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02/13/2012
Why The Wireless Market Can’t Support More Carriers
In this era of spectrum shortages, do consumers really benefit from increased competition in the mobile communications market? No, says the Phoenix Center for Advanced Legal & Economic Public Policy Studies in Washington, D.C. Popular thinking in the wireless industry holds that more competition automatically translates into lower prices for consumers. If spectrum is readily […]
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02/13/2012
TI: Five Radios On A Single Chip
Texas Instruments Incorporated will be demo-ing its WiLink 8.0 product family — a collection of 45-nanometer single-chip solutions that integrate as many as five different radios – at the upcoming Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The solutions also are being sampled by “top-tier mobile OEMs,” TI adds. Each chip variant comes in a compact WSP […]
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02/13/2012
VPN Added To AT&T Enterprise Cloud Portfolio
AT&T Synaptic Compute as a Service with VMware vCloud Datacenter Service is the carrier’s new enterprise-class cloud service it says combines its virtual private networking (VPN) strengths with those from cloud infrastructure software developer VMware. Like AT&T’s other cloud offers, the operator says “this new cloud capability is embedded directly into its network. This means […]
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02/13/2012
Rogers Enters FMC Arena
Rogers Communications’ subscribers soon will be able to use their wireless numbers as their “go to” single numbers, a service Rogers says “is unprecedented and the first of its kind in Canada, enabling Rogers to further stand out in the competitive Canadian telecom landscape.” The carrier is using fixed/mobile convergence (FMC) provider CounterPath Corporation’s portfolio […]
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02/13/2012
Tester Addresses Cable, Network Glitches
The NaviTEK II Ethernet Service and Cable Tester, available in three versions in April from Ideal Industry Networks, services IPv6, PoE+, VLANs and trace route; it includes a large color LCD screen to view, pin by pin, wiremap capabilities. According to the manufacturer, the device can test both cabling and network performance using the […]
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02/13/2012
Wireless Access Points Also Offer Small-Cell Backhaul
New from Ruckus Wireless are the ZoneFlex 7762-AC and the ZoneFlex 7762-S-AC, touted by the company as being “the industry’s first 802.11n outdoor AC-powered Wi-Fi access points (APs) that integrate Ruckus-patented BeamFlex adaptive antenna array technology.” Both units are priced starting at $2,499, and they come with a one-year warranty. With AC power support, the […]