Sunday, December 4, 2011

Radisys Intros HSPA+ Small Cell Solution

Radisys announced Evolved High-Speed Packet Access (HSPA+) performance enhancements for its Trillium Femtotality solution for 3G small cells. Radisys' Trillium Femtotality with HSPA+ delivers downlink speeds up to 21Mbps and uplink speeds of up to 5.76Mbps. The Femtotality source code software is completely portable. Radisys has assembled the largest silicon platform partnership ecosystem, including Broadcom, Cavium Networks, DesignArt Networks,...

Ethertronics Supplies Adaptive Antenna for Galaxy S II LTE Smartphone

San Diego-based will supply its EtherSmart LTE 1.0 Phone Adaptive Antenna Solution for Samsung's Galaxy S II LTE SC-03D smartphone for NTT DOCOMO subscribers in Japan. The design allows for a 50 percent reduction in the antenna's physical volume for Samsung's Galaxy S II LTE SC-03D. It uses Active Impedance Matching techniques, which dynamically tune the antenna system, to maintain consistently high performance by minimizing body effects. http://www.ethertronics....

ICC Enters Market for SMB Networking

International Communications Corporation (ICC), a start-up based in Riverside, California, made its launch into the market for networking equipment in small and medium-sized businesses with up to 500 employees. The company has set its sights on "how packets are processed in the network" and not merely connectivity. ICC's icXchange family of connectivity solutions includes WLAN mobility, Ethernet switches, Unified Communication, business gateways,...

Radisys Intros HSPA+ Small Cell Solution

Radisys announced Evolved High-Speed Packet Access (HSPA+) performance enhancements for its Trillium Femtotality solution for 3G small cells. Radisys' Trillium Femtotality with HSPA+ delivers downlink speeds up to 21Mbps and uplink speeds of up to 5.76Mbps. The Femtotality source code software is completely portable. Radisys has assembled the largest silicon platform partnership ecosystem, including Broadcom, Cavium Networks, DesignArt Networks,...

Ethertronics Supplies Adaptive Antenna for Galaxy S II LTE Smartphone

San Diego-based will supply its EtherSmart LTE 1.0 Phone Adaptive Antenna Solution for Samsung's Galaxy S II LTE SC-03D smartphone for NTT DOCOMO subscribers in Japan. The design allows for a 50 percent reduction in the antenna's physical volume for Samsung's Galaxy S II LTE SC-03D. It uses Active Impedance Matching techniques, which dynamically tune the antenna system, to maintain consistently high performance by minimizing body effects. http://www.ethertronics....

ICC Enters Market for SMB Networking

International Communications Corporation (ICC), a start-up based in Riverside, California, made its launch into the market for networking equipment in small and medium-sized businesses with up to 500 employees. The company has set its sights on "how packets are processed in the network" and not merely connectivity. ICC's icXchange family of connectivity solutions includes WLAN mobility, Ethernet switches, Unified Communication, business gateways,...

FCC Tests Telcordia's Television White Space Database

Telcordia announced the its Television White Space Database solution will be tested by the FCC's Office of Engineering and Technology (OET) in a 45 day public trial beginning this week. The Telcordia White Space Database allows provides a list of available channels that TV Bands White Space devices can use based on their location. Telcordia said its White Space Database will also be able to register other FCC-protected sites, such as MVPD receive...

IEEE Investigates EPON over Coax

The IEEE has launched a study group to investigate a new PHY (Physical Layer) standard for operating the Ethernet Passive Optical Network (EPON) protocol transparently over coaxial distribution networks. The goal would be to use IEEE 802.3 Ethernet specifications to significantly boost and broaden the capabilities of Ethernet in existing access networks. IEEE 802.3 EPON specifications include symmetric data rates of 1 Gbps and 10 Gbps, as well...

Vitesse Debuts "Serval" Switch Engine for Mobile Backhaul

Vitesse Semiconductor unveiled its "Serval" Carrier Ethernet switching silicon optimized for power and cost-sensitive applications at the network edge. The new line of devices adds to Vitesse's portfolio of previously announced Jaguar, LynX and Caracal solutions for Carrier access, aggregation, and mobile applications.The first of the new Serval chips offers nine 10/100/1000 Mbps SGMII/SerDes ports and two 2.5G SGMII/SerDes ports. It supports MPLS/MPLS-TP...

Symantec Launches Mobile Security Assessment Service

Symantec introduced a suite of Mobile Security Assessment services to help enterprises evaluate their mobile security postures and develop defenses against mobile threats and vulnerabilities. The Symantec Mobile Security Assessment Suite provides a vendor neutral evaluation of current mobile usage and threats by enterprises as their employees increasing access network resources via mobile devices and over third party links. It consists of two modules;...

Qualcomm Life Tackles Wireless Medical Device Connectivity

Qualcomm has formed an independent subsidiary to pursue the opportunity for medical device connectivity.Qualcomm Life is developing the technology-agnostic, "2net" platform for linking medical devices with cloud-based data centers. The idea is to capture biometric data, encrypt it and then transmit it via a smartphone or 2net home gateway device to customer-designated healthcare providers. Qualcomm Life said it plans to work with multiple carriers...