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The Impact of AI on Skilled Worker Jobs — We Are Not Immune

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  Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly reshaping – and in some case, re-inventing - the labour market — not just in routine roles but also in highly skilled professions. It’s interesting to see that organisations like J.P. Morgan to tech consultancies are already seeing AI influence job growth patterns and the very nature of professional work. This is across most industries, including AV industry. What The Major Players Are Saying If we   have a look at a few statistics, J.P. Morgan’s Global Research highlights that AI has already begun to affect employment patterns , particularly among college graduates in fields tied to technology and design. Their research shows that majors such as computer engineering, graphic design, and industrial engineering — all foundational to network and AV systems design — have experienced rising unemployment rates , suggesting that AI exposure may be disrupting demand for traditional roles. In some tech subsectors like computer systems ...
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Are You Ready for AI Powered AV Design?

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  Like many AV manufacturers and integrators, our engineers and designers have traditionally used manual processes to create network and AV system designs for our clients. These include the things you’d expect - network schematics, signal flow diagrams, the calculation of network bandwidth and compatibility requirements, and even the compilation Bills of Materials.  But in order to produce these, they have to go through laborious diagrammatical and spreadsheet work, not to mention the technicians having to troubleshoot systems reactively when failures occurred.   These practices, although effective till now, can limit traditional AV project management methodologies. They are, essentially, labour-intensive methods and so can result in reducing organisational capability, add human error, and can produce bottlenecks that raise costs and delay project completion.   These limitations are now being addressed by the development of AI-enhanced AV solutions, which use...
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From FTTH to FTTR - The Upgrade Delivering Lightning-Fast WiFi in Every Room

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  The Internet connection is now just as necessary as power in our homes, given the explosion of our digital usage. Every room in the house is experiencing an increase in the need for broadband due to teleworking, ultra high definition streaming, online gaming, and linked devices. This demand is being met by a new technology: Fibre To The Room, or FTTR.     Fibre-to-the-room (FTTR) technology offers ultra-fast, low-latency internet access by extending fibre-optic cables straight to each room in a house or building. This technology optimizes Wi-Fi performance and improves the support for high-bandwidth in-home applications. Throughout the whole facility, it offers clients a smooth, excellent online experience.   FTTR – The NextGen technology for the home and office   Thanks to the FTTR network, each room benefits from a wired optical connection, ensuring an even distribution of very high-speed broadband. FTTR means you can take full advantage of 4K st...
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What Is An IPTV Headend...And Why Do You Need It?

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  Signals from various sources, including satellite feeds, local broadcasts, and even pre-recorded content, are received by digital headends. After that, these signals are processed for error correction, encryption, and compression, if needed, and translated into a digital format. In order to facilitate effective transmission across multiple platforms, this procedure frequently entails transcoding the received video into MPEG-2 or MPEG-4 standards. So essentially its an integrated system of receivers for terrestrial, satellite, and internet TV signals along with modulators, encoders, and CAM modules is called an IPTV or Digital Headend,   also sometimes called a digital   headend station.   All of these elements are usually contained in a single, small unit in commercial, hospitality or similar TV systems. The installation of the aerial and/or satellite dish receiver which permits the reception of both DVB-T and DVB-S signals, is also a crucial component of the...
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GPON vs EPON vs xGPON – Which one is for me?

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  GPON vs EPON vs xGPON – Which one is for me?   Many network engineers find it difficult to navigate all the new technology, equipment, software, and networks that are available due to the constantly changing technologies in the telecom industry. Understanding Passive Optical Network (PON) technologies, such as GPON, EPON, and xPON, is crucial since they all employ distinct standards for hardware and software integration with differing upstream and downstream speeds. What benefits, the hardware needed for each, and practical application situations, is useful to know, in order to help you select the best PON solution for your requirements! This basic overview might help to guide you in the right direction of which would be more optimal for your requirements.   So What is PON?   Passive Optical Networking (PON) is a broadband technology that connects telecommunication networks to multiple users.   In a PON system, data is sent upstream by indi...
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Fibre-Fueled Hospitality: How GPON is Powering the Connected Guest Experience

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       Whatever your gig in the hospitality design and build space: infrastructure planner, IT manager, design consultant or anything in-between, you probably know (or you should) that in hotels and managed apartment buildings, connectivity is no longer a “nice-to-have” — it should be regarded as mission-critical infrastructure. The requirements that we see coming in for hotel projects are clear with regard to access connectivity, as guest expectations are evolving faster than ever: It is simply the case that today’s traveller sees fast, reliable internet as essential as hot water or air conditioning. Residents in managed apartments expect seamless connectivity for work, entertainment, and smart living. Falling short on any these expectations can mean poor reviews, lost bookings, and diminished brand value. So how can you guarantee guests and residents flawless Wi-Fi, IPTV, and smart services?   Operators need to provide secure, scalable, and cost-efficient ...
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AVoIP, Industry Buzzwords and Market Hype – Cutting Through the Cr*p to Focus on What’s Important.

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  Don’t you just love industry buzzwords. AV over IP. Networked AV.   Networked Video. IPTV on the LAN. Even HDMI over Ethernet. All pretty much the same thing expressed in different ways. Every vendor tries to coin ‘their’ phrase – a slightly different take on a current technology trend or ‘buzz-term’ that’s riding high in the industry. It’s easy to be taken in by the hype, publicity and industry noise with this stuff, but whatever anyone wants to call it, distributing AV signals over an IT network is where things have been going for a long time, whether you like it or not. So sorting out the ‘FUD’ (fear, uncertainty, doubt) factor, or even worse that FOMO (fear of missing out) feeling, is crucial so you can then focus on what’s actually important in all this hyperbole. So maybe this will perhaps simplify things..   This is Nothing New Many of the challenges faced in today’s AV world – not only by AV integrators but also IT managers – have been seen in the past m...
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