.
On the night of Friday, November 18, the conference room was packed, and the meeting, which began in the evening, turned into a standoff.
Each company presented its work, including its testing results.
“The battle was pretty well drawn, with most of the Western vendors lining up behind LDPC,” says Kevin Krewell, a principal analyst at Tirias Research, who follows 5G.
Some Western companies backed polar codes too, but, significantly, all the Chinese companies did.
“There was no obvious winner in the whole game, but it was very clear that Huawei was not going to back down,” says Thelander, who was on the scene as an observer.
Neither would the LDPC side. “So we can sit there and spend six months fighting over this thing and delay 5G, or we compromise.”
So they did.
The standards committee split the signal-processing standard into two parts.One technology could be used to send the #user #data.
The other would be applied to what was known as the #control #channel, which manages how that data moves.
The first function was assigned to LDPC, and the second to polar codes.
It was well into the wee hours when the agreement was finalized.
Huawei was ecstatic.
But it was not just Huawei's win; it was China's too.
Finally, a Chinese company was getting respect commensurate with its increasingly dominant power in the marketplace.“Huawei-backed polar code entering the 5G standard has a symbolic meaning,” one observer told a reporter at the time.
“This is the first time a Chinese company has entered a telecommunications framework agreement, winning the right to be heard.”
Qualcomm professes to be fine with the result.
“It was very important for Huawei to get something,” says its CEO, Steve Mollenkopf.“Huawei is actually quite good. They are a formidable company. And I think that's one thing that people need to acknowledge.”
#standard #Reed #Hundt #3GPP #5G #New #Radio #standards #Qualcomm #LDPC #Wen #Tong #5G #patents #Arıkan #polar #codes #Alexander #Vardy #Ido #Tal #Technion #Ren #Zhengfei #Huawei #Chinese #government #ZTE #stolen #intellectual #property #Cisco #Department #Justice #Nortel #downloading #documents
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One advantage Huawei had was the backing of its government.
US and European observers say China packs standards meetings with engineers who can be eyes and ears on the ground.
Rivals also complain that Chinese companies work together in lockstep; even ostensible competitors will set aside differences to support a compatriot business.
For a brief moment in the middle of 2016, it looked as if that national wall of support wouldn't hold.
In a preliminary round of the 5G New Radio standards process, the Chinese company #Lenovo expressed its preference for LDPC, because it was a more familiar technology.
That didn't last long.
Lenovo changed its opinion later that year.Lenovo's founder, Liu Chuanzhi, called Ren Zhengfei to make sure that no offense was taken by the original stance.
Liu and other executives even drafted an open letter that read like a forced confession.“We all agree that Chinese enterprises should be united and not be provoked by outsiders,” Liu and his colleagues wrote. “Stick to it … raise the banner of national industry, and finally defeat the international giants.”
Thus united behind polar codes, Chinese industry prepared to do battle at the final, critical stage
—the November 2016 engineering standards meetings held in Reno, Nevada.The venue was the Peppermill resort and casino. Engineers, hunkered in hotel conference rooms arguing about block codes and channel capacity, had little time to enjoy the craps tables or eucalyptus steam rooms.
Simultaneous meetings to determine a number of standards kept engineers hopping from one conference room to the next, says Michael Thelander, a consultant specializing in wireless telecommunications.
“But polar coding versus LDPC, that was the hot topic,” he says.
On the night of Friday, November 18, the conference room was packed, and the meeting, which began in the evening, turned into a standoff.
Each company presented its work, including its testing results.
“The battle was pretty well drawn, with most of the Western vendors lining up behind LDPC,” says Kevin Krewell, a principal analyst at Tirias Research, who follows 5G.
Some Western companies backed polar codes too, but, significantly, all the Chinese companies did.
“There was no obvious winner in the whole game, but it was very clear that Huawei was not going to back down,” says Thelander, who was on the scene as an observer.
Neither would the LDPC side. “So we can sit there and spend six months fighting over this thing and delay 5G, or we compromise.”
