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07/14/2011
Digital Alert Systems Readies for Emergency Alerts
Digital Alert Systems, a provider of Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) and Emergency Alert Systems (EAS), says its DASDEC-II is an FCC-certified EAS encoder/decoder capable of receiving CAP messaging. In addition, the DASDEC-II has successfully completed FEMA’s Integrated Public Alert and Warning System (IPAWS) conformance testing under the consumer and producer designation. The DASDEC-II model DASEOC-R6-CAP […]
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07/14/2011
Midcontinent Delivers 100 Mbps
Midcontinent Communications has launched MidcoNet Xstream Wideband, an enhanced Internet service, to more than 250,000 customers across the Upper Midwest. Upgrades to digital cable and DOCSIS 3.0 have allowed Midcontinent to expand capacity and deliver up to 100 Mbps downloads and 15 Mbps uploads. Midcontinent also added ESPN3.com as part of the upgrade. The conversion […]
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07/14/2011
Emergency Alerts: Comms Industry Says It’s Got Things Covered
Tornadoes. Floods. Campus shooters. Kidnapped children. All of these are frequent and devastating phenomena in the United States. In light of this and of the pending due dates for new federal emergency-alert deployments, Congress wanted to know how the communications industry – including telcos, wireless providers and broadcasters – have kicked their roles up a […]
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07/13/2011
Comcast, Ciena Train Salespeople on Metro E
Ciena’s 18-wheeler promotion/training truck rolled into Denver yesterday, and Ciena and Comcast executives touted their joint efforts to deploy Metro Ethernet business services. Ciena’s Carrier Ethernet Service Delivery (CESD) platforms are being deployed by Comcast as customer premise equipment for business services and wireless backhaul. (For more, see Comcast Ramps Metro E with Cisco, Ciena). […]
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07/13/2011
Cheetah Releases Latest V-Factor
Cheetah Technologies LP has released V-Factor 2.6 for its Source Monitor product family of video performance monitoring solutions. The 2.6 release advances Cheetah’s capabilities to provide a meaningful and statistically relevant mean opinion score (MOS) for video streams. V-Factor 2.6 examines network, packet, transport, video coding layer and the digital video stream to determine the quality […]
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07/13/2011
Comcast Finishes National Roll-Out of Tech Support Services
Comcast’s Xfinity Signature Support, a “personal helpdesk” service for computers, home networking equipment and other devices connected to Comcast services, is now available to more than 22 million customers across the country. Assistance is available either as part of a monthly subscription plan or on a stand-alone basis for one-time fixes, such as virus removal […]