Telecommunications Past to Future | Engineer Brendan Kearns

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Telecommunications Past to Future | Engineer Brendan Kearns

Engineers Journal AMPLIFIED

29 minutes

2 weeks ago

Telecommunications Past to Future | Engineer Brendan Kearns

Brendan Kearns is a former chartered engineer at eircom who shares remarkable stories from our connected world in his new book Evolution of Telecommunications.

From Bell's accidental discovery of the telephone while trying to improve telegraph systems to Ireland's transformation from 50% manual exchanges in 1979 to today's fiber networks, Brendan reveals the engineering breakthroughs that built modern communications. His comprehensive guide traces the path from Morse code to AI and quantum computing, sharing tales of underwater cable failures that led to heat equation breakthroughs, why an undertaker invented automatic switching, and the cybersecurity challenges facing today's networks.

THINGS WE SPOKE ABOUT

How the telephone was accidentally invented
Why Ireland's telephone infrastructure was decades behind in 1979
The engineering challenges of laying the first transatlantic cables
How automatic telephone switches were invented by an undertaker
Why successful engineering leadership requires small collaborative teams
The cybersecurity threats facing modern telecom networks

Connect with Brendan:

Book: "Evolution of Telecommunications" available on Amazon.ie
https://www.amazon.ie/EVOLUTION-TELECOMMUNICATIONS-Brendan-Michael-Kearns/dp/1068201509

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QUOTES

We engineers, we're very inquisitive people. We do like to break things from time to time. That's necessary, but then you have to fix them afterwards. - Brendan Kearns
Sometimes practice can come before theory. You can't wait for the theory to be written first. You gotta do things to make things happen. - Brendan Kearns
The telephone was invented by Bell in 1876, but he wasn't trying to invent the phone - he was trying to improve the telegraph. - Brendan Kearns
Engineering is the art of giving something flesh, in my opinion. - Brendan Kearns
I always like to work on small teams, no more than four or five people, where everybody is completely engaged and where everybody is honest with what they know and don't know. - Brendan Kearns

KEYWORDS
#telecommunications, #engineering, #innovation, #cybersecurity, #career-transition