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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 […]
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05/15/2012
The Video-Conferencing Bandwidth Crunch
More than half of Interop attendees surveyed at last week’s gathering expect video-conferencing to consume 40 percent of their total network traffic within 12 months, while reserving only 10 percent of network capacity for video. According to the sixth annual study released by Network Instruments, the onsite survey of 104 network engineers, IT managers and […]
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05/14/2012
Satellite Services Set For 1M Users
The eighth edition of NSR’s Mobile Satellite Services report projects the sector will sustain its current robust growth by serving users with a mix of MSS, fixed satellite service (FSS) and high-throughput satellites (HTS)-based solutions. Despite recent results that were less than stellar in the satellite handheld business, the mobile-satellite market will reach such milestones […]
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05/14/2012
TSC17x/18x STB SoC Family Debuts In Boston
Entropic Communications Inc., a provider of semiconductor solutions for the?connected home, says its latest generation of set-top box (STB) system-on-a-chip (SoC) solutions offer cable and IP markets a dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 processors with integrated NEON technology. "As a dedicated pure-play platform semiconductor company in the connected home market, Entropic is focused on delivering complete STB […]
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05/14/2012
New Bandwidth Buy/Sell Platform
Epsilon Capacity Exchange (eCX), a new bandwidth-trading platform, initially will be available to more than 400 network operators worldwide that currently are pre-connected to the Epsilon Global Network Exchange. The service will be delivered by the eCX trading platform and portal, and facilitated by the Epsilon Global Network Exchange (eGNE). It incorporates:? >> Standardized […]