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05/16/2012
Evercor Offers LTE Public-Safety Solution
Cassidian, an EADS company, and Alcatel-Lucent teamed to launch “Evercor,” a product based on 4G LTE technology that enables video, data and other media designed to improve the way the security professionals serve and protect their communities. Evercor integrates Alcatel-Lucent’s 4G LTE mobile broadband with TETRA-based systems to form the first end-to-end integrated LTE […]
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05/15/2012
Harmonic Intros File-Based Transcoder
The ProMedia Xpress high-performance file-based transcoder from Harmonic Inc. uses the company’s H.264 codec technology to deliver better video quality without impeding transcoding speeds. “Facilitating cost-effective, faster-than-real-time transcoding of broadcast-quality content for multiscreen VOD delivery to mobile devices, PCs and connected TVs, ProMedia Xpress allows operators and media companies to launch new services efficiently without […]
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05/15/2012
P-Chip Powers Small-Cell/Macro-Cell LTE Antennas
Ubidyne, a developer of wireless dynamic digital active antenna technology, will be showing off its chip-based power amplifier solution for active antenna design at the LTE Summit later this month in Barcelona. The company says its P-Chip powers its latest micro-radio transceiver and delivers scalable output power solutions for both small-cell and macro-cell active antennas. […]
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05/15/2012
ACA To FCC: OVDs Are Not MVPDs
In a filing to the Federal Communications Commission’s Media Bureau, the American Cable Association (ACA) said that “continuing to refrain from classifying pure-play online video distributors (OVDs) as Multichannel Video Programming Distributors (MVPDs) is in accord with the intent, language and structure of the law, and with longstanding congressional and agency precedent that carefully separated […]
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05/15/2012
No More Peaceful Transatlantic Flights?
Beyond the technical reasons for not allowing cellphone use in-flight in the United States is that passengers and crew alike have made it clear the skies are the last escape they have from constant conversation. That may be changing, now that Virgin Atlantic is allowing flyers to make and receive phone calls in the air […]
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05/15/2012
LightSquared’s Bankruptcy Setback
There was no thunder or lightning yesterday afternoon when beleaguered satellite-broadband wannabe LightSquared filed for Chapter 11, because nearly everyone expected it (for additional information, click here). The filing was made in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York, and a recognition proceeding will be filed in the Superior Court of […]