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02/29/2012
From Barcelona: Some Genachowski Keynote Snippets
All broadband eyes are focused on Barcelona this week, home to the annual GSMA Mobile World Congress. One of the kickoff speakers was FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski, who started his comments with a list of facts: >> In the United States, mobile ecommerce sales surged to $6.7 billion in 2011, a 91-percent increase from 2010. […]
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02/29/2012
App Suite Pushes New Cross-Spectrum Enterprise Cash
Metaswitch Networks’ Accession application suite works across fixed, Wi-Fi, 3G and 4G networks, enabling operators to deliver services that “move between whichever device and infrastructure best serves the context of the communications call or session,” the company adds. The portfolio is made up initially of two core product lines: >> The Accession IMT/IMX (Immersive Multimedia […]
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02/29/2012
Pluggable Tranceiver Claims 2.5X Spectral Improvement
A soon-to-be-tested tunable Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) pluggable transceiver module from Calif.-based Optics and laser maker Oclaro Inc. uses 4x28G wavelengths to deliver a 2.5 times improvement in spectral efficiency compared with competing 10G solutions, the company claims. Making its debut at next week’s OFC/NFOEC show, the module provides not only “the performance boost […]
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02/29/2012
ONU, OLT SoC Solutions Go 10G
Fiber-to-the-home semi-conductor provider PMC-Sierra Inc. is marketing an end-to-end symmetric 10G-EPON fiber-access System-on-Chip (SoC) solution. The PAS9000 Optical Networking Unit (ONU) and the PAS8000 Optical Line Terminal (OLT) SoCs are the industry’s first to support 10Gb/s downstream and 10Gb/s upstream access connectivity, the company says. “This performance and feature integration enables carriers to provide advanced […]
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02/29/2012
Wanted: Interop Tech Advisors
The FCC’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau is looking for 14 people to sit on its Technical Advisory Board for First Responder Interoperability, tasked with “develop[ing] recommended minimum technical requirements to ensure a nationwide level of interoperability for the nationwide public safety broadband network.” The board must be in place March 23, so nominations […]
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02/28/2012
Microwave QAM Capacity Set To Double This Year
Sometime during the second half of this year, NEC Corp. will implement 2048 Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (2048 QAM) within its iPASOLINK product family. Claiming to be the first microwave radio system provider to introduce 2048 QAM, NEC says it can deliver as much as a 40-percent-per-channel capacity increase to its customers, relative to the systems […]