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08/07/2012
Inside The Beltway 08/07/12
In comments filed by the American Cable Association, the group encouraged the Federal Communications Commission “to fix identified problems with the current Universal Service Fund (USF) contribution system while continuing to collect data and information on the harms and benefits of expanding the base to include broadband before deciding on the best course of action […]
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08/07/2012
Deals Of The Day 08/07/12
U.K.-based mobile service providers were among the earliest in the world to embrace outsourced network operations, and that market remains one of the biggest and most advanced for managed-service opportunities. Notes ABI Research’s Jim Eller, “Some of the biggest multi-year managed services contracts in the U.K. are expiring this year, and the fight is on […]
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08/07/2012
Survey Sez 08/07/12
According to a recent Thales survey of 4,000 business and IT managers, 82 percent of organizations already transfer, or plan to transfer, sensitive or confidential data into the cloud. However, nearly 40 percent admitted their “security posture” has been reduced as a result, and nearly two thirds of those polled are depending on their service […]
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08/07/2012
New Stuff 08/07/12
The LightPulse 16Gb Fibre Channel (16GFC) Host Bus Adapter (HBA) technology from Emulex now is available for use with EMC storage arrays through the EMC Select program. Designed for the next generation of high-density cloud, virtualization and business critical applications, the 16GFC LPe16000-E and LPe16002-E adapters reportedly can deliver more than a million IOPS on […]
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08/06/2012
Global Connections 08/06/12
Microsoft and Chinese IPTV provider PPTV signed a strategic partnership memorandum today to launch the PPTV Asia TV Networks (ATN) platform on Windows Azure. The deal has PPTV adopting Windows Azure as the core infrastructure platform to provide a cloud-based Internet TV solution; moving forward, it will work with Microsoft on online TV, a media […]
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08/06/2012
Inside The Beltway 08/06/12
At its open meeting last Friday, the Federal Communications Commission adopted a Second Report and Order it says will promote further deployment of mobile broadband service and continue its reform of rules governing the use of microwave frequencies for wireless backhaul as part of the FCC’s Broadband Acceleration Initiative ?and its regulatory reform agenda by […]