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06/01/2011
Just How Strong Is That Ingress?
From time to time, I correspond with cable system technical staff who are dealing with upstream ingress from a Citizens Band (CB) radio signal in the vicinity of 27 MHz. In some cases, the ingress is quite strong, leading outside plant personnel to believe the CBer must be using an illegal linear amplifier to boost […]
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06/01/2011
What's In Your Network?
Remember the scene in the movie “Network,” when Peter Finch got everyone to scream, “I’m mad as hell, and I’m not going to take it anymore?” That’s the way I felt on a recent out-of-town trip when I couldn’t get an unfamiliar data card to work with my laptop. After some impassioned email and a […]
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05/31/2011
Comcast Partners With City of Chicago For Internet Program
This morning in Chicago, Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced an initiative, in conjunction with Comcast, to provide affordable Internet access and computer equipment to economically-disadvantaged school children. The program, dubbed "Internet Essentials" will be available throughout the Comcast footprint as students return to school this fall. Households will be eligible to participate in Internet Essentials if […]
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05/31/2011
Rogers Worries 700 MHz Auction Will Favor Newcomers
Rob Bruce, president/Communications for Rogers Communications, speaking at the 2011 Canadian Telecom Summit in Toronto, pressed for a fair and open auction of 700 MHz band spectrum in Canada. Bruce said that an equal and fair auction – that includes established players and newcomers under the same rules – is critical to Rogers’ deployment of […]
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05/31/2011
Nokia Lowers Expectations
According to ABI Research, Nokia Siemens’ earnings report today was devastating news for the company. The mobile phone maker warned that it would not meet its Q2 sales and margin targets, and was forced to reset expectations for its full-year 2011 outlook. The company stated that net sales of devices and services would not meet […]
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05/31/2011
Alcatel-Lucent Puts the Smarts Into Chattanooga's Smart Grid
EPB, Chattanooga’s electric power distributor and a communications provider, and Alcatel-Lucent have teamed to ultimately provide energy management options to customers throughout the region by developing techniques to help analyze energy usage at unprecedented levels of detail. EPB operates a high-speed optical fiber network – powered by Alcatel-Lucent’s gigabit passive optical network (GPON) technology – […]