So they did.
The standards committee split the signal-processing standard into two parts.One technology could be used to send the #user #data.
The other would be applied to what was known as the #control #channel, which manages how that data moves.
The first function was assigned to LDPC, and the second to polar codes.
It was well into the wee hours when the agreement was finalized.
Huawei was ecstatic.
But it was not just Huawei's win; it was China's too.
Finally, a Chinese company was getting respect commensurate with its increasingly dominant power in the marketplace.“Huawei-backed polar code entering the 5G standard has a symbolic meaning,” one observer told a reporter at the time.
“This is the first time a Chinese company has entered a telecommunications framework agreement, winning the right to be heard.”
Qualcomm professes to be fine with the result.
“It was very important for Huawei to get something,” says its CEO, Steve Mollenkopf.“Huawei is actually quite good. They are a formidable company. And I think that's one thing that people need to acknowledge.”
#standard #Reed #Hundt #3GPP #5G #New #Radio #standards #Qualcomm #LDPC #Wen #Tong #5G #patents #Arıkan #polar #codes #Alexander #Vardy #Ido #Tal #Technion #Ren #Zhengfei #Huawei #Chinese #government #ZTE #stolen #intellectual #property #Cisco #Department #Justice #Nortel #downloading #documents
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One advantage Huawei had was the backing of its government.
US and European observers say China packs standards meetings with engineers who can be eyes and ears on the ground.
Rivals also complain that Chinese companies work together in lockstep; even ostensible competitors will set aside differences to support a compatriot business.
For a brief moment in the middle of 2016, it looked as if that national wall of support wouldn't hold.
In a preliminary round of the 5G New Radio standards process, the Chinese company #Lenovo expressed its preference for LDPC, because it was a more familiar technology.
That didn't last long.
Lenovo changed its opinion later that year.Lenovo's founder, Liu Chuanzhi, called Ren Zhengfei to make sure that no offense was taken by the original stance.
Liu and other executives even drafted an open letter that read like a forced confession.“We all agree that Chinese enterprises should be united and not be provoked by outsiders,” Liu and his colleagues wrote. “Stick to it … raise the banner of national industry, and finally defeat the international giants.”
Thus united behind polar codes, Chinese industry prepared to do battle at the final, critical stage
—the November 2016 engineering standards meetings held in Reno, Nevada.The venue was the Peppermill resort and casino. Engineers, hunkered in hotel conference rooms arguing about block codes and channel capacity, had little time to enjoy the craps tables or eucalyptus steam rooms.
Simultaneous meetings to determine a number of standards kept engineers hopping from one conference room to the next, says Michael Thelander, a consultant specializing in wireless telecommunications.
“But polar coding versus LDPC, that was the hot topic,” he says.
On the night of Friday, November 18, the conference room was packed, and the meeting, which began in the evening, turned into a standoff.
Each company presented its work, including its testing results.
“The battle was pretty well drawn, with most of the Western vendors lining up behind LDPC,” says Kevin Krewell, a principal analyst at Tirias Research, who follows 5G.
Some Western companies backed polar codes too, but, significantly, all the Chinese companies did.
“There was no obvious winner in the whole game, but it was very clear that Huawei was not going to back down,” says Thelander, who was on the scene as an observer.
Neither would the LDPC side. “So we can sit there and spend six months fighting over this thing and delay 5G, or we compromise.”
So they did.
The standards committee split the signal-processing standard into two parts.One technology could be used to send the #user #data.
The other would be applied to what was known as the #control #channel, which manages how that data moves.
The first function was assigned to LDPC, and the second to polar codes.
It was well into the wee hours when the agreement was finalized.
Huawei was ecstatic.
But it was not just Huawei's win; it was China's too.
Finally, a Chinese company was getting respect commensurate with its increasingly dominant power in the marketplace.“Huawei-backed polar code entering the 5G standard has a symbolic meaning,” one observer told a reporter at the time.
“This is the first time a Chinese company has entered a telecommunications framework agreement, winning the right to be heard.”
