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01/26/2009
Plugfest Touts IMS
The IMS Forum upped the ante for Plugfest 6, which took place last week at the UNH InterOperability Lab in New Hampshire. This go-around there were three IMS core networks – one standard open source core and two put together in what was described during a media briefing as a vendor mix and match. Two […]
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01/22/2009
Hosted Voice Speeds Past the Competition
Optimum Lightpath, the division of Cablevision Systems that offers Metro Ethernet services to business customers, has launched a new product – Lightpath Hosted Voice. Hosted Voice’s claim to fame is that it will provide up to five times the bandwidth offered by competitors for voice and Internet service. In Optimum Lightpath’s service area, which covers […]
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01/20/2009
SCTE Canadian Summit
Who the heck goes to Canada in February? The SCTE, apparently. The Society’s Canadian Summit is scheduled for Feb. 3-4 at the Toronto Congress Centre in Ontario. Asked about the event’s timing, SCTE VP of Marketing and Business Development Deb Swann simply replied, "The Canadian Summit program committee felt that this time of year, although […]
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01/15/2009
White Spaces Tech Advances
As triple-play has moved from buzzword to reality, today’s hot concept seems to be the wordier notion of consumer access to content whenever and wherever. Some say the FCC’s decision to allow the unlicensed use of TV white spaces will facilitate this. "The increased connectivity of this quality of spectrum allows more people to watch […]
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01/13/2009
CES Wrapup: The View from Vegas
Company execs at last week’s 2009 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas were anxious to make it clear they know that 21st century digital consumers want content anywhere on any device. For starters, just prior to the opening of CES, Cisco’s big guns unveiled the company’s consumer strategy, with Chairman and CEO John Chambers […]
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01/12/2009
Picocells, Femtocells Offer Backhaul
Question: Which is smaller, a pico or a femto? Answer: A femto, which is one-quadrillionth, while the larger pico is one-trillionth. It follows then that femtocells are deployed mostly in residential settings, while the more robust picocells are deployed in larger buildings. Both femtocells and picocells are mini base stations that connect to the Internet […]