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Alan Weissberger

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Santa Clara
As seen in: IEEE ComSoc Technology Blog, Medium, IEEE, Kiplinger, SDxCentral, IEEE Wireless Communications, Inkl, Viodi View
Covers:  Telecom, data center and enterprise networking, market assessment, AI and cloud.
Tech and financial journalist. Research Scholar at SCU School of Engineering

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Alan J Weissberger, ScD EE MIT, is the Content Manager for the IEEE Techblog (techblog.comsoc.org which was previously community.comsoc.org). He's also a principal author at Viodi.com, Manager and Moderator of the IEEE Member Discussion list, North American Correspondent for the IEEE Global Communications Newsletter, Chairman Emeritus and Advisor to IEEE ComSocSCV.

Alan was the founder and past Chairman of the IEEE Silicon Valley Technology History committee (2013-2015). He is an IEEE Sr Li…

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Impact of optical component shortages & bottlenecks explained + Hyperscaler’s CAPEX

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By Alan Weissberger
| IEEE ComSoc Technology Blog
LightCounting’s August 2026 market and component report  highlights how severe physical supply shortages for high-speed optical components are reshaping data-center architectures and forcing cloud builders to expand their vendor pools from the traditional 2-3 suppliers up to 5-7 specialized hardware manufacturers. Qualifying and managing all of them is a new challenge.
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Huge Risks for the proposed $500B AI Investments from Giant Wall Street firms

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By Alan Weissberger
| IEEE ComSoc Technology Blog
Disclaimer: Perplexity.ai was used for research and analysis in this article. …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. Executive Summary: This past Monday, six giant Wall Street asset managers, private-equity firms and banks announced an effort to raise $500 billion to keep fueling the A.I. boom by financing more data centers, power plants and chips.
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Telefónica incorporates AI for businesses voice communications vs. 3GPP/ITU specs

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By Alan Weissberger
| IEEE ComSoc Technology Blog
Executive Summary: Telefónica España made an announcement this week which indicates that Voice could be an important AI monetization opportunity for telcos. The Spain based telecom group is positioning its business voice portfolio around a key differentiator: the ability to embed AI-enabled capabilities directly into conventional fixed and mobile telephony, without requiring enterprises to migrate users or workflows to a separate communications platform.
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