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05/10/2012
Updated White-Spaces Spec Coming Soon
Weightless, the U.K.-based body behind the Weightless machine-to-machine (M2M) communications standard for white-space spectrum, released some details of its first plenary session at The Technology Partnership in Melbourn near Cambridge. “We’re now seeing the future unfolding in front of us,” commented CEO William Webb. "While regulatory, security, testing and MAC/PHY subgroups might a little dry […]
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05/10/2012
ADVA, University Team For First-Time SDN Testbed
In what the company says is an industry first, ADVA Optical Networking “successfully implemented new OpenFlow technology that can dynamically control wavelength-switched optical networks.” The implementation is based on the FSP 3000 and was developed in cooperation with the University of Essex in Germany as part of the OFELIA project. OFELIA provides researchers with a […]
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05/09/2012
Live From CTIA: The Commish And Spectrum-Crunch Ideas
NEW ORLEANS — Following the strains of “When The Saints Go Marching In,” played by Trombone Shorty and The Band, CTIA President/CEO Steve Largent was preaching to the choir when he said, “Wireless is the game changer.” The United States now stands at 105-percent wireless penetration, he added, translating into 332 million customer connections. “Getting […]
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05/09/2012
OLS Suite Offers Copper Alternative
The GPON-based FiberLAN Optical LAN Solution (OLS) suite from Zhone Technologies supports delivery to multi-level, multi-unit commercial and industrial complexes via fiber – an alternate to existing copper-based Ethernet Switch Local Area Networking (LAN) infrastructure. According to CMO Brian Caskey, “Service providers needed a simpler, faster, cost-effective, environmentally-friendly alternative to existing copper-based Ethernet Switched LAN […]
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05/09/2012
Taqua Gears Up For VoWiFi, VoLTE
At the ongoing International CTIA Wireless 2012 show in New Orleans, Taqua LLC, a supplier of convergence switching and small-cell deployment solutions, announced its TCS6100 Small Cell Convergence core has been upgraded to enable deployment of several million subscribers while offering a new set of Voice over Wi-Fi (VoWiFi) and Voice over LTE (VoLTE) via a Circuit Switch […]
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05/09/2012
DragonWave Boosts Modulation Modes
Canada’s DragonWave Inc., a global supplier of packet microwave radio systems for mobile and access networks, has released higher-modulation modes of as much as 2048 QAM on its Horizon packet microwave products. “This higher modulation allows the radios to transport up to 37-percent more data through existing microwave channels, which significantly improves spectral efficiency and, […]