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02/24/2012
NCTC's Tech Edge: Femto/Pico Small Cells Cautiously Test The Rural Broadband Waters
Deployment of public-access femtocells and picocells in rural areas – a technology touted as potentially the best way to bring 3G/4G wireless broadband to “underserved” parts of the country – looks set to remain primarily in the trial stage for 2012. Despite hopeful predictions in some quarters of the industry, as of the start of […]
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02/24/2012
BrightLine Plans To Pick Up Where Canoe Left Off
Now that Canoe has thrown in the interactive-TV towel (click here for more information), New York City-based BrightLine is laying claim, “primed to shepherd iTV into its next, more immersive phase.” According to the company, it creates and deploys “customized, measurable interactive television ad experiences in ways that achieve instant mass scale and effectiveness, is […]
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02/24/2012
The Top 5 Tech Issues For Smaller Video-Service Providers
As the evolution of technology unfolds and continues to deliver unprecedented new user experiences across multiple platforms and devices, content and video services providers face myriad choices and competitive pressures. It is widely believed that the top five issues include: set-top device limitations, limited user interface options, back-end integration problems for varying systems, easily implemented […]
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02/24/2012
Duo Teams For Intrusion-Prevention Systems
The proliferation of such network applications as peer-to-peer file sharing has created business-critical challenges for network administrators and service providers. Networks must be monitored constantly for intellectual-property leakage and other types of abuse. Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) technology provides network administrators with better visibility and control, but the DPI subsystem must perform at line rate […]
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02/24/2012
The Next Generation Of Carrier Ethernet
Bob Metcalfe, Ethernet inventor (1973) and Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) advisory director, just launched Carrier Ethernet 2.0 (CE 2.0), characterized by three standardized features: Multiple Classes of Service (Multi-CoS); Interconnect; and Manageability, enabling the delivery of differentiated applications over managed and interconnected networks globally. CE 2.0 is generationally advanced from the standardized Ethernet services delivered […]
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02/24/2012
Nokia Supports AVX ‘Conflict Free’ Initiative
Nokia is the newest member of S.C.-based components and interconnect provider AVX Corporation’s "Solutions for Hope" initiative that enables validated conflict-free tantalum from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to be used in AVX, Nokia and other participating companies’ products. “The Solutions for Hope initiative was developed in collaboration with other defined suppliers to […]