IEEE Ratifies 802.11n Standard, New Amendment Adds WLAN Scalability

The IEEE officially ratified the 802.11n standard along with an amendment for enabling greater scaling of WLANs. Wi-Fi devices supporting 802.11n have been on the market for some time and an estimated 1 million 802.11n devices are shipping per day. More than 400 individuals from equipment and silicon suppliers, service providers, systems integrators, consultant organizations and academic institutions from more than 20 countries participated in a...

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NTT DOCOMO Bids for Germany's net mobile

NTT DOCOMO will launch a voluntary public tender offer for net mobile AG, an international mobile content distribution platform company based in Düsseldorf, Germany. DOCOMO will offer a cash compensation of EUR 6.35 per share for all outstanding shares of net mobile. The offer price represents a 53.9 percent premium over the three-month average weighted share price prior to this announcement and a 34.2 percent premium over the closing price on September 10, 2009.net mobile AG is an internationally leading full-service provider for mobile and interactive...

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NSN Supplies VDSL2 for Israel's Bezeq

Nokia Siemens Networks has supplied Israel's Bezeq with its latest Multi Service Access Nodes (MSANs), which are capable of handling both voice and broadband data services on one common platform. This enables the roll out of new advanced services, like High Definition television, video conferencing or remote services, over VDSL2 connections with bandwidths of up to 50Mbps. Financial terms were not disclosed. http://www.nsn....

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Ditech and SimulScribe Partner on Voice-to-Text

Ditech Networks will be the exclusive global marketing and sales partner for SimulScribe's voice-to-text (VTT) applications to service providers and enterprises.The companies said the combination of SimulScribe's VTT products and Ditech Networks' Voice Quality Assurance (VQA), mStage, and toktok products will enable Ditech to offer an extensive suite of voice capabilities to carriers. Effective immediately, Ditech Networks will begin offering SimulScribe's SimulAuto, SimulHybrid, and ScribeALL products. SimulAuto, available as an Internet-based...

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SES To Provide Satellite Broadband in East Africa

Paris-based SES is expanding the reach of its satellite-based broadband service to Africa through a signed agreement with Intersat Africa. The service, which will start in January 2010, will be offered to households, small and medium enterprises as well as schools in Eastern and Central Africa. The service will use satellite capacity from the SES WORLD SKIES' NSS-12 satellite.ASTRA2Connect will be sold in ten countries in East and Central Africa,...

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Motorola Showcases Latest Digital Video Products

At IBC 2009 in Amsterdam, Motorola is showcasing its next-generation encoding platform which has been designed to meet future processing demands of both 1080P/50Hz and 1080P/60Hz resolutions using the MPEG-4 format, as well as providing additional processing horsepower to support emerging services such as 3D television and multi-stream output.Motorola's is also showing its next-generation APEX1000 all-purpose edge QAM, offering MPEG-4 rate shaping...

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Nokia has Acquired Plum for Location Services

Nokia has acquired certain assets of Plum Ventures, Inc, a privately held company which employed approximately 10 people with main offices in Boston, Massachusetts. Plum will complement Nokia's Social Location services. Financial terms were not disclosed.Plum operates a cloud-based social media sharing and messaging service for private groups. Plum-powered groups are suited for families, co-workers, neighborhoods, sports, schools, faith and any other existing social group. The acquired Plum assets will become part of Nokia's Services unit.http://www.nokia.com...

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Court Backs Microsoft in Finding Patent Infringement Award Excessive

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled in favor of Microsoft in a decision concerning a $358 million damages award that the software maker was ordered to pay Alcatel-Lucent for violating one of its patents. Microsoft had argued that the $358 million award was excessively large and that the court had used a mistaken formula for calculating the damages it owed. A new trial will be held to decide the amount of damages owed. http://www.cafc.uscourts....

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Virgin Media Picks Cisco for Digital Video Network

Virgin Media (UK) has selected Cisco to support its IPTV distribution platform and help upgrade its legacy digital TV infrastructure. Specifically, Virgin Media will deploy Cisco Digital Video Headend technology in all of its regional and central headends to enable growth in standard-definition and advanced high-definition TV (HDTV) services. Deployed across Virgin Media's national fibre optic network, Cisco IP core and edge network technologies...

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10G-EPON Standard Ratified

The 10 Gbps Ethernet Passive Optical Network (10G-EPON) standard has been ratified by the IEEE P802.3av Task Force.IEEE Std. 802.3av-2009, also known as Physical Layer Specifications and Management Parameters for 10 Gbps Passive Optical Networks, describes Fiber-To-The-Home (FTTH) telecommunications systems using symmetric and asymmetric line-rate operations. The symmetric option operates at 10 Gb/s in both the downstream and upstream directions....

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