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06/04/2012
GE Switch Includes More IPv4 Business Capabilities
The VSC7431, what Vitesse Semiconductor Corporation says is “the industry’s lowest power and scalable 28-port Gigabit Ethernet (GE) switch with Layer 3 (L3) managed routing capabilities," is the latest addition to the company’s E-StaX-III Enterprise Ethernet switch family. Targeting high-performance small and medium-sized enterprise network applications, the VSC7431 reportedly uses 50-percent less power while integrating […]
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06/01/2012
Carriers Gear Up For 2012 Hurricane Season
Today marks the official start of the 2012 U.S. hurricane season, and communications carriers are ramping up to make sure networks continue operation if and when high winds and rain hit their areas. The latest forecast for the 2012 hurricane season predicts as many as 15 named tropical storms and as many as 11 hurricanes […]
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06/01/2012
Office Unified Communications Go Mobile
SimpleSignal, Inc., a cloud-based unified-communications/collaboration provider for business, now has a mobile video communications and conferencing application it says works seamlessly across a variety of mobile, desktop and telepresence/video-enabled devices via a Wi-Fi connection or a 3G/4G network. “The seamless integration of iOS and Android operating systems into SimpleSignal’s unified-communications platform, coupled with the mobile […]
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06/01/2012
Mobile Infrastructure: Bad News And Good News
The global 2G, 3G, and 4G equipment market decreased 14 percent, closing in at a touch less than $10 billion in 1Q12. According to research firm Infonetics, this follows a 8-percent increase in 4Q11. "The overall mobile infrastructure market took a beating in the first quarter of 2012," notes Stéphane Téral, principal analyst/Mobile Infrastructure and […]
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06/01/2012
Broadcom 5G Wi-Fi Added To Skyworks Products
Mass.-based semiconductor manufacturer Skyworks Solutions Inc. has kicked up volume production of several high-performance RF solutions supporting Broadcom’s 5G Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11ac) chips, including minicards for access points, routers and customer premise equipment Broadcom’s new 5G Wi-Fi chips deliver Ethernet-quality speeds three times faster and six times more power efficiently than previous generations of Wi-Fi […]
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06/01/2012
Networking Tech Part Of Patent Portfolio Offering
A license under the Wireless Mesh Patent Portfolio of inventions owned by SIPCO LLC and IntusIQ (the former IPCO LLC) now is available from MPEG LA (for more information, click here). MPEG LA manages licensing programs consisting of 6,000 patents in 74 countries with 159 licensors and some 5,000 licensees. The company says the Wireless […]