Thursday, February 19, 2009

SingTel Offers Managed Healthcare Management and Remote Monitoring Islandwide

Singapore General Hospital (SGH), Singapore Telecommunications Limited (SingTel), and HSAGlobal have piloted a new electronic health record and management system that makes patient data available to care providers.The solution, which is fully managed and hosted by SingTel, allows healthcare providers, such as doctors and nurses, to track patients' progress from the time of admission through step-down facilities in the community. CCMS is a solution developed by HSAGlobal (HSA) for integrated care management across multiple healthcare organizations...

Vodafone Confirms 3G Signal Boosters

Vodafone is trialing a new product designed to improve 3G mobile signals in areas of homes and offices which may have lower levels of network coverage. Trials are currently underway in a number of Vodafone markets to assess the potential of the new product. The product is based on technology which consists of a powered booster box connected to a small antenna that amplifies existing 3G signals from the wide area network to offer enhanced reception over a range of up to 9 meters. The antenna is positioned where the mobile 3G network signal is...

Telecom NZ Readies 3G 850 MHz Upgrade with Alcatel-Lucent

Telecom NZ is on track for the launch of its nationwide 3G WCDMA 850MHz (W850) mobile network by June. Alcatel-Lucent serves as technology partner for the project. Financial terms were not disclosed.http://www.alcatel-lucent....

Riverbed Closes Acquisition of Mazu

Riverbed Technology completed its acquisition of Mazu Networks. Riverbed also announced that it has appointed Mazu CEO Paul Brady to run the Riverbed Application Intelligence Business Unit.Riverbed said the acquisition of Mazu extends its suite of WAN optimization products to include global application performance reporting and analytics. The Mazu products, which have been renamed Cascade, analyze network traffic to provide valuable information about...

NTT Com Field Tests Advanced Internet Routing Registry (IRR)

NTT Communications is collaborating with the Japan Network Information Center (JPNIC) in the field test of a new Internet Routing Registry (IRR), a routing database that is being designed for enhanced reliability and to prevent Internet routing from being hijacked. The test will end on February 27. The experimental IRR is being tested in an actual Internet environment to quantitatively measure how fast its server recovers from failure. Performance also will be evaluated qualitatively based on interviews of the test participants, which include...

Huawei to Release its First Android Smartphone in Q3

Huawei Technologies plans commercial release of its first Android-powered smart phone in the third quarter of 2009. Huawei partnered with an established design consultancy to develop a user-friendly interface. The interface is able to evolve with operators' differentiation requirements."Huawei is delighted to showcase its much anticipated first Android-powered smart phone. As a terminal solutions provider with all-round capabilities, Huawei has an acute insight into the drivers of the communications industry and in-depth understanding of operators,"...

Huawei Shows its Unified LTE Solution at Mobile World Congress

Huawei Technologies demonstrated the world' s first unified frequency-division duplex and time-division duplex (FDD/TDD) long-term evolution (LTE) solution last week at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.In January 2009, Huawei was awarded the world' s first LTE commercial contract by TeliaSonera, the largest telecommunication operator in Scandinavia and the Baltic countries. Huawei was also selected by Telus and Bell to deploy North America' s first LTE-oriented HSPA network in Canada in 2008. As of today, Huawei' s LTE research has made more...

Telstra's 21 Mbps HSPA+ Service Launches this Week

Telstra is launching its "Turbo 21" mobile broadband service this week. Peak network speeds will increase to 42Mbps later this year.At launch, the 21Mbps rated modems will be available to some business customers, with a consumer offering available in April. Customers with these devices will see typical download speeds ranging up to 8Mbps.Speaking at the GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, said for the first time a mobile network would bring...