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10/10/2012
Lowering TCO While Migrating To PICs
Currently, most high-speed digital optical transport is carried over 10 Gb/s waves using a pair of fibers (TX/RX). Using 160 x 10G DWDM lambdas with double density spacing at 25 GHz, a fiber pair can transport 1.6 Tb/s or half that if 50 GHz spacing is used. Growth occurs in 10G increments by adding new […]
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10/10/2012
Global Connections 10/10/12
Lattelecom, a telecom and video-content company in Latvia, installed Thomson Video Networks’ ViBE VS7000 multi-screen video platform. The 10RU system provides encoding for Lattelecom’s new range of Web and mobile TV services as well as SD, HD, and 3D IPTV offerings. ViBE VS7000 supports as many as 30 new multiplatform video services. Based on the […]
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10/10/2012
Deals Of The Day 10/10/12
Canada’s Rogers Communications and Amsterdam’s Gemalto collaborated on mobile payment solutions currently in pilot testing and coming to market this year on Rogers NFC-enabled devices; the solutions will be secured by Gemalto’s digital security technology. Rogers will deploy the UpTeq NFC, Gemalto’s EMV-ready, high-end SIM-UICC solution, to store and secure consumers credentials and card data […]
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10/10/2012
Events 10/10/12
During the last week of September, multiple chipset companies met at the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL) to perform the first interoperability testing of the ITU-T’s new G.vector specifications. The G.vector technology provides a boost to VDSL2 subscriber data rates by leveraging new features in the G.vector specification to cancel the crosstalk in […]
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10/10/2012
Survey Sez 10/10/12
U.S. CIOs expect total IT budgets to increase 1.8 percent next year, roughly 50 percent less than they did in 2012, according to new 2013 IT budget benchmarks from Va.-based CEB. Despite economic woes, European organizations are expecting a 2-percent increase in IT budgets. The primary driver of total budget growth comes from increases in […]
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10/10/2012
New Stuff 10/10/12
The Slingbox 500 and Slingbox 350, two completely redesigned retail Slingbox products that deliver best-in-class, up to Full 1080p HD-quality, live streaming to smartphones, tablets, laptops and connected devices, now are available from EchoStar subsidiary Sling Media Inc. In addition, the Slingbox 500 introduces such new features as Wi-Fi and HDMI as well as a […]