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Archive for August, 2005

U.S. Broadband Policy?

Posted by Sam Churchill on August 23rd, 2005

“We do have have a coherent broadband policy…and it’s working”, said NTIA administrator Michael Gallagher this week.
In a panel discussion at the Progress & Freedom Foundation s Aspen Summit, Gallagher defended the Bush administration s efforts to promote the growth of broadband in the United States. The broadband policy was under assault from a number [...]

Intel On DVB-H

Posted by Sam Churchill on August 23rd, 2005

Intel is working with Crown Castle and DiBcom to demonstrate mobile broadcast TV functionality on Centrino and XScale platforms. In a series of commercial user trials in 2005 and 2006, the companies will work to develop better end-user experiences of standardized TV broadcast hardware and services across Intel platforms.

DiBcom SA, a small French startup, will [...]

WiBro Gets Laid

Posted by Sam Churchill on August 23rd, 2005

Korea’s leading telephone provider, KT Corp, has selected Siemens and Sycamore Networks to deliver a nationwide optical switching solution designed to support a variety of next-generation voice and high-speed data applications, including WiBro.
KT Corp will deploy the intelligent optical switching solution to increase the performance and scalability of its high-speed communications infrastructure.
KT [...]

WiMaxed Blackberry?

Posted by Sam Churchill on August 23rd, 2005

Pocket PC Thoughts reported yesterday that Research in Motion (RIM), makers of the popular Blackberry, and Intel have had agreed to a deal to use battery-saving chip technology from Intel. In return, Research in Motion will support Intel’s WiMax technology.”

If this report is [...]

Flarion & Netgear = Mobile Hotspot

Posted by Sam Churchill on August 23rd, 2005

Tom’s Networking and Wireless Week report that NETGEAR and Flarion today announced a Netgear wireless router with Flarion mobile broadband backhaul built-in.

NETGEAR s Wireless Mobile Broadband Router has a PC Card slot for the Flarion 1000 PC Card. Flarion supplies the [...]

Cisco + Intel

Posted by Sam Churchill on August 23rd, 2005

Intel and Cisco, today announced the Cisco-Intel Alliance, an expansion of their existing alliance to deliver enhance reliabilty and security on wireless LANs .
Cisco and Intel have jointly produced a new set of features, called Business Class Wireless Suite (pdf), designed for companies using Cisco’s Unified Wireless Architecture and Intel Centrino mobile [...]

Intel Developer Forum 2005

Posted by Sam Churchill on August 23rd, 2005

Intel Corporation CEO and President Paul S. Otellini told attendees at the Intel Developer Forum today that three new chips scheduled for the second half of 2006 will use a new architecture that will retire the Netburst architecture used by its Pentium 4 and Xeon chips. eWeek and Anandtech have complete coverage.
“Performance per watt” [...]

Public Service Bands

Posted by Sam Churchill on August 23rd, 2005

At the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials (APCO) convention in Denver this week, vendors of wireless gear rolled out their latest and greatest, touting the benefits of the 4.9 GHz public safety band.
New players in this band include Alvarion, which launched their BreezeACCESS 4900, an extension of its wireless broadband platform using the 4.9GHz [...]

WiMaxing Traffic Lights

Posted by Sam Churchill on August 22nd, 2005

The city of Lenexa, Kansas said Monday it is set to deploy city-wide pre-standard WiMAX service using Alvarion’s BreezeACCESS VL to connect buildings, cameras and traffic systems. The network isn’t for use by citizens. It is used to connect city buildings, track municipal vehicles, and other tasks. The [...]

Battle for Taipei: Vivato, WiMax Vrs Mesh

Posted by Sam Churchill on August 22nd, 2005

The City of Taipei which is building a huge, city-wide mesh network that covers some 90% of their 2.6 million population, is now looking into a WiMax overlay, reports the Taipei Times.
Meanwhile, Vivato and TW-Airnet announced they are installing 42 Vivato Base Stations throughout major cities in Taiwan, including Taipei, Kaohsiung, and Taichung [...]