Network Fundamentals

Just as Bell Labs pioneered the first 100 years in the field of communications, we are preparing to lead the next 100 years of networking innovation. Bell Labs goes further than building better, more-efficient wireless and optical systems. It researches the fundamental technologies that will define networking for decades to come.

As we move into the 6G era, the network is becoming more than a mechanism for transmitting information. It is becoming a means of instilling the capabilities of sense, understanding and action into the technologies we use in everyday life.

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• See how Bell Labs is researching the fundamental technologies that will define networking for a decade to come.
• Learn how Bell Labs is transforming what networks of the future can do with 6G.
  

Research Lab Leader

Head of Network Systems and Security Research

Group Leader, Sensing & Communication ASICs Research

Head of Network Architecture Research Lab

Lab Leader, Smart Optical Fabric & Devices

Head, Radio Systems Research group

In this talk at the Science in the Age of Experience conference, Nokia Bell Labs researcher Shahriar Shahramian shows how, over the last 75 years, engineers have been conquering the electromagnetic spectrum. Those efforts are culminating with 6G, which will be the first wireless technology to fuse the digital and physical worlds.

As part of the Verge’s in-depth look at the role of fiber optics in the internet, Bell Labs’ Tod Sizer and Vivian Chen describe the relentless pursuit of optical innovation necessary to keep pace with the world’s insatiable appetite for capacity.

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