Qualcomm professes to be fine with the result.
“It was very important for Huawei to get something,” says its CEO, Steve Mollenkopf.“Huawei is actually quite good. They are a formidable company. And I think that's one thing that people need to acknowledge.”
#standard #Reed #Hundt #3GPP #5G #New #Radio #standards #Qualcomm #LDPC #Wen #Tong #5G #patents #Arıkan #polar #codes #Alexander #Vardy #Ido #Tal #Technion #Ren #Zhengfei #Huawei #Chinese #government #ZTE #stolen #intellectual #property #Cisco #Department #Justice #Nortel #downloading #documents
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One advantage Huawei had was the backing of its government.
US and European observers say China packs standards meetings with engineers who can be eyes and ears on the ground.
Rivals also complain that Chinese companies work together in lockstep; even ostensible competitors will set aside differences to support a compatriot business.
For a brief moment in the middle of 2016, it looked as if that national wall of support wouldn't hold.
In a preliminary round of the 5G New Radio standards process, the Chinese company #Lenovo expressed its preference for LDPC, because it was a more familiar technology.
That didn't last long.
Lenovo changed its opinion later that year.Lenovo's founder, Liu Chuanzhi, called Ren Zhengfei to make sure that no offense was taken by the original stance.
Liu and other executives even drafted an open letter that read like a forced confession.“We all agree that Chinese enterprises should be united and not be provoked by outsiders,” Liu and his colleagues wrote. “Stick to it … raise the banner of national industry, and finally defeat the international giants.”
Thus united behind polar codes, Chinese industry prepared to do battle at the final, critical stage
—the November 2016 engineering standards meetings held in Reno, Nevada.The venue was the Peppermill resort and casino. Engineers, hunkered in hotel conference rooms arguing about block codes and channel capacity, had little time to enjoy the craps tables or eucalyptus steam rooms.
Simultaneous meetings to determine a number of standards kept engineers hopping from one conference room to the next, says Michael Thelander, a consultant specializing in wireless telecommunications.
“But polar coding versus LDPC, that was the hot topic,” he says.
On the night of Friday, November 18, the conference room was packed, and the meeting, which began in the evening, turned into a standoff.
Each company presented its work, including its testing results.
“The battle was pretty well drawn, with most of the Western vendors lining up behind LDPC,” says Kevin Krewell, a principal analyst at Tirias Research, who follows 5G.
Some Western companies backed polar codes too, but, significantly, all the Chinese companies did.
“There was no obvious winner in the whole game, but it was very clear that Huawei was not going to back down,” says Thelander, who was on the scene as an observer.
Neither would the LDPC side. “So we can sit there and spend six months fighting over this thing and delay 5G, or we compromise.”
So they did.
The standards committee split the signal-processing standard into two parts.One technology could be used to send the #user #data.
The other would be applied to what was known as the #control #channel, which manages how that data moves.
The first function was assigned to LDPC, and the second to polar codes.
It was well into the wee hours when the agreement was finalized.
Huawei was ecstatic.
But it was not just Huawei's win; it was China's too.
Finally, a Chinese company was getting respect commensurate with its increasingly dominant power in the marketplace.“Huawei-backed polar code entering the 5G standard has a symbolic meaning,” one observer told a reporter at the time.
“This is the first time a Chinese company has entered a telecommunications framework agreement, winning the right to be heard.”
Qualcomm professes to be fine with the result.
“It was very important for Huawei to get something,” says its CEO, Steve Mollenkopf.“Huawei is actually quite good. They are a formidable company. And I think that's one thing that people need to acknowledge.”
#standard #Reed #Hundt #3GPP #5G #New #Radio #standards #Qualcomm #LDPC #Wen #Tong #5G #patents #Arıkan #polar #codes #Alexander #Vardy #Ido #Tal #Technion #Ren #Zhengfei #Huawei #Chinese #government #ZTE #stolen #intellectual #property #Cisco #Department #Justice #Nortel #downloading #documents
