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09/01/2011
The Day After: More Reaction To DoJ’s AT&T/T-Mobile Civil Suit
The PR machine was working overtime last night as the initial shock began to wear off from yesterday’s U.S. Department of Justice announcement that it was filing a civil suit to block the proposed AT&T/T-Mobile merger (for more on that, click here). AT&T, of course, has vowed to put its entire legal wherewithal into the […]
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09/01/2011
PONs: Why Testing For Conformance And Interoperability Are Key To Their Future
Capacity and speed are the keys to a new generation of consumer broadband services, including multi-screen HD in-home video, interactive and conferencing services, and home monitoring/automation. Coupling them with lower latencies allows service providers to offer businesses a broader array of services, moving beyond where T1 lines, ISDN and DSL left off. Passive Optical Networks […]
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09/01/2011
Shaw Opts for Wi-Fi Instead of 3.5G
After exploring its wireless options, Shaw has chosen to build a Wi-Fi network. The Canadian operator completed a strategic review of the wireless business opportunity including the potential value of wireless in the traditional cable bundle, the evolution of wireless technologies, the capital needed to build a competitive wireless network (including additional spectrum requirements), recent […]
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09/01/2011
dBmV: Voltage or Power? (Part 2)
Consider a sine wave viewed in the time domain – that is, amplitude vs. time – as might be seen on an oscilloscope. This alternating current waveform’s amplitude or level can be characterized in a variety of ways. One can measure the sine wave’s peak-to-peak, peak, root mean square or average values of current and […]
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09/01/2011
Spectrum Wars: Who Will Decide?
Most of us were taught from an early age that stealing is wrong, and most of us adhere to that premise most of the time. There is a right way and a not-so-right way to go about getting what we want and need. I started pondering this after hearing a news blurb regarding the impact […]
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09/01/2011
Simplifying Metro Service Delivery ‘Dynamic’ally
As service providers increase metro network capacity to support more video, over-the-top content and Metro Ethernet, they are challenged by design complexity. BTI Systems’ new approach to optical service delivery for metro networks includes a Dynamic Optical Layer engineered to help simplify the process of adding wavelengths in metropolitan and aggregation networks. "How do you […]