Aruba Delivers 1 Mbps Video Simultaneously to 100 iPads

Aruba Networks, in collaboration with the University of Ottawa, demonstrated the delivery of six multimedia educational applications 100 iPads concurrently located in a single auditorium. Each of the applications was delivered simultaneously to all 100 iPads with the highest quality and without any noticeable jitter, delay or frame loss. Aruba reports that 100 percent of the iPads passed the multimedia Service Level Agreement (SLA), as measured by...

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ARRIS Shows 4.5 Gbps Downstream DOCSIS

At this week's NCTA Cable Show in Chicago, ARRIS will demonstrate DOCSIS downstream file transfer throughput of 4.5 Gbps. This is achieved by transmitting over 128 DOCSIS downstream channels into a single Fiber Node. In the demo, an ARRIS C4 CMTS will be configured using four newly-released 32 Downstream Cable Access Modules (32D CAMs) to source the 128 DOCSIS downstream channels into the Fiber Node. The Bandwidth Monitor will illustrate that the...

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GSA: 37 Vendors with Announced LTE Consumer Devices

A new "Status of the LTE Ecosystem" report published by the GSA (Global mobile Suppliers Association) finds that 42 manufacturers have announced 137 LTE-enabled user devices, signalling 40% growth in the number of products launched in the past 3 months. The breakdown of LTE devices by form factor is as follows (March 2011 figures in brackets): Modules = 27 (22) M-Tablets = 8 (7) Notebooks/netbooks = 7 (6) PC Cards = 2 (1) Smartphones = 9 (6)...

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ECI Telecom Appoints Shimon Bart as President and CEO

ECI Telecom has appointed Mr. Shimon Bart as its new President and CEO, replacing Rafi Maor, who will now serve as Chairman of the Board. Bart was most recently the CEO of Keter Plastic Ltd. - IPG, one of the world's leading global manufacturers and marketers of resin-based home consumer products, with hundreds of millions of dollars in sales and an employer of nearly 1,500 people worldwide. Prior to that, he served as the General Manager of one...

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Verizon Wireless to Offer Mobile Payments via Payfone

Verizon Wireless is preparing to launch a new service that will allow customers to make online purchases from their smartphones, tablets and PCs using numerous payment methods, including charging purchases to their monthly wireless statements or using traditional payment methods through financial institution partners. The service will be powered by Payfone."Our relationship with Payfone complements the part of the mobile payments equation we're...

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Devicescape -- The Easy WiFi Mobile Data Offload Network

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Telco Systems Embeds Symmetricom in Packet Backhaul

Telco Systems has partnered with Symmetricom to embed IEEE1588v2 technology into its mobile backhaul solution. The combined solution ensures the delivery of precise timing and synchronization over packet-based networks.Telco Systems' mobile backhaul edge solution uses Carrier Ethernet and IP/MPLS as transport technologies. It supports a variety of synchronization technologies (1588v2, SyncE, ACR) and synchronization interworking to provide optimized and flexible support of different customer networks. http://www.telco.com http://www.symmetrico...

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Broadcom's 3rd Gen DOCSIS 3.0 Chips Optimize 1GHz Downstream Spectrum

Broadcom introduced its third generation DOCSIS 3.0 system-on-a-chip (SoC) solution featuring Full-Band Capture (FBC) technology, dual-band concurrent Wi-Fi and a custom applications processor. The FBC digital tuning technology directly samples and digitizes the entire 1GHz downstream spectrum of a cable plant, providing access to any channel anywhere. Advanced signal processing techniques enables finer digital tuning and supports DOCSIS and digital...

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Motorola Televation Offers CableCard Programming, Transcoding, Wi-Fi

Motorola Mobility introduced its "Televation" broadband device for distributing live TV via Wi-Fi to any IP-enable screen around the home.Televation employs a 1GHz digital tuner and CableCard to access broadcast TV channels directly from a coax outlet. The device has a high-performance transcoder that translates programming in real-time from MPEG-2 to MPEG-4, as well as changing resolution and bit rate to match the capabilities of the consumer's...

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LulzSec Hacks Senate.Gov

The Lulz Security hacktivists continued their cyber attack exploits by releasing an internal data map of Senate.gov -- the official website of the U.S. Senate. This is the same group of hacktivists who in recent weeks have gained notoriety by attacking Fox.com, the U.K.'s National Health Service, Nintendo, PBS.org, and a company that provides IT services for the FBI.http://www.convergedigest....

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Alcatel-Lucent Teams with thePlatform to Extend Cable to Any Screen

Alcatel-Lucent has formed a strategic alliance with thePlatform to help cable and IPTV providers deliver a new generation of live scheduled TV, Video-on-Demand (VOD) and "TV everywhere" services services to any screen, including subscribers' TVs, PCs, tablets, and mobile phones.thePlatform is an online video management and publishing company that supports some of the largest TV Everywhere initiatives across the cable industry.The joint solution...

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Ciena Extends Packet-Optical, Adding Control Plane and Coherent Optics

Ciena is evolving its packet-optical portfolio to enable intelligent infrastructures using advanced silicon, software and switching technologies. Specifically, Ciena is adding OTN switching to the 6500 Series and 5410 Reconfigurable Switching System, and is introducing a 2-slot variant of the 6500 Series for smaller, network edge installations, expanding customers' solution set options depending on their capability requirements at particular network...

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