Blueprint: Next Gen Mobile Video Optimization

Mobile Streaming is the Future – It’s Also the Problem We Must Solve by Mark Fisher, VP Marketing and Business Development at Qwilt To be sure, streaming video really is the future. The online video phenomenon is creating a market and technology transformation that rivals some of the greatest technology disruptions in history. Just like the disruption of broadcast radio and cable television in their day, streaming video is transforming both...

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Verizon Expands Unified Communications & Collaboration as a Service (UCCaaS)

Verizon announced an expansion of its Unified Communications & Collaboration as a Service (UCCaaS) solution, including the availability of Cisco Collaboration Meeting Rooms. Verizon UCCaaS is a Cisco Powered solution built on Cisco Hosted Collaboration Solution (HCS) that allows enterprises and government agencies to integrate Unified Communications (UC) capabilities into fixed or mobile environments with predictable per-seat pricing.  UCCaaS...

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RAD Launches vCPE Platform

RAD introduced a carrier-grade virtual CPE (vCPE) platform with Distributed NFV (D-NFV) capability.   RAD’s ETX-2i is an IP and Carrier Ethernet NID/NTU with a field pluggable x86 NFV module for hosting virtual network functions (VNFs).  It can be managed by RAD’s D-NFV Orchestrator or any third-party orchestrator using open standards, and supports various options for vCPE architecture and VNF placement to meet agility, performance, security...

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Cavium Integrates NVIDIA Tesla GPU in ThunderX ARM processor

Cavium is adding support for NVIDIA Tesla GPU accelerators in its ThunderX ARM processor family, its 64-bit ARMv8 server processor for next generation data center and cloud applications. The ThunderX family integrates up to 48 high performance ARMv8-A custom cores, single and dual socket configurations, high memory bandwidth, large memory capacity, integrated hardware accelerators, integrated feature rich high bandwidth network and storage IO, fully...

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Cypress Completes Merger with Spansion

Cypress Semiconductor completed its previously announced merger with Spansion -- an all-stock deal valued at $5 billion. The combined company, which will be headquartered in San Jose, California and called Cypress Semiconductor, will be a $2 billion global leader in microcontrollers and specialized memories for embedded systems. The original Cypress supplies programmable system-on-chip families for consumer, mobile handsets, computation, data...

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ViaSat and Boeing Build Lower Cost Space/Ground System

ViaSat and Boeing are teaming up to offer an integrated space/ground system for Service Providers that promises lower cost per bit and more flexibility. The companies said next-generation RF Satellite Access Nodes, with an overall footprint size similar to cellular wireless towers, can effectively compete with terrestrial service alternatives for regional operators. "The advantage of using geostationary satellites to spread broadband availability...

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Polaris Wireless Supplies High- accuracy Location in Sub-Saharan Africa

Polaris Wireless announced tje first deployment of its Altus and OmniLocate location surveillance product suite in sub-Saharan Africa. This marks the twenty-second deployment outside of the US, and the forty-ninth globally for Polaris Wireless. The Polaris Wireless Altus and OmniLocate application suite is a software-based surveillance solution that enables accurate mass location - providing users the ability to simultaneously locate all subscribers...

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RADWIN Launches Smart Beamforming Antenna

RADWIN introduced a point-to-multipoint antenna featuring a Smart Beamforming mechanism that can be used to deliver broadband access service with assured SLA over the unlicensed 5.x GHz bands in dense urban areas..  The company says its JET system cancels radio interference and enables operation in the most heavily congested unlicensed bands and in non-line-of-sight (NLOS) conditions. Some highlights: Base station featuring Smart Beamforming...

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ALU Enterprise Spins New Smart Deskphone

Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise today introduced a new 8088 Smart DeskPhone with OpenTouch capabilities, which lets users can easily navigate between workstations, tablets, smartphones and the 8088 Smart DeskPhone to use the most appropriate device for their needs without losing context or interaction in the conversation. The new 8088 Smart DeskPhone includes advanced features for wideband audio and HD video conversations. Key features: 7" touch...

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China's Shandong Power Picks Coriant 7090 Packet Transport Platform

Shandong Electric Power, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the State Grid Corporation of China, has selected the Coriant 7090 Packet Transport Platform as the foundation for its packet-optimized communications infrastructure. The Coriant PTN solution for Shandong Electric Power spans access, aggregation, and core network segments and carries delay-sensitive utility communications traffic and applications, including supervisory control data, real-time...

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