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Intel acquires TI’s cable modem unit, might be sneaking into your AV rack

admin — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 18:11:00 +0000

Intel’s been trying to break into the home entertainment market for years, and while it’s made some inroads, it’s also looking at a notable list of ho hum attempts that never managed to gain traction.

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Intel acquires TI’s cable modem unit, might be sneaking into your AV rack

Fiber optics get political in Australia as opposition party vows to scale down national broadband plan

admin — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 02:50:00 +0000

When Australia goes to the polls on August 21st, citizens will vote for more than men and the traditional issues they represent — the ballots cast will directly impact the country’s national broadband plan.

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Fiber optics get political in Australia as opposition party vows to scale down national broadband plan

Rover Puck WiMAX hotspot gets FCC’d, traction on ice subject of fierce debate

admin — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 02:31:00 +0000

The pool of choices for WiMAX hotspots continues to expand, and thanks to the FCC , we now know of another up-and-comer.

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Lockheed Martin, Navy team up to deploy communications buoys for submarines

admin — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 00:59:00 +0000

Lockheed Martin has announced that it’s completed a critical design review for a system that enables submarine communication while below periscope depth.

Australia to pay Telstra A$11 billion for entire copper network

admin — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 20:42:00 +0000

The Australian government just found the infrastructure for its A$43 billion national broadband project and eliminated its largest competitor in one fell swoop — pending shareholder and regulator approval, Telstra will receive A$11 billion of that money in exchange for its entire landline network. Telstra will decommission its monopoly of copper cables to make room for the government’s fiber and migrate its customers to the resulting 100Mbps National Broadband Network (NBN) as those light-bearing threads roll out. While Telstra might become a smaller player in the internet and cable business without a land network of its own, it may get even larger in the wireless space — the company says it’s received “written confirmation from the Prime Minister” that it can bid on a chunk of precious LTE spectrum should the deal go through

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Chinese scientists demonstrate 2Mbps internet connection over LED

admin — Tue, 18 May 2010 02:22:00 +0000

LED data transmission used to be all the rage — we fondly remember beaming Palm Pilot contacts via IrDA. Then we got omni-directional Bluetooth and building-penetrating WiFi , and put all that caveman stuff behind us.

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Google’s 1Gbps broadband offer brings out the crazy in municipal officers around the States (video)

admin — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 12:14:00 +0000

You’ll be aware by now that Google’s cooking up an experimental high speed broadband network, which is currently in the process of collecting applications and nominations from interested communities . Given the limited coverage planned — anywhere between 50,000 and 500,000 people — there’s understandably a lot of competition to get your small town on Google’s radar, and city officials all around the USA have been doing their utmost to grab some publicity for their locale.

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AT&T completes 100-Gigabit Ethernet field trial using new Cisco gear, proves it does care

admin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:28:00 +0000

Remember those network investments that AT&T was talking up just days before Time Warner slipped over an offer for help? Looks as if the firm wasn’t kidding around, but there’s still nothing here that should get you excited about more available bandwidth in the coming days. Utilizing that fancy new Cisco router, the carrier recently completed a live network environmental trial of 100-Gigabit backbone network technology (far more hasty than that 40-Gigabit stuff that’s around today), but we’re told that the tech isn’t expected to be ready for “commercial deployment” until the “next few years.” ‘Course, we suspect we should be struck by the notion that the internet may actually have the proper infrastructure to keep on keepin’ on once Hulu really does take over the world, but for now, we’ll just have to extract a bit more joy from those vague “little things” in life

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brite-View LinkE pipes content to four Ethernet sources over existing powerline network

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:59:00 +0000

The market is darn near flooded with HomePlug AV -compatible powerline solutions, but Zinnet has seen fit to one-up the networking mainstays by dishing out a product that serves not one, but four Ethernet-packin’ devices simultaneously. Designed for use with its brite-View CinemaTube (but fully capable of working with game consoles, Blu-ray players and media streamers), this two-piece kit allows internet content to flow through your home’s existing powerline network and hit up to four devices on the other end

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brite-View LinkE pipes content to four Ethernet sources over existing powerline network

Cisco promises the ‘next generation internet,’ delivers markedly less

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:36:00 +0000

Cisco promised us a significant announcement this morning, one that would “forever change the Internet and its impact on consumers, businesses and governments,” so we had to tune in to the company’s webcast to find out what it was all about. We were instantly bowled over with the shocking news that video is the killer app of the future internet, before getting it drilled into our heads that we really need, like and want more bandwidth. No kidding — so what, Cisco, what is your revolutionary next step

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