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Wednesday, August 29, 2012
AT&T U-Verse TV Adds Facebook App
AT&T began offering a Facebbok on TV app to its U-Verse TV customers.
The Facebook on TV interactive app lets the user view news feeeds, post status updates, interact with friends and easily share info on the show they are watching. U-verse TV customers can add up to ten different accounts on a single receiver.
"The TV experience is becoming more social, and we've always focused on delivering interactive TV apps that are more engaging...
Seeking a Better Paradigm for Global Standards
IEEE, Internet Architecture Board (IAB), Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), Internet Society and World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) reached agreement for establishing a modern paradigm for global, open standards.
The agreement is premised on the understanding that the economics of global markets - fueled by technological innovation - drive global deployment of standards, regardless of their formal status within traditional bodies of national...
Teradek's Wi-Fi Hotspot Can Bond 6 3G/4G USB Modems
Teradek introduced a rugged, mobile bonded cellular hotspot that provides six USB ports for 3G/4G modems, dual Ethernet ports, and built-in dual band a/b/g/n MIMO WiFi. The aggregated uplink can be any combination of 3G/4G service, satellite, terrestrial microwave, etc. The device is powered with the built in AC/DC adapter, or through a V-mount or Anton Bauer Gold-mount adapter for mobile power. MIMO Wi-Fi enables the device to be...
CSA Big Data Working Group Looks at Security and Scalability
The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) and Fujitsu Laboratories of America has set up a Big Data Working Group to address the security and privacy issues magnified today by the velocity, volume, and variety of big data, such as large-scale cloud infrastructures, diversity of data sources and formats, streaming nature of data acquisition and high volume inter-cloud migration.
The group is chaired by Sreeranga Rajan of Fujitsu Laboratories...
ADTRAN Enables Cloud-based WLAN Service with Bluesocket
ADTRAN upgraded its Bluesocket virtual Wireless LAN (vWLAN) solution to give service providers and value-added resellers (VARs) the ability to deliver cloud-based Wi-Fi service offerings. The Bluesocket solution can now support hundreds of customer WLANs, offering a cloud-based WLAN service without the expense of placing a hardware controller on the customer’s site.
ADTRAN’s software-based vWLAN solution utilizes virtualization and allows...
OIF to Demo Multi-Vendor 100G Interoperability
The Optical Internetworking Forum will host Europe's first demonstration of multi-vendor 100 Gbps channels at the upcoming ECOC 2012 in Amsterdam, Sept. 17-19, 2012.
The demo will show the issued CEI-25G-LR and the draft CEI-28G-VSR implementation agreements and includes seven component suppliers and two test equipment vendors. The OIF's Physical and Link Layer demonstrations will feature host ASICs with VSR SERDES, host PCB traces,...
Sprint Activates 4 More LTE Markets
Sprint activated LTE service in Baltimore, Md., Gainesville, Ga., Manhattan/Junction City, Kan., and Sedalia, Mo. The carrier's Network Vision upgrade program also bring all-new 3G service to Baltimore, Boston and Washington, D.C.
Sprint 4G LTE made its debut in 15 cities on July 15, and the company plans to introduce more markets to the network in 2012. By the end of 2013, Sprint expects to have largely completed the build-out of its all-new 4G LTE and 3G nationwide network.
http://www.sprint.com/4GL...
TeliaSonera IC and Hibernia Target Media Distribution
TeliaSonera International Carrier (TSIC) and Hibernia have formed a strategic partnership for global media distribution.
Under the deal, Hibernia Media will acquire TSIC's MediaConnect business, while TSIC's award-winning fiber backbone will form the core of the new network. Both companies's media networks are based on the NetInsight NIMBRA MSR platform, making for easier integration. TSIC owns and operates one of the world's largest fiber backbones.
"The...
Spirent Offers Hybrid Wireless Location Testing
Spirent Communications introduced a Hybrid Location Technology Solution (HLTS) combining Wi-Fi, Assisted Global Navigation Satellite System (A-GNSS), Micro Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) sensor and cellular positioning technologies. The solution provides repeatable and reliable lab-based characterization of mobile devices supporting the hybrid location technologies being developed to provide accurate user location everywhere, including